Accidental poisonings most often involve these substances.
What are household chemicals?
Use of this substance can present with uphoria, relaxed inhibitions, increased appetite, dry mouth, and disoriented behavior, and occassionally excessive vomiting.
What is hashish/marijuana/ THC?
A chronic, progressive, and potentially fatal disease characterized by an inability to control alcohol consumption despite serious, adverse consequences to health, work, and relationships.
What is alcoholism?
This disease group commonly presents with abdominal pain, dark urine, loss of appetite, and jaundice.
What is hepatitis?
This emergency communication system can provide the caller's location.
What is E911?
A substance that neutralizes the effects of a poison or toxic substance.
What is an antidote?
AMS, miosis, and hypoventilation are common signs of this toxidrome.
What is opiate abuse?
Alcohol is this class of drug.
What is a CNS depressant?
This syndrome of medical problems is caused by HIV, a virus that destroys the body’s ability to fight infections.
What is Acquired Immunodeficency Syndrome (AIDS)?
The point at which the trachea splits into the right and left mainstem bronchi.
What is the carina?
BLS treatment for a patient with adequate ventilation after inhalation of a poison.
What is oxygen via NRB at 15 lpm?
MDMA is known as "Molly" in powder form and this when compressed into a tablet or pill.
What is Ecstasy?
Due to similar presentations, this type of cerebral bleed may be mistaken for alcohol intoxication.
What is a subdural hematoma?
This type protection must be used when encountering a patient with suspected tuberculosis (TB).
What is respiratory protection/ N-95 or HEPA mask?
Adequate ventilation requires adequate rate and this.
What is adequate volume?
This route of poisoning can have findings that are local, systemic, or both.
What is injection?
The term for this sign of IV drug abuse.
What are track marks?
The symptoms presenting during this stage of alcohol withdrawal can include, confusion,memory loss, tremors, and halluciantions.
What are delerium tremens (DTs)?
Term for pathogens that have developed the capability to resist standard antimicrobial drugs.
What are multidrug-resistant organisms?
This is the intrinsic conduction rate for the heart's main pacemaker.
What is the 60 - 100 conductions per minute?
The nationwide phone number to contact poison control.
What is 800-222-1222?
Motor disturbances, anxiety, paranoia, delusions of persecution, illusions and hallucinations, poor perception of time and distance known as a "trip" are signs of this drug class.
What are hallucinogens or psychodelics?
An alcohol-related chronic brain syndrome presenting with paralysis of the eyes, dementia, hypothermia, the inability to sort fiction from reality, and eventual coma.
What is Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome?
This hemorrhagic fever presents with high fever, severe headache, muscle pain and weakness, severe vomiting and diarrhea, unexplained severe hemorrhage, and has a 30% to 90% mortality.
What is ebola?
Paradoxical chest movement is experienced by patients with this type of injury.
What is flail chest?