Ch. 24

Question 1

Active rewarming

Answer 1

A technique of aggressively applying heat to warm the patients body

Question 2

Acute mountain sickness AMS

Answer 2

Typically occurs in people who rapidly ascend to 6600 feet or greater

Question 3

Conduction

Answer 3

Causes body heat to be lost through direct contact

Question 4

Convection

Answer 4

Causes cold air molecules that are in immediate contact with the skin to be warmed heated air molecules move away and cold ones take there place

Question 5

Evaporation

Answer 5

Process or liquid changing to a vapor

Question 6

Exercise-associated hyponatremia EAH

Answer 6

Also known as exertional hyponatremia and water intoxication

Question 7

Freezing cold injury(FCI)

Answer 7

Condition commonly called frostbite

Question 8

Generalized hypothermia

Answer 8

Results from an increase in the body’s heat loss a decrease in the body’s heat production or both

Question 9

Heat cramps

Answer 9

The least serious form of heat-related injury is muscle spasms or cramps

Question 10

Heat exhaustion

Answer 10

Extreme physical exertion in a hot humid environment can affect even an otherwise fit individual

Question 11

Heat stroke

Answer 11

Extreme form of hyperthermia

Question 12

High-altitude cerebral edema (HACE)

Answer 12

Occurs from the collection of an excessive amount of fluid in the brain tissue

Question 13

High-altitude pulmonary edema

Answer 13

Is a condition affecting the lungs and gas exchange

Question 14

Hyperthermia

Answer 14

High body temperature

Question 15

Hypothermia

Answer 15

Low body temperature <95 degrees

Question 16

Immersion hypothermia

Answer 16

Occurs from the lowering of the body temperature from immersion in cool or cold water

Question 17

Myxedema coma

Answer 17

Is complication that occurs late in the progression of hypothyroidism and can be fatal

Question 18

Nonfreezing cold injury

Answer 18

Which primarily refers to the conditions commonly known as immersion foot or Trench foot

Question 19

Passive rewarming

Answer 19

Is taking measures to prevent further heat loss and giving the patients body the optimum chance to rewarm itself

Question 20

Radiation

Answer 20

Most significant measure of heat loss. Which involves the transfer of heat from the surface of one object to the surface of another without physical contact

Question 21

Respiration

Answer 21

Breathing

Question 22

Thermoreceptor

Answer 22

Is responsible for sending nerve impulses to the hypothalamus indicating the temperature of the body

Question 23

Urban hypothermia

Answer 23

Occurs in those individuals who have a predisposition disability illness or medication usage that renders them more susceptible to hypothermia

Question 24

Water chill

Answer 24

Water conducts heat 240 times faster than air and conduction is the method of heat loss

Question 25

Wind chill

Answer 25

Process of wind speeding the cooling process