Respiratory Emergencies
The Human Body
Pharmacology
Patient Assessment
Medical Terminology
100

An odorless, colorless gas known as the "silent killer"

What is Carbon Monoxide

100

Where the upper airway ends and the lower airway begins, a structure also called the voice box

What is the Larynx

100

When a medication would be harmful to the patient and have no positive effect on the patient's condition, the medication would be considered...

What is Contraindicated 

100

The part of your assessment that identifies any life threats and assesses the patients ABC's

What is Primary Assessment

100

Low Blood Pressure

What is Hypotension 

200

Medical term for "wet" popping lung sounds

What is Rales or Crackles

200

There are this many vertebrae in the thoracic column

What is 12

200

The route Nitroglycerin would be administered

What is Sublingual 

200

We're assessing for these 3 findings while assessing the pulse and respirations

What is Rate, Rhythm, and Quality

200

Structures that are closer to the trunk

What is Proximal

300

Over ventilating with more force and rate than needed with a BVM may cause this

What is Gastric Distention

300

The only artery in the body that carriers deoxygenated blood

What is the Pulmonary Artery

300

The medication that prevents platelets from clumping given during chest pain and at a certain dosage

What is Aspirin 324mg (or 81mg Tabs x4)

300

The mnemonic that assists with history taking from the patient or a bystander 

What is SAMPLE

300

Fluid or blood building up in the pleuritic cavity

What is Hemothorax 

400

A disease that produces wheezing on inspiration/expiration due to an acute spasm of the bronchioles and excessive mucus production

What is Asthma

400

These are the 3 different muscles found throughout the human body

What is Skeletal, Smooth, and Cardiac

400

The difference between adult and pediatric Epi Pen doses

What is 0.3mg Epi Pen for Adults, 0.15mg Epi Pen for Pedi

400

A step within the patient's assessment process in which a systemic physical examination of the patient is performed 

What is Secondary Assessment 

400

The bottom surface of the foot

What is Plantar 

500

A pediatric pt presenting with SOB, high fever, stridor, and drooling, the EMT should suspect what?

What is Epiglottitis 

500

The part of the brain that controls respiratory rate base on CO2 levels in the blood and changes in the pH of the CSF

What is the Medulla Oblongata or Brainstem

500

A medication, like Heroine, that binds to a receptor and blocks other medications is called

What is an Antagonist

500

A patient who responds to responds to painful stimulus with a groan, has no verbal response, and localizes response to pain, would have a Glasgow Coma Score of 

What is 8
500

Describes the sections of the abdominal cavities 

What is Quadrants