AIRWAY OR NO WAY
This flap helps protect the airway during swallowing.
What is the epiglottis?
Before an advanced airway, adult CPR uses this compression-to-ventilation ratio.
What is 30 compressions to 2 breaths?
This medication reverses opioid effects, especially dangerous respiratory depression.
What is naloxone?
This is the first-line method for controlling most external bleeding.
What is direct pressure?
This word means toward the front of the body.
What is anterior?
Snoring in an unresponsive patient usually means this soft tissue is blocking the upper airway.
What is the tongue?
For an average adult, compress the chest at least this deep while avoiding excessive depth.
What is at least 2 inches, or 5 centimeters?
A conscious hypoglycemic patient who can swallow may receive this treatment.
What is oral glucose?
These are the two bones of the lower leg, located between the knee and ankle.
What are the tibia and fibula?
This word means closer to the trunk or point of attachment.
What is proximal?
Gas exchange happens across these tiny air sacs in the lungs.
What are the alveoli?
During adult CPR, rescuers should deliver chest compressions at this rate per minute.
What is 100 to 120 compressions per minute?
A severe allergic reaction involving the airway, breathing, or circulation is called this.
What is anaphylaxis?
Unless it blocks the airway or prevents CPR, an impaled object should generally be managed this way.
What is stabilize it in place?
This large organ sits mainly in the right upper abdominal quadrant.
What is the liver?
This dome-shaped muscle does most of the work during normal, quiet breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
Immediately after an AED delivers a shock, take this action.
What is resume CPR, starting with chest compressions?
This term describes a prolonged seizure or repeated seizures without the patient recovering between them.
What is status epilepticus?
Paradoxical movement of a section of the chest wall suggests this injury.
What is a flail chest segment?
The brain and spinal cord together make up this division of the nervous system.
What is the central nervous system?
This is the point where the trachea splits into the right and left mainstem bronchi.
What is the carina?
This chamber pumps deoxygenated blood toward the lungs.
What is the right ventricle?
The S-LAMS stroke assessment evaluates these four patient findings.
What are slurred speech, face droop, grip strength, and arm drift?
Severe breathing difficulty, hypotension, and absent breath sounds on one side should raise concern for this condition.
What is a tension pneumothorax?
Blunt trauma to the left upper abdomen can injure this blood-rich organ.
What is the spleen?