Chapter 36 Emergency Procedures and First Aid

Question 1

What is the best method for prioritizing emergency cases?

Answer 1

Triage

Question 2

Define Triage

Answer 2

A list with prioritizes patients who need to receive treatment immediately and those who can wait

Question 3

What is the last sense of a dying person?

Answer 3

A person will lose their hearing

Question 4

What is the Good Samaritan Law?

Answer 4

Protects all the people who are trained to do a procedure in a patient, from a. sue from the family.

Question 5

DNR

Answer 5

Do NOT Resuscitation

Question 6

Define Stertorous

Answer 6

Noisy abnormal breathing

Question 7

Quadriplegia

Answer 7

Paralysis of the Four Extremities

Question 8

Paraplegia

Answer 8

Paralysis of the Lower Extremities

Question 9

Hemiplegia

Answer 9

Paralysis of half of the body

Question 10

Tachypnea

Answer 10

Fast Breathing

Question 11

Bradypnea

Answer 11

Slow breathing

Question 12

MyoCardial Infraction (MI)

Answer 12

Is caused by complete obstruction on one or both of the coronary arteries or their branches

Question 13

First cause of Heart Attacks?

Answer 13

Atherosclerosis (te formation of fat plaques in the wall artery)

Question 14

Stroke can also be called?

Answer 14

Cerebovascular Accident
Cerebral Infraction

Question 15

Define Homostasis

Answer 15

The comprehension of the affected area to stop bleeding

Question 16

What is another word for a Nose Bleed?

Answer 16

Epistaxis

Question 17

Hypoglycemia

Answer 17

Low Blood Sugar

Question 18

Hyperglycemia

Answer 18

High Blood Sugar