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Finals Flashcards

1
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Is a situation which poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or environment.

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Emergency

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2
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protect those that have had basic first aid training and are certified.

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Good samaritan law

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3
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Is the impact of a natural or man-made hazard that negatively affects society or environment.

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Disaster

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4
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Types of Disaster

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  1. Natural
  2. Human-Caused
  3. Technological
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5
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encouraged to be involved in daily community activities as a health advisor.

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Nurses

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6
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Reducing potential disaster damages before a disaster threatens.

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Mitigation

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7
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Developing operational capabilities and facilitating an effective response before an emergency occurs

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Preparedness

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8
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Actions taken immediately before, during, or directly after an emergency occurs.

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Response

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9
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Most difficult disaster phase.

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Recovery

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10
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A process for sorting injured people into groups based on their need when resources are insufficient for all to be treated

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Triage

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11
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simple triage and rapid treatment

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Start

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12
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secondary assessment of victim endpoint

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Save

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13
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An intentional or unintentional wound or injury inflicted on the body from a mechanism against which the body cannot protect itself.

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Trauma

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14
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any force that penetrates or fractures the skull

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Direct trauma

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15
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severe forces that may shake or rotate the brain enough to cause permanent brain damage

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Indirect trauma

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16
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Classification of Trauma

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Direct, Indirect

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17
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Types of Trauma

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Acceleration, Blunt

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18
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occurs when the body is moving and strikes another moving or stationary object.

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Acceleration/Deceleration Trauma

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19
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occurs when an object strikes the body or head with force causing a compression of body tissues which results injury

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Blunt trauma

20
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Is an object entering the body or head due to an object striking the body, or the body being placed in motion and striking an object

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Penetrating Trauma

21
Q

a violent jarring or shaking that results in a disturbance of brain function

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Cincussion

22
Q

Pain at tip of left shoulder and left upper quadrant

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Kehr’s

23
Q

Abnormal sound or murmur along middle or lower back

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Bruit

24
Q

Fixes area of dullness when left quadrant abdominal quadrant is percussed

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Ballance’s

25
Q

Bluish color on blank

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Turner’s

26
Q

Purplish color around umbilicus

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Cullen’s

27
Q

Lumbar spine level

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Hematoma

28
Q

Abount one per minute

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Decreased peristaltic sounds

29
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Ecchymosis

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Coopernail

30
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Soft tissues injuries

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  1. Closed soft tissue injury
  2. Open soft tissue injury
31
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Kinds of Open Wounds

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  1. Puncture wound
  2. Laceration
  3. Abrasion
  4. Incision
  5. Avulsion
  6. Bites
32
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Virus transmitted by infected saliva through bite or wound

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Brain inflammation

33
Q

highly modified saliva

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Snake venom

34
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Local envenoming (swelling etc.) with bleeding/clotting disturbances

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VIPERIDAE (Syndrome 1)

35
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Ptosis, external ophthalmoplegia, facial paralysis etc. and dark brown urine

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Russell’s viper (Syndrome 2)

36
Q

Blow up a blood pressure cuff to 80 mm Hg and leave it on for 5 minutes.

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Hess’s test

37
Q

Manufactured by hyper immunizing horses against venoms of four standard snakes

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Polyvalent antivenin

38
Q

stored in a cool dark place & may last for 5 years

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Lyophilised form

39
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has to be stored at 4°c with much shorter life span

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Liquid form

40
Q

membrane active polypeptide that can cause degranulation of basophils and mast cells, constitutes more than 50 percent of the dry weight of bee venom

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Melittina

41
Q

Insulin has shown to improve cardiopulmonary status in case of scorpion envenomation

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Newer modality

42
Q

begins at the time of injury and concludes with restoration of capillary permeability.

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Emergent Phase/Resuscitative Phase

43
Q

when the person is hemodynamically stable, capillary
permeability has been restored and diuresis has begun

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Acute phase

44
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begins during the acute hospital stay, after the patient is stable

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Rehabilitative Phase

45
Q

the heart is still beating.

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Cardiovascular Collapse

46
Q

individual fascicles of the heart beat independently
rather than the usual coordinated, synchronized manner that produce rhythmic heartbeat.

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Ventricular Fibrillation

47
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the heart has stopped beating.

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Cardiac Standstill

NCM 118 (4 decks)

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