Trauma
The sudden loss of this amount of blood is considered serious in the average sized adult
What is 1,000 ccs?
Term to describe the presenting part of the baby visible at the vaginal opening
What is crowning?
A command organization in which a single agency controls all resources and operations
What is Single Incident Command?
Common name for sphygmomanometer
What is the blood pressure cuff?
The vessel with the thickest muscular walls that allow constriction and dilation
What are arteries?
The most effective way of controlling external bleeding
What is direct pressure (with a dressing)?
The most common cause of seizures in infants and children
What is fever?
Any substance or material in a form that poses an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and property with transported in commerce
What is hazardous material?
A color-coded tag indicating a patient's priority
What is a triage tag?
A flap of skin that is partially or completely torn away from the underlying tissue
What is an avulsion?
The percentage of the adult patient's body's surface area affected if one arm is burned
What is 9%?
The branch of medicine that deals with the cause, prevention, and treatment of obesity
What is bariatrics?
The area immediately surrounding a hazmat incidents
What is the Hot Zone?
Used almost exclusively on sucking chest wounds
What is an occlusive dressing?
A patient with jugular vein distension may be suffering from this injury
What is tension pneumothorax?
Proper procedure for opening the airway of an unresponsive trauma patient
What is the jaw thrust maneuver?
Appearance
Breathing
Circulation
What is the Pediatric Assessment Triangle?
Requires special equipment to reach and remove the patient
What is complex access?
Contains information about the properties of dangerous substances as well as information on safe distances, emergency care, and suggested procedures in the event of spills or fire.
What is the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG)?
The opening at the base of the skull
What is the foramen magnum?
The part of the body where most radiant heat is lost
What is the head?
The use of made-up experiences (generally in the geriatric population) to replace lost memories
What is confabulation?
Contact with a material that is present where it does not belong and that is in some way harmful to persons, animals, or the environment
What is contamination?
Device connected to an oxygen cylinder to reduce cylinder pressure for safe delivery of oxygen to a patient
What is a pressure regulator?
Where a constricting band should be placed to reduce the lymphatic flow after a venomous snake bite.
What is 2" above and 2" below the bite?