Heart of the Matter
The heart is an important muscle near the center of the upper chest that is the key component to THIS anatomical system
(starts with the letter "C")
CIRCULATORY system
or
we will also accept "CARDIO-VASCULAR"
Those who do well on the MCAT and get into medical school, successfully complete the many years of training (classroom, clinical, and residency), and then go on to work in the field of medicine are known as this
DOCTORS or PHYSICIANS
This is the BEST thing to use in most cases to clean a cut or wound in the field, rather than slathering it with triple antibiotic ointment
Large amounts of flowing/running WATER
This is the more technical name for a person's "pulse" which one can often easily find on the thumb-side of the arm just above the wrist (radial pulse) or part way down the neck to the side of the trachea (carotid pulse), measured in beats per minute
HEART RATE
If you are part of a group and then get lost in the woods beyond cell service, or lost at the hospital on a class fieldtrip without your cell phone, the most important action you can do in order to get found is this
STAY PUT
(i.e. do not wander off in search of the rest of the group, but let them backtrack to find you near your last known location)
There are four chambers of the heart, two above that receive blood arriving into the heart called ATRIA (right atrium and left atrium), and two below that pump blood out of the heart and onward to other organs of the body. These two lower chambers are the heart are called this
VENTRICLES
(right ventricle that pumps blood from the heart to the lungs, and left ventricle that pumps blood from the heart to the rest of the body)
I am known by a three-letter name, and I may work in an assisted living facility (like Avamere River Park), a hospital, or elsewhere. I do not diagnose diseases, pass medicines, or plan patient care, but I ASSIST others who do, helping patients with "Activities of Daily Living" like bathing, dressing, eating, and going to the bathroom. It takes several weeks training and passing a state exam to qualify for this important job
C.N.A. (Certified Nurse Assistant)
True or false: When taping up a foot for ankle stabilization, after wrapping the ankle with a skin protection layer, one should leave some gaps in the white tape covering the the wrap so that the protected foot can "breathe."
FALSE,
for such gaps would cause friction and leave behind blisters or even more serious skin injury
A stethoscope, a device to listen to internal body sounds, can be used to accurately count the heart rate (listening at the apex of the heart), to listen to heart, lung and bowel sounds, and when placed just above the elbow (in conjunction with a special cuff called a sphygmomanometer)
is used to measure THIS
BLOOD PRESSURE
According to "My Plate" nutritional guidelines, approximately THIS percentage of each meal should consist of fruits and vegetables
FIFTY percent
(i.e. half the plate)
When you measure an adult's heart rate, if their heart is beating at over 100 beats per minute while they are at rest, the term for that "fast heart rate" is known as this (starts with a "T")
TACHYCARDIA
I am not a medical professional, and I cannot give medicine or do medical procedures, but I am specially trained to provide personal emotional and physical comfort to pregnant people before, during, and after delivery, as well as to provide extra support, advice and advocacy during and after their pregnancy
DOULA
This is the name of a device that is tightened in the field to stop a large flow of blood hemorrhaging from a wound by entirely cutting off circulation to an extremity for a short period of time until the wounded person arrives at the ER
TOURNIQUET
One of the only times a health professional is allowed to lie to a patient is when measuring this type of vital sign while holding onto their hand and pretending to take their pulse but instead watching their chest
RESPIRATION RATE
(counting the number of respirations/breaths per minute)
Motivational Interviewing (talking to a patient, hoping to get them to change a behavior) involves 4 techniques that you can remember by "O.A.R.S.":
O="Open-ended questions"
A="Affirmations"
R="Reflective listening" and
S= THIS (what does "S" stand for?)
SUMMARY REFLECTION
When you measure an adult's pulse or "heart rate," if their heart is beating at less than 60 beats per minute while they are at rest, the term for that "slow heart rate" is known as this
BRADYCARDIA
I am not a doctor, but I work under the supervision of a doctor, and can do almost everything that doctors can do, writing prescriptions, working along side doctors in surgical procedures, or working independently in other contexts and only consulting with doctors
when second opinions are needed
PHYSICIAN'S ASSISTANT (P.A.)
also will accept
Nurse Practitioner (N.P.)
(not much difference between the two except the path to getting there)
After cleaning a cut thoroughly, one can safely tape it shut using bands perpendicular to the cut, moving from the center of the cut to its periphery, as long as the cut is no wider than or deeper than THIS AMOUNT
(the same measurement in both cases)
HALF AN INCH
A special medical device that is often placed on the end of a person's finger uses a red light and an infrared light to measure both the heart rate as well as the percentage of hemoglobin in the blood that is carrying oxygen (blood "saturation" or SpO2). This small electronic device is known as this
One of the most common and most deadly diseases in the US is known as C.O.P.D. (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), and the two main sub-categories of C.O.P.D. are (1) asthma, and (2) THIS, characterized by a destruction of the alveoli in the lungs, often caused by smoking
EMPHYSEMA
There are two components to a blood pressure reading, the first number representing SYSTOLIC blood pressure, the amount of pressure against which the left ventricle has to pump blood out of the heart, the second representing the pressure internal to the heart when it is in its resting phase and is called this
DIASTOLIC blood pressure
that represents the heart phase called
DIASTOLE (the heart at rest, as its chambers fill)
One type of "Traditional Health Worker," I am a frontline public health worker who is a trained member of the specific community served. I may share an ethnicity, a language, or a similar
lived experience with the community
I am specifically trained to work with
Community Health Worker
The most conclusive sign that there is an INFECTION in a wound
PUS
Give the "normal" human body temperature range in adults, in both fahrenheit and celcius, keeping in mind what Corey told us about these and other vital sign "norms" being somewhat suspect
since they were largely derived from measuring adult while male patients
97 F (=36.1 C) to 99 F (=37.2 C)
As compared to Body Mass Index (BMI), this is considered a better marker for the presence of health/disease
BLOOD PRESSURE,
BLOOD GLUCOSE,
and/or BLOOD LIPID LEVELS