Chapter 21 - Emergency Medical Care Procedures Flashcards
Who is anyone in military operations or activities?
Combatant
What is the process of quickly assessing in a multiple -casualty incident and assigning patients a priority (or classification) for receiving treatment according to the severity of the illness or injury?
Triage
Casualties whose injuries are critical but who will require only minimal time or equipment to manage and who have a good prognosis for survival are what class?
Priority 1
What type of accident, also known as stroke or apoplexy, is caused by an interruption of the arterial blood supply to a portion of the brain?
Cerebrovascular
What are characterized by severe and uncontrolled muscle spasms or muscle rigidity?
Convulsions
What is a condition characterized by an abnormal focus of activity in the brain that produces severe motor responses or changes in consciousness?
Epilepsy
What is a condition characterized by sudden onset, excessive skin irritation, painful erythema (redness of skin produced by congestion of the capillaries), bullae (large blisters), and exfoliation of the skin in sheets?
Toxic epidermal necrolysis
Heart conditions occur more commonly in men in what age group?
50-to-60
What is caused by insufficient oxygen being circulated to the heart muscle?
Angina
A heart suffering from prolonged hypertension, valve disease will try to compensate for decreased function by increasing the size of the left ventricular pumping chamber and increasing the heart rate. This condition is known as what?
Congestive heart failure
What is a severe allergic reaction to foreign material?
Anaphylactic shock
The general treatment for severe anaphylaxis is the subcutaneous injection of what amount of epinephrine and supportive care?
0.3cc
What is an inherited condition in which the pancreas secretes an insufficient amount of the protein hormone insulin?
Diabetes mellitus
What regulates carbohydrate metabolism be enabling glucose to enter cells for use as an energy source?
Insulin
What is the bleeding from lacerated blood vessels in the chest cavity and or lungs?
Hemothorax
What occurs when the baby’s legs and or buttocks emerge first during child birth?
Breech delivery
Have what readily available whenever administering opiates?
Naloxone
What is the most effective of all pain-relieving dugs?
Morphine
The adult dose of morphine is 10 to 20 mg, which may be repeated, if necessary, in no less than how many hours?
4
What wounds are torn, rather than cut?
Lacerations
What are caused by objects that penetrate into the tissue while a small surface opening’?
Punctures
What is the tearing away of tissue from a body part?
Avulsion
What is the escape of significant amounts of blood from the vessels of the circulatory system?
Hemorrhage
The average adult body contains about how many liters of blood?
5-6