Medical Flashcards
A patient with a LAMS score of three or more requires ALS transport to a comprehensive stroke center?
False
Lambs of four or five are ALS indicators
A FAST assessment requires the EMT to assess: face, arm, speech, and…?
Time
A Patient with chest pain and stable, vital signs that is less than __ years old does not require ALS intervention based on the symptoms.
40
A person who meets the right criteria for IM Eppinette friend administration has: analytic reaction, or anaphylaxis a known, or suspected trigger, and one or more of the following, except:
Profuse sweating
ALS indicators:
Food allergy, drug allergies, or insect sting
Hypotension
Progressive or diffuse hives
All the following are ALS indicators for stroke patients, regardless of the duration of the symptoms or LAMS, except:
Equal bilateral blood pressures
All of the following are symptoms of stroke, except:
Spinal pain
All suspected stroke patients must have:
A FAST exam
Blood glucose
Paramedic eval
Any patient receives Epinephrine should be transported to a hospital.
True
Mtech can administer Eppinette friend through the following methods:
IM
If a patient is hypothermic, their HR should be checked for:
One minute
If less than __ hours since symptoms onset, and the patient is transported by ambulance or aid car, SFD EMTs will contact the receiving emergency department.
Six hours
And if there is no change in the patient’s condition at__, consider a second dose of epi
Five minutes
If the patience time of last known well is less than 24 hours, the patient is previously independent, and the LAMS score is FOUR or more. The patient is likely having:
A severe stroke
IM injection of Epinephrine usually starts to produce results in about__in a healthy patient
1 to 4 minutes
Side effects of Epinephrine include all the following, except:
Hypotension
The compression rate for adult patient in cardiac arrest is:
100 BPM
The correct dose and concentration of epinephrine for an adult patient experiencing anaphylaxis is:
0.3mg/1:1000 epinephrine
The correct dose of Epinephrine, for a child is:
.015mg/1:1000 epinephrine
The six rights of drug administration are:
Right patient
Right drug
Right dose
Right time
Right route
Right documentation
The life pack can be used on patients as young as__years old
8
The __triage standard will be used to evaluate patience
Sick/not sick
Upon verification of a cardiac arrest that occurred before SFD arrival begin__minutes of chest compressions
2
Vital signs should be checked__epinephrine injection
Before and after
What are the absolute contraindications for Epinephrine in emergency settings?
There are no contraindications
What is not an AL S indicator?
Full thickness burns to fingers
When the medics arrive at a cardiac arrest you should?
Continue CPR until medics are ready to charge. Analyze shock with their lifepak.
Which of the following is an ALS indicator?
Hypoglycemia with decreased LOC
Which of the following symptoms would lead you to believe you have the right person when deciding whether to give epinephrine?
Respiratory distress
hypotension
facial swelling
diffuse and progressive hives
Which of the following are symptoms of stroke?
Confusion, trouble, speaking, or understanding
Severe headache without knowing cause
Trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance, or coordination
Trouble seeing in one or both eyes
Numbness or weakness in the face, arms, or legs, especially on one side of the body
Which of the following is not an ALS indicator?
Respirations greater than 24 BPM
ALS indicator: greater than 30 BPM
When using the check and inject kit, you should insert the bevel up at__degree
90
You must reassess and document the patient’s condition after Epinephrine injection every:
3 to 5 minutes
