Cardiology
The heart contains what four chambers?
What are Right Atrium, Right Ventricle, Left Atrium, and Left Ventricle?
The way in which traumatic injuries occur; it describes the forces acting on the body that cause injury.
What is Mechanism of Injury (MOI)
Hypoxic drive is influenced by..
What is Low Blood Oxygen Levels?
A simple, clear, non-proprietary name for a drug.
What is the generic name?
This assessment consists of appearance, work of breathing, and circulation.
What is the Pediatric Assessment Triangle?
The "normal" resting heart rate range for adults?
What is 60-100?
One of the most common mechanisms of injury for blunt traum.
What are falls?
The "normal" adult respiratory rate at rest.
In this route of administration, the medication is placed under the patient's tongue.
What is sublingual?
What is mottling?
This term means decreased blood flow.
What is ischemia?
An injury from the blast wave itself.
What is primary blast injury?
The physical act of moving air into and out of the lungs.
What is Ventilation?
These medications interfere with other blood clotting mechanisms in the body.
What are anticoagulants?
A picture scale to help determine pain rating in children.
What is the Wong-Baker FACES pain rating scale?
This systolic number is the minimum to be able to administer nitroglycerin.
What is 100mmHg?
Injury to more than one body system.
What is index of suspicion?
A partial or total accumulation of air in the pleural space.
What is a pneumothorax?
The use of multiple medications by the same patient.
What is polypharmacy?
The formula for determining the lowest expected systolic blood pressure in children 1-10 years.
What is 70 + (2x the child's age in years)?
What is the dosage of Aspirin given to a chest pain patient?
324 mg or 4 - 81mg tablets
The three collisions that occur in every crash.
What are 1) the collision of the vehicle against some type of object 2) the collision of the passenger against the interior of the vehicle 3) the collision of the passenger's internal organs against the solid organs of the body
Abnormal breath sounds such as wheezing, stridor, rhonchi, and crackles are known as...
What are adventitious breath sounds?
Name three of the rights of medication administration.
What are right patient, right medication, right dose, right route, right time, right education, right to refuse, right response, and right documentation.
Children often do this when seeing an oncoming vehicle, thus sustaining different injuries than an adult.
What is turn toward the vehicle?