🚪 Four Doors
A toddler drinks Grandma's blood pressure medication.
What is ingestion?
Several family members complain of headache, nausea, and dizziness. Their pulse oximeters all read 99%.
What is carbon monoxide poisoning?
In an opioid overdose, what usually kills the patient?
What is respiratory depression?
Your FIRST priority for any poisoned patient.
What are ABCs (airway, breathing, circulation)?
The antidote commonly carried by EMTs for opioid overdose.
What is naloxone?
A landscaper gets concentrated herbicide all over his arms.
What is absorption?
A patient has pinpoint pupils, respirations of 4, and a syringe nearby.
What is an opioid overdose?
Carbon monoxide ultimately kills by causing this.
What is cellular hypoxia?
The first thing you should do before treating someone exposed to toxic gas.
What is make the scene safe/remove the patient from the source?
The resource available 24/7 for treatment recommendations.
What is Poison Control?
A mechanic becomes dizzy while cleaning parts with solvents in a closed garage.
What is inhalation?
Burns around the lips and drooling after drinking drain cleaner.
What is a caustic ingestion?
Why are hydrocarbons especially dangerous?
What is aspiration leading to chemical pneumonitis?
A patient overdosed on opioids and is breathing four times per minute.
What's your FIRST intervention?
What is assist ventilations with a BVM?
This medication should NOT be given routinely for every ingestion and only when directed by protocol or Poison Control.
What is activated charcoal?
A heroin user is found with a syringe still in his arm.
What is injection?
A farmer has pinpoint pupils, sweating, drooling, wheezing, and vomiting after spraying pesticides.
What is organophosphate poisoning?
What is the biggest immediate concern after drinking drain cleaner?
What is airway swelling/burns?
Why shouldn't EMTs rely on pulse oximetry for suspected carbon monoxide poisoning?
What is because pulse oximeters cannot distinguish oxyhemoglobin from carboxyhemoglobin?
Mixing these two household cleaners can produce toxic chlorine gas.
What are bleach and ammonia?
A swimmer brushes against a jellyfish.
What is injection?
A patient from a house fire has soot around the mouth, hoarseness, and confusion.
What are smoke inhalation with possible carbon monoxide and cyanide poisoning?
Methanol poisoning can lead to this life-threatening metabolic problem.
What is metabolic acidosis?
An EMT accidentally becomes exposed to the same pesticide as the patient.
Which Rule was broken?
What is "Don't become Patient #2."
This alcohol is found in antifreeze and may lead to kidney failure.
What is ethylene glycol?