General Health & Medicine
The average human body temperature in Celsius
What is 37°C?
This profession evaluates psychosocial factors and links patients to community support, housing, and resources.
What is social work?
The largest artery in the body
What is the aorta?
This common healthcare communication tool organizes information into Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation.
What is SBAR?
The TV series featuring Dr. Meredith Grey and her surgical team
What is Grey’s Anatomy?
The body’s largest internal organ responsible for detoxifying the blood
What is the Liver?
This clinician specializes in preventing, assessing, and rehabilitating musculoskeletal injuries in physically active populations.
What is Athletic Training?
This heart structure initiates the electrical impulse that begins each cardiac cycle.
What is the SA node?
In healthcare settings, this written record serves as the primary means of documenting patient assessments, interventions, and outcomes.
What is the chart? (or “medical record”)
This wearable device popularized health tracking for heart rate, steps, sleep, and activity.
What is Fitbit or Apple Watch?
This chronic condition is the leading global cause of kidney failure.
What is diabetes?
(HTN acceptable as secondary)
Both can diagnose and prescribe. Their training differs because one follows the nursing model while the other follows the medical model.
What are a Physician Assistant and a Nurse Practitioner?
This valve prevents backflow of blood from the right ventricle into the right atrium.
What is the tricuspid valve?
This form of communication—using posture, facial expressions, and eye contact—often conveys more meaning than spoken words.
What is nonverbal communication?
This was the Chicago hospital setting for the TV series ER.
What is County General Hospital?
This lab value is the most reliable indicator of long-term blood glucose control.
What is the A1C?
This profession is uniquely trained to perform independent clinical triage, prioritizing multiple unstable patients at once using structured frameworks like the ABCs and acuity scoring.
What is Nursing?
This cranial nerve (CN X) regulates heart rate, digestion, and parasympathetic responses.
What is the vagus nerve?
Before a procedure, teams perform this brief, standardized pause to confirm the correct patient, procedure, and site.
What is a time-out?
In House, M.D., Dr. Gregory House leads a team specializing in this type of complex clinical work.
What is diagnostic medicine?
The CDC recommends this time window for administering thrombolytics in eligible ischemic stroke patients.
What is within 3–4.5 hours of symptom onset?
This branch of public health identifies patterns across place, person, and time to pinpoint causes of disease clusters and guide population-level interventions.
What is epidemiologic investigation?
(Also acceptable: analytic epidemiology)
These deep, rapid respirations occur as the body attempts to compensate for metabolic acidosis.
What are Kussmaul respirations?
This federal law protects patient privacy and governs how health information can be shared.
What is HIPAA?
This sci-fi franchise introduced “biobeds,” fictional diagnostic tables that scan patients without physical contact.
What is Star Trek?