Medication
This medication is a vasodilator
What is nitroglycerin?
This is the act of moving air in and out of the lungs
What is ventilation?
This is the medical term for hives
What is urticaria?
This is the opening in a tracheostomy
What is a stoma?
These are the components of Beck's Triad
What is muffled heart sounds, JVD, low BP?
This medication is OTC
What is Aspirin?
This is another word for skeletal muscle
What is striated muscle?
This is a type 2 diabetic hyperglycemic emergency
What is HHNS?
This is a MAJOR indication for an NPA/OPA
What are noisy/snoring/loud/gurgling respirations?
JVD, tracheal deviation, and diminished lung sounds on affected side are all late signs of this condition
What is a tension pneumo?
This medication is a bronchodilator
What is Atrovent/albuterol?
This is the term for red blood cells
What are erythrocytes?
This can be caused by excessive pressure in the lungs?
What is barotrauma?
These are the components of APGAR
What is activity, pulse, grimace, appearance, respirations?
This is the most common head injury in a rear-end collision
What is a coup-countrecoup injury?
This is how a drug works
What is MOA?
This is the act of oxygen exhange
What is respiration?
This is an unconscious state after a HUGE medical event
What is postictal state?
These are the components of GCS
What is eye opening, motor response, and verbal response?
This is inflammation/infection of the bones
What is osteomyelitis?
This is another name for ASA
What is Aspirin?
This is the connective tissue that surrounds every structure of the body
What is fascia?
This is the mneumonic used to remember S/S of cholinergic and organophosphate poisonings
What is SLUDGEM/DUMBBELLS? (You must list every S/S to earn the points)
high BP, low HR, low RR are all components of this triad
What is cushing's triad?
These are S/S of sickle cell crisis
What is chest pain, difficulty breathing, jaundice?