15
all electrocutions and lighting strikes are assumed to be in cardiac arrest until what is verified?
Effective breathing
Always consider that a patient's fall may be a result from what?
A medical problem
- fainting, heart arrhythmia, stroke...etc
What should you advise callers to be aware of in order to ensure their safety.
electrical risks and electrified water.
What is an extreme fall.
The patient has fallen from a distance of 30ft or higher.
False - I have favorite hues.
If you need to administer CPR in a lighting struck person, you have to administer compressions first.
False, you have to administer breaths first.
Protocol 31 should handle ground level falls caused by fainting, near fainting, or dizziness.
True
All electrical burns are considered to be worse than they look externally.
True
Dangerous, uncontrolled hemorrhage resulting from a ground level fall, should be handled under protocol 17 due to mechanism of injury.
False - it should be handled under protocol 21
what is it called when you drink to much water and get sick
Hyponatremia or overhydration
Explain the Lighting Strike Theory
What is the distance of a long fall for an Adult/Child and Infant.
*DOUBLE POINTS*
Adult/Child = 10-29ft
Infant = 6-29ft
Recite all of three EMD's laws.
*DOUBLE POINTS IF ALL SAID*
1.) Don't create more victims at the scene.
2.) Don't get it on you or even touch it.
3.) One patients, trouble around? Two patients down, coincidence found? Three patients down, danger abounds!
What is a major goal of rescue and treatment
Prevention of permanent nerve injury
What so I get from tropical smoothie and what does it contain.
I get an avocolada and it has avocado, pineapple, spinach, kale, coconut and lime.
Name the problem suffixes for protocol 15.
E = electrocution
L = lighting
Falling on and down the stairs is considered a ground level fall.
False, falling down the stairs is more serious and can cause more injuries than a ground level fall.
What may complicate a patients status?
Hidden Exits wounds and internal injuries.
Recite the first law of ground level falls.
The fall is the “chicken”, the arrest, its “egg”.
is this question rigged
yes
What is the difference between direct strike and contact injury.
DS- Victims may sustain a direct strike, which is often fatal.
CI - This occurs when lightning strikes an object, such as a car or metal pole, that the victim is touching.
Name all the problem suffixes.
A=Accessibility concerns/difficulty
E=Environmental problems (rain, heat cold)
G= On the ground or floor
J= Jumper (suicide attempt)
P= Public Place (street, parking garage, market)
If a caller advises you that the patient has fallen but you are already more than halfway through your protocol 15 questions what should you do.
Still complete the protocol 15 but you answer all the KQ's to ensure that the fall is adressed.
Only in ProQA when is a spinal injury suspected.
Abnormal breathing
Diving accident (or jumping into water from a height)
Extreme or long fall has occurred
Massive facial or head injury present
No pain or movement below injury
Tingling sensation or numbness in extremities
Unconsciousness at a trauma scene
What does micturate mean?
It means to pee.