Life threatening emergencies
This is the medical term for high blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
This is the medical term for frostbite
What is hypothermia?
Double points: This is the reason we do NOT want to squeeze the bee stinger with tweezers when removing it from our skin.
What is it will squeeze venom into the skin.
In which stage of HIV is a person most contagious?
What is stage 1?
What virus is cytomegalovirus related to?
What is herpes.
DOUBLE POINTS: This is how we treat an opioid overdose.
What is with NARCAN.
After this amount of time, a seizure becomes life threatening.
What is five minutes?
Describe what an aneurysm is.
What is a bulge in the wall of an artery that causes part of the artery to weaken?
The reason why sweetness on a person's breath be a bad thing?
What is it could point to dangerously high blood sugar or diabetes.
These two groups of individuals are at an increased risk of developing heatstroke
who are those 65+ (+/- 1) and those 4 (+/- 1) and under.
This is the reason we give aspirin to those having a heart attack
What is because it's a blood thinner.
This substance is created when you mix bleach with vinegar?
What is chlorine?
This type of stroke involves the bursting of a blood vessel in the brain.
What is a Hemorrhagic stroke?
This is the reason why humidity is a risk factor for heat stroke.
What is because your sweat doesn't evaporate
DOUBLE POINTS: This is the term given to describe the PAIN a person feels as a result of a partially clogged artery. It's a WARNING that a heart attack may be in their future unless they modify their lifestyle.
What is angina?
An aneurysm can occur anywhere, however the two main places they occur are the XXXXX and the XXXXX.
where are the aorta and brain?
When treating someone for heat stroke, these are 4 four places we should place cool compresses.
What is the back of neck, armpits, groin, and forehead?
At what temperature does a person officially have heat stroke, and what thermometer should be used in assessing this?
What is104 degrees and a rectal thermometer
DOUBLE POINTS: This STD causes weakening of the arteries and if untreated can result in an aneurysm.
What is syphilis?
What is BRADYCARDIA and what is TACHYCARDIA?
What is a SLOW heart rate and a FAST heart rate
When has HIV considered to have progressed to AIDS?
What is when CD4 cells have fallen below 200.
DOUBLE POINTS: This fracture is the WORST and most severe one since the bone is shattered.
What is a comminuted fracture?
There are two conditions that atherosclerosis can lead to. What is one?
What is heart attack or stroke.
This is the medical (and difficult to say) term given to the clogging of the arteries due to fatty plaques.
What is Atherosclerosis?
DOUBLE POINTS: What is an opportunistic infection?
What is one that does not NORMALLY cause severe disease but overtakes the body when it's weak?