Emergency situations
DOUBLE POINTS: This STD can increase a person's risk of having an aneurysm.
What is syphilis?
This is the LAST step of applying a tourniquet
What is mark the time
DOUBLE POINTS: This is the term for a person whose temperature is too high
What is hyperthermia?
This is the sugar found in milk
What is lactose?
Term used to describe the pain felt due to a partially clogged artery.
What is angina?
A bite from a lone star tick can cause an allergy to this food...
What is red meat?
If you see a person get roofied at a party, what should you do FIRST?
- Get the person to a safe place/away from the person that roofied them
Double points: How do you treat someone having a grand mal seizure?
What is you protect their head, no not restrain them, time the seizure, and roll them onto their side when convulsions lessen
These microscopic, finger-like projections of the small intestines are responsible for absorbing nutrients and are what are attacked in celiac disease.
What are villi?
What is the treatment for celiac disease?
A 100% gluten free diet
This is where you administer abdominal thrusts to a pregnant woman
What is slightly above the "baby bump" and/or slightly below the breasts.
DOUBLE POINTS: What are ALL six steps of CPR, in order?
what is:
(1) try to wake, (2&3) check breathing/pulse (4) 30 compressions, (5) open airways, (5) provide two breaths
What is Oral allergy syndrome?
Allergic reaction that affects the lips, mouth and throat.
DOUBLE POINTS: This is the law that allows a mother to drop her baby off at a hospital within 30 days of giving birth without being prosecuted for abandonment.
What is the safe haven law?
DOUBLE POINTS: What is hepatitis?
What is "A virus that attacks the liver"
This condition is characterized as "A bulge in the wall of an artery that causes part of the artery to balloon and break"
What is an Aneurysm?
What is atherosclerosis?
What is fatty plaques in the arteries.
This is a condition in which the immune system is overactive and accidentally attacks and kills healthy tissue
What is an autoimmune disease?
DOUBLE POINTS: This theory or hypothesis states that the act of over sanitizing is increasing the prevalence of allergies.
What is the hygiene hypothesis?
Why can sweetness on a person's breath be dangerous?
What is it can mean they have dangerously high blood sugar?
Complete the sentence:
An ALLERGY involves the BLANK system
A SENSITIVITY involves the BLANK system
Immune, digestive
What is one thing we should NOT say to a friend that is experiencing relationship abuse?
Do not:
-Lecture them
-Bad mouth their partner
-Make jokes
-Minimize their abuse
-Blame them for staying
This is the cause of lactose intolerance.
What is the body runs out of lactase and so can no longer digest lactose.
What's the FIRST and most important thing to do for someone having a grand mal seizure?
Take note of the time.
What is it called when an allergic reaction extends to other things with similarly shaped proteins
Cross reactivity