The Living Machine
Airway & the Physiology of Breathing
Energy & Trauma
Common Medical Abbreviations
The Thing Beating Inside Your Chest
100
This gives us recognizable human form and protects our vital internal organs.
What is our Skeleton?
100
The ________ folds over the glottis to prevent aspiration of contents into the trachea.
What is the Epiglottis?
100
This is the way in which traumatic injuries occur.
What is the Mechanism of Injury (MOI)?
100
This is what the abbreviation ETOH stands for.
What is Ethyl Alcohol?
100
This side of the healthy adult heart contains more muscle tissue.
What is the Left Side?
200
This system is responsible for maintaing form and upright posture.
What is the Musculoskeletal System?
200
This is the approximate amount of "dead space" found in an adult airway.
What is 150cc's?
200
In penetrating trauma, the path the projectile takes is known as the ______.
What is the Trajectory?
200
This is what the abbreviation AMA stands for.
What is Against Medical Advice?
200
The volume of blood ejected with each ventricular contraction is known as this.
What is Stroke Volume?
300
This is the primary muscle involved in making the lungs expand and contract.
What is the Diaphragm?
300
Name the structure that marks the end of the upper airway and the beginning of the lower airway.
What is the Larynx?
300
Bleeding characterized by bright red blood spurting in time with the patients pulse is from this blood vessel.
What is an Artery?
300
This is what the abbreviation ROM stands for.
What is Range of Motion?
300
This allows cardiac cells to contract spontaneously.
What is automaticity?
400
List the common name for the Glenohumeral Joint.
What is the Shoulder?
400
The trachea divides at the level of the _______ to form the right and left mainstem bronchi.
What is the Carina?
400
This is the ideal level trauma facility for a patient transected at the waist.
What is trick question Mother Flower? BLS presume that bad Mama Jama on scene and go get dinner.
400
This is what the abbreviation LMP stands for.
What is Last Menstrual Period?
400
Name the valve allowing blood to flow from the Right Atrium to the Right Ventricle.
What is the Tricuspid or the Right Atrioventricular Valve?
500
Name the artery responsible for the pulse felt behind the knee.
What is the Popliteal artery?
500
The ______ nerve innervates the diaphragm muscle, allowing it to contract.
What is the Phrenic nerve?
500
Your patients eyes open and he moans in response to a deep sternal rub, you also note that he attempts to move your hand from his chest. This is your patients calculated GCS.
What is 9? (E2V2M5)
500
This is what the abbreviation IUD stands for.
What is Intrauterine (Contraceptive) Device?
500
Name the two branches off the Left Main Coronary Artery (LMCA).
What are the Left Anterior Descending (LAD) and the Left Circumflex Artery (LCA) coronary arteries?