Cradle Carry or Croup
The term for the common viral infection in children causing a "seal-bark" cough and stridor on inspiration
What is Croup?
When assessing an elderly patient, the EMR should conduct this type of assessment on all patients, regardless of chief complaint.
What is a complete secondary assessment (or head-to-toe)?
The stage of labor that begins with regular contractions and ends when the cervix is fully dilated.
What is the First Stage (or Dilation Stage)?
The most important rule of good body mechanics, which states you should lift using these large muscle groups.
What are the legs and buttocks (large muscles)?
The type of cervical collar that is inappropriate for trauma patients due to insufficient support.
What is a Soft Cervical Collar?
The term for the unexpected death of an infant for which no adequate scientific explanation exists.
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)?
An older adult is more likely to use this type of method when attempting suicide, resulting in a higher success rate than younger patients.
What are more lethal means (like firearms or hanging)?
The stage of labor that begins when the baby enters the birth canal and ends when the baby is born.
What is the Second Stage (or Expulsion Stage)?
The specific type of spinal injury stabilization device used to immobilize a patient found in a seated position before being moved to a long backboard.
What is the Short Backboard (or K.E.D.)?
The non-emergency carry best used for moving a patient from the ground to a stretcher, involving one rescuer at the arms and one at the legs.
What is the Extremity Lift?
The primary reason an EMR should never lie to a child about a painful procedure.
What is lying to a child destroys trust?
Also acceptable: What is decreases/damages rapport?
Three key elements that must be documented when an EMR uses restraints on a patient.
What are: 1) The reason for the restraint, 2) The type of restraints used, and 3) The time the restraints were applied?
The most critical action the EMR must take immediately after a newborn is delivered.
What is ensuring the newborn is breathing adequately and keeping the newborn warm?
The term for the non-emergency transfer method that uses the patient's own bedding to slide them from a bed to a stretcher.
What is the Draw Sheet Method?
The overall term for the general determination of the child's status that the three PAT components help the EMR form.
What is the general impression?
In a small, cooperative child, the order in which an EMR should perform a full physical assessment.
What is the toe-to-head assessment?
The life-threatening complication of securing a combative patient face-down (prone).
What is Positional Asphyxia?
Two common signs and symptoms of preeclampsia in a pregnant patient.
What are high blood pressure and protein in the urine (and swelling)?
There are three main conditions that justify using an emergency move (like a drag) instead of a standard move. One is that the scene is hazardous, this is another one.
What are: 2) The patient requires immediate repositioning (for care), and 3) You must reach another patient requiring lifesaving care?
The three conditions that must be addressed (documented, reported, and followed up) when abuse or neglect is suspected in any special population.
What are the findings (physical evidence), the type of abuse, and any statements made by the patient or caregiver?
This highly fatal viral infection in young children, which causes a "cherry red" epiglottis, has been drastically reduced due to the Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine.
What is Epiglottitis?
The medical term for the abnormal accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity, often seen in older adults with advanced liver failure.
What is Ascites?
This famous 17th-century French midwife is often credited with discovering the correct lying-on-side position for a laboring mother, which helps in the delivery process.
Who is Justine Siegemund (or Louise Bourgeois)?
This famous historical figure, born in 300 B.C. and regarded as the "Father of Orthopedics," designed the Scamnum, an early traction device for skeletal injuries.
Who is Hippocrates?
In a case of severe newborn hypothermia, the best initial strategy for core rewarming is applying this.
What is swaddling in thermal blanket/material?
Also acceptable: Place in radiant heat source/incubator)?