Medical Investigation
Where was Anna Garcia's body found?
Gentry Life Science building.
What is the technical term for "The ability to understand and share the feelings of another person."
What is empathy?
What type of immunity is a "Non-specific immune defense mechanisms that we are born with. These mechanisms work to keep anything outside of us from coming in."
A) Innate
B) Acquired
What is Innate?
Name two members of an emergency response team
What is the technical name for someone who draws blood?
What is a phlebotomist?
Are lie detector results permisable in a court of law?
No.
What is the technical term for a "patient’s description of what they feel is their main health problem. "
What is a chief complaint.
Anything that stimulates an immune response.
What is an antigen?
"the process used to rapidly determine any health conditions that may be life threatening to your patient."
What is a primary assessment?
What job "Processes a scene of a possible crime including documenting the scene through observations, notes, sketches, and photographs. Evidence is then collected, cataloged, and delivered to the appropriate labs?"
Forensic Technician
What is Locard's Exchange Principle?
"...every time you make contact with another person, place, or thing, it results in an exchange of physical materials."
Is this a violation of HIPPA? "At the age of 35, a patient is diagnosed with the flu. The patient is hospitalized with severe symptoms but recovered with no problems. Their doctor reports their illness to the local department of public health."
No
What type of contact is a "Disease transmission that occurs when a susceptible host inhales infected particles, touches an infected object, or is bitten by an infected insect?"
What is indirect contact?
What are the ABC's of a primary assessment
1) Airway
2) Breathing
3) Circulation
What is a "a specialist trained to work in the front line of a healthcare system and provide care for any health problems that a patient might have."
What is a Primary Care Physician (PCP)
This scientists' image of X-Ray Diffraction won them a Nobel Peace prize after their death.
Who is Rosiland Franklin
What is another name for a red blood cell.
What is an erythrocyte?
People
Animals
The environment
To tie-off a broken vein with suturing thread.
What is ligate?
What is "a doctor that specializes in the research, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of blood disorders?"
What is a hematologist?
What type of print is a "print left on a surface by the oils on one's skin, and such a print is not usually visible to the naked eye."
Latent Print
What is the equation for Body Mass Index (BMI)
=weight(lb)/height(in)*703
What is an "Living, microscopic, single-celled, eukaryotic, animal-like organism?"
What is a protist?
What are the 4 triage categories?
emergent,
urgent,
semi-urgent,
and non-urgent
What is the profession of "someone who studies viruses, to model herd immunity?"
What is a virologist?