Chapter 15 Medical Overview

Question 1

Respiratory emergencies

Answer 1

Asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis

Question 2

Cardiovascular emergencies

Answer 2

Heart attack (myocardial infarction), cognitive heart failure.

Question 3

Neurologic emergencies

Answer 3

Seizures, strokes, syncope

Question 4

Gastrointestinal emergencies

Answer 4

Appendicitis, diverticulitis, pancreatitis

Question 5

Urologic emergences

Answer 5

Kidney stones, bladder infections

Question 6

Endocrine emergencies

Answer 6

Diabetes mellitus

Question 7

Hematologist emergencies

Answer 7

Sickle cell disease, hemophilia

Question 8

Immunologic emergencies

Answer 8

Anaphylactic reaction

Question 9

Toxicological emergencies

Answer 9

Substance abuse; food, plant, or chemical poisoning

Question 10

Behavioral emergencies

Answer 10

Alzheimer disease, schizophrenia, depression, suicide

Question 11

Gynecologic emergencies

Answer 11

Vaginal bleeding, STD, pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy

Question 12

A disease that can be spread from one person or speices to another

Answer 12

Communicable disease

Question 13

Occurs when new cases of disease in a human population substantially exceed the number expected based on experience

Answer 13

Epidemic

Question 14

A common virus that is asymptomatic in 80% of people carrying it but characterized by small blisters on the lips or genitals in symptomatic infections

Answer 14

Herpes simplex

Question 15

Awareness that unseen life threatening injuries or illnesss may exist

Answer 15

Index of suspicion

Question 16

A medical condition caused by the growth and spread of small, harmful, organisms within the body

Answer 16

Infectious disease

Question 17

A virus that has crossed the animal/ human barrier and infected humans and that kills thousands of people every year

Answer 17

Influenza

Question 18

Emergencies that are not caused by a outside force; illness or conditions

Answer 18

Medical emergencies

Question 19

An Inflimation of the meningeal coverings of the brain and spinal cord; it is usually caused by a virus or bacterium

Answer 19

Meningitis

Question 20

An inflammation of the meningeal coverings of the brain and spinal cord; can be highly contagious

Answer 20

Meningococcal meningitis

Question 21

A bacterium that can cause infections in different parts of the body and is often resistant to commonly used antibiotics; it is transmitted by different routes including respiratory route and can be found on the skin in surgical wounds in the bloodstream, lungs, and urinary tract

Answer 21

Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

Question 22

The general type of illness a paitent is experiencing

Answer 22

Nature of illness

Question 23

An outbreak that occurs on a global scale

Answer 23

Pandemic

Question 24

Emergencies that are the result of physical forces applied to the body; injuries.

Answer 24

Trauma emergencies

Question 25

A chronic bacterial disease, caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis, that usually affects the lungs but can also affect other organs such as the brain and kidneys; it is spread by cough and can lie dormant in a persons lungs of decades and then reactivate

Answer 25

Tuberculosis

Question 26

The strength or ability of a pathogen to produce disease

Answer 26

Virulence

Question 27

8 infectious diseases of concern for ems personnel

Answer 27

HIV, hepatitis b, meningitis, tb, H1N1, MERS-CoV, COVID 19, ebola

Question 28

Three routes of infection for hepatitis

Answer 28

Fecal-oral, infected food or drink, sexual contact