Symptoms of an Illness
A common long-term condition that can cause coughing, wheezing, chest tightness and breathlessness.
What is Asthma?
A person who assists nurses in a hospital by performing general services (as making beds, giving baths, or taking vital signs).
What is a Nurse's Aide?
a medical instrument for listening to the action of someone's heart or breathing, typically having a small disk-shaped resonator that is placed against the chest, and two tubes connected to earpieces.
What is a Stethoscope?
What BSI stands for.
What is body substance isolation?
The bluish, gray skin coloring resulting from asphyxia.
What is cyanosis?
A lifelong condition that causes a person's blood sugar level to become too high.
What is Diabetes?
A person who is professionally qualified to prepare and dispense medicinal drugs.
What is a Pharmacist.
A medical instrument used by practitioners to test deep tendon reflexes.
What is a reflex hammer.
Falls from ladders, bent steering wheels, a knife laying next to a patient.
What are mechanisms of injury?
Pulse, blood pressure, respiration, and relative skin temperature.
What are vital signs?
This occurs when a person drinks a toxic amount of alcohol, usually over a short period of time (binge drinking).
What is Alcohol Poisoning?
An expert on diet and nutrition.
What is a Dietitian.
An instrument, typically a small flat piece of wood, used by health practitioners to press down the tongue in order to allow inspection of the mouth or throat.
What is a tongue depressor.
What the crew should be looking for while en route and arriving at a scene.
What is scene safety?
What the patient tells you he or she is feeling.
What is a symptom?
A severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction that can develop rapidly.
What is Anaphylaxis?
Work carried out by trained personnel with the aim of alleviating the conditions of those in need of help or welfare
What is a Social Worker?
Disposable item used during medical examinations and procedures.
What are Gloves.
What you would do if you observe potential signs of violence at a scene.
What is retreat to a position of safety.
60 to 80 times per minute.
What is the average pulse rate for an adult?
A serious, life-threatening medical condition that occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off.
What is a Stroke?
A person whose job is to keep or inspect financial accounts.
What is an Accountant?
This can be used to check areas of the mouth and throat, examine wounds and to assess pupil response.
What is a Pen Light.
What MOI stands for.
What is Mechanism of Injury
Taken for thirty seconds and multiplied by 2. (2 things)
What are pulse and respiratory rates?