Medical Overview

Question 1

What is CHF

Answer 1

Congested Heart Failure

Question 2

What are five steps of patient assessment?

Answer 2

Scene size-up
Primary assessment
History taking
Secondary assessment
Reassessment

Question 3

What to do you repeat during reessesment?

Answer 3

I’m very friendly:
Initial assessment
Vitals
Focused exam

Question 4

What is meningitis?

Answer 4

Inflammation of the meningeal coverings of the brain and spinal cord

Question 5

What is tuberculosis?

Answer 5

Chronic micro bacterial that usually strikes the lungs

Question 6

What is pertussis?

Answer 6

Whooping cause

Question 7

What is hantavirus?

Answer 7

Rare but deadly virus transmitted through rodent urine and droppings

Question 8

What is SARS?

Answer 8

Severe acute respiratory syndrome
Begins with flulike symptoms
May progress to pneumonia, respiratory failure, and, in some cases, death

Question 9

What is Hepatitis C caused by?

Answer 9

Cirrhosis of the liver

Question 10

What is hepatitis A caused by?

Answer 10

Food

Question 11

What are two medicines you give to a patient with chest pain?

Answer 11

Aspirin

Nitroglycerin

Question 12

How many baby aspirins do you give a patient?

Answer 12

4 tablets (324mg) (1 tablet is 81mg)

Question 13

What does aspirin do?

Answer 13

Prevents platelets from clotting

Question 14

What are three contraindications of aspirin?

Answer 14

Unconscious
Allergic
Have a bleeding ulcer

Question 15

What are four medications carried on an ambulance?

Answer 15

Aspirin
Epi pen
Glucose
Albuterol

Question 16

What do you give to a patient who is diabetic?

Answer 16

Glucose

Question 17

What does glucose do?

Answer 17

Raises blood sugar

Question 18

How much glucose do you give a patient?

Answer 18

The whole tube

Question 19

What are two contraindications of oral glucose?

Answer 19

If they are unconscious or can’t swallow

Question 20

What do you give the patient who is in anaphylaxis shock?

Answer 20

Epi pen

Question 21

How long do you hold the Epi pen in the skin

Answer 21

10 seconds

Question 22

What is another name for epinephrine?

Answer 22

Adrenalin

Question 23

Where do you give the shot for the Epi pen?

Answer 23

The thigh

Question 24

What do you give a patient with poisoning or overdose?

Answer 24

Activated charcoal

Question 25

How much of activated charcoal do you give an adult and child

Answer 25

50g for adult

25g for child

Question 26

What does activated charcoal do?

Answer 26

It adsorbs to the poison (binds to it so you puke)

Question 27

What do you give to a patient with asthma?

Answer 27

Albuterol or an MDI (meter dose inhaler)

Question 28

How much oxygen do you use with albuterol?

Answer 28

6-8 liters

Question 29

What do you see come out with albuterol

Answer 29

A mist

Question 30

What does albuterol do?

Answer 30

Opens the airway

Question 31

Why is nitroglycerin carried in a brown bottle?

Answer 31

It is sensitive to sunlight

Question 32

What’s the minimum systolic Bp a patient needs to use nitroglycerin?

Answer 32

120

Question 33

What does nitroglycerin do?

Answer 33

Dialates blood vessels

Drops bp

Question 34

Where do you give the patient nitroglycerin?

Answer 34

Under the tongue (sublingual)

Question 35

One spray of nitro glycerin equals how many pills?

Answer 35

One

Question 36

How many times can you give nitroglycerin to a patient and how far apart?

Answer 36

Maximum of 3 times at least five minutes apart

Question 37

What do you so every time you give a patient nitroglycerin?

Answer 37

Recheck vitals

Question 38

What are contraindications of nitroglycerin?

Answer 38

If patient used erectile dysfunction drugs within 72 hours

Or has a systolic blood pressure less than 120