Health Professions
This professional helps patients recover movement and strength after an injury or illness through exercises and physical treatments.
What is a physical therapist?
This body system allows you to breathe by bringing oxygen into the body and removing carbon dioxide.
What is the respiratory system?
CPR stands for...
What is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?
The disease that wiped out 30-60% of Europe's population in the 14th century.
What is the bubonic plague/black death/black plague?
This disease causes high blood sugar because the body doesn't make enough insulin or can't use it properly.
What is diabetes?
This professional prepares and dispenses medications and teaches patients how to use them safely.
What is a pharmacist?
This system includes the brain, spinal cord, and nerves and controls communication throughout the body.
What is the nervous system?
AED stands for...
What is automated external defibrillator?
Known as the "Father of Medicine," this ancient Greek rejected the idea that evil spirits caused disease.
Who is Hippocrates?
The influenza virus causes this contagious respiratory disease.
What is the flu?
This professional uses imaging techniques such as MRI and CT scans to help diagnose diseases and injuries.
What is a radiologist?
This organ produces insulin, which helps regulate blood sugar.
What is the pancreas?
A patient has a severe allergic reaction and is having trouble breathing. The medication commonly given immediately is...
What is Epinephrine (adrenaline)?
She founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and provided crucial aid to soldiers on the battlefield.
Who is Clara Barton?
This disease causes airway inflammation and can make breathing difficult, often with wheezing.
What is asthma?
This professional helps patients improve their ability to speak, communicate, and swallow.
What is a speech-language pathologist?
This system protects the body from pathogens and includes organs such as the lymph nodes, spleen, and thymus.
What is the immune/lymphatic system?
The “A” in ABC’s of emergency care stands for...
What is airway?
This German physicist discovered X-rays in 1895.
Who is Wilhelm Röntgen?
This bacterial infection primarily affects the lungs and can spread through the air.
What is tuberculosis (TB)?
This professional specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases of the kidneys and may care for patients receiving dialysis.
What is a nephrologist?
This system uses hormones released into the bloodstream to regulate functions such as metabolism, growth, and reproduction.
What is the endocrine system?
Triage determines...
Which patients need medical attention first?
He developed the first safe and effective polio vaccine, announced in 1952.
Who is Jonas Salk?
This disease occurs when the immune system attacks the body's own tissues, with symptoms often including joint pain and fatigue.
What is rheumatoid arthritis?