Segment 1 Flashcards
Diff between somatic and visceral pain
Somatic: superficial, either sharp and well localized or dull/aching poorly locatlized accompanied by N/V
Visceral: Internal organs, abdomen or Skelton. Poorly localized use to lesser number of receptors. Often radiates away from site or is referred.
Describe the functions of Cardiac Cycle
Systole
- contraction of ventricles (AV valves close)
- Relaxation of atria
Diastole
- Relaxation of ventricle (semilunar valve close)
- Contraction of atria (atrial kick)
Pulse Pressure
- the diff between systolic and diastolic pressure
- norm about 40mmHg
Sounds
- S1 (LUBB)
- turbulance created by closing of the AV valves (mitral & tricuspid)
- S2 (DUBB)
- turbulence created by the closing o the semilunar valves (pulmonary and aortic)
Somatic neurons innervate _____ muscle
Skeletal (S&S)
Describe the following P’s
Polyphasia: Split personality
Polydipsia: incre thirst
Polyphagia : incre hunger
Polyuria: incre urine output
In systemic circulation, it is beleived that ____ return to the heart ________ during inspiration through the combined effect of the fall in intrathoracic pressure and squeezing of the splanchnic veins by diaphragm descent
Venous, increases
*helps return blood in venous system to the heart
*
Diff between Visceral and Somatic Senses
Visceral:
- generally wake are unaware of
- control/reaction mechanisms to internal environment
- BP, digestion, HR
Somatic
- information and stimulus we receive from outside environment
- pressure, heat, wind, body position
- most reactions to these stimuli are processed in the spinal cord
What rate is urine filtered through the kidneys?
125ML/min
9-% reabsorebed
Emergency medical aid act
- Good Samaritan
- protects if help outside of job hours
What are the 5 sub tissue types of Conn tissue?
1-loose 2-dense 3-cartilage 4-bone 5-blood
Describe the 3 pigments of the skin
1) Melanin:
- varies from pale yellow to black
- seen most in muscous membrances, penis, nipples, aeriola, face, lips and iris
- amount is equal in all races
- accumulation of melanin results in skin pacthes (freckles, liver spots)
2) Carotene:
- yellowish orange pigment that gives carrots and egg yolks color
- precursors to vit A
3) Hemaglobin:
- pigment carriers oxygen in RBC’s
- COLOR varies in white ppl due to amount of blood moving through capillaries in the dermis
- affected by the composition of blood level
What are kussmaul respiration’s?
Abnormal pattern of breathing shown by deep, rapid, laboured resps
Describe pathophysiology
Functional changes brought on by disease, injury or aging
How are nerve impulse perpetuated?
By overcoming negative electro-chemical gradient
Na and K across cellular membrane to achieve action potential
What are the 3 neuron types?
1) Sensory:
- forms after EMT divisions of PNS
- conveys info from internal and external environments
- connects sensory reception in peripheral tissue with brain/spinal cord
* proprioceptors monitor joints and skeletal muscle mvmt
* Visceral receptions monitor digestion’s, resp, CV, urinal, repro, taste, pain and pressure
2) Motor:
- forms efferent and division, carriers info from CNS to other organs and tissues
* somatic motor neurons innervate skeletal muscle
* visceral motor neurons innervate peripheral sites
3) Interneurons:
- found only in brain and spinal cord
- connect neurons and responsible for distributing sensory infor and coordinating motor activity
What is Pneumonia?
- Acute Inflammation of the lun, alveolar spaces and interstitial tissue as a result of virus, bacteria, or fungi.
- Symtpoms (chills, fever, dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, cough, crackles, wheezing
- Consider infection with TB in patients presenting with pneumonia like symptoms
What is “the ability of the nerve to respond to a stimulus and convert it to a nerve impulse?
Excitability
Describe Nervous tissue
-helps run all processes in the body by initiating and conduction action potentials throughout the body, mainting homeo and coordinating all body functions
What is the Bi carbonate buffer system?
CO2 + H2- == H2CO3 == Ht +HCO3
Negligence and Gross
Neg: not doing the task required or doing it incorrectly
Gross: causes potential harm to pt
Describe pathology
Branch of medicine dealing with the nature of disease
How much urine can a bladder hold?
700-800 mL
What is a determinate for Ph in the blood?
C02
What is atelectasis?
collapse of aveiolis
Diff between Parasympathetic and Sympathetic nervous system
Para:
- Rest and Digest
- maintains homeostasis
- breaks down, absorbs and stores energy
- connect to CNS through certain cranial nerves thro0ugh middle and sacral area of spinal cord
- main regulator of heart, GI, digestive, glands and endocrine glands
- neurotrasnmisttter- ACh
Symp
- flight or flight
- 4 E’s
- exercise
- excitement
- emotion
- emregency
- times of high production and usage of ATP
- connected to CNS through thoracic and upper lumbar area of spinal cord
- neurotransmitter -EPI and NE
Are the openings directly after or before the aortic valve?
After
- open during diastolic
- closed during systolic
Where do pathogens originate from?
1-Humans
2-Animals
3-non living sources (ambulance equip)
3 components of medical control
1-online medical control: ME available phone to provide advice to EMS crew
2-ongoing medical audit: review of PCR
3-protocol review: checking up on EMS systems and structures
What are the responsibilities of the following chemicals?
- Na(sodium): generates action potential. H20 balance 135-145mmol/L
- K (potassium): generates action potential in 3.5-5 mmol/L
- H (hydrogen): in water and most organic compounds, acids
- O (oxygen): aerobic reaspiration, organic compounds
- Ca (calcium): bone building, muscle contractions, blood clotting, horses 4.5-5.5 mEq/L
- P (phosphorous): component of nuclei acid and ATP 2.6-4.2mg/dL
- S(Sulpher): vitamins and minerals
- Cl (chlorine) H20 balance 96-110mm/l
- N (Nitrogen) proteins and nitric acid
- C (carbon) organic compounds, carbohydrates, lipids, DNA/RNA
- Fe (iron): part of hemoglobin
- Mg (magnesium) cardiac contraction, nerve message, 1.3-2.1mEq/L
- OH (hydroxide): bases
What is the minimum systolic BP needed to maintain cerebral perfusion?
60 mmHg
How are clots removed from cardio system? 2 ways
1) Fibrinolytic System (inside body)
—>once vessel wall repaired clotting cascade no longer stimulated and plasminogen in platelets dissolves clot.
2) natural Inhibitors/anticoagulants (other sources)
—>neutralize one of the 12 clotting factors
—>usually from medical intervention (heparin, warfarin)
Does epithelial tissue adhere to connective tissue?
Yes
- holds epithelium in place and prevents it from being torn.
- Basement Layer
Describe Cardiac musc tissue
- INvoluntary
- run without us thinking about it
- Automaticity
- gap junctions allow slow passage of Na and K until thresholds are reached and cause contraction
- elasticity
- striated
Name all 12 cranial nerves
1) CN 1: Olfactory (Oooo ) SOME
2) CN 2: Optic (Ooo ) SAY
3) CN 3: Oculomotor (Ooo) Mary
4) CN 4: Tronchlear (To) MONEY
5) CN 5: Trigmeinal (touch) BUT
6) CN 6: Abducens (and) MY
7) CN 7: Facial (feel) BROTHER
8) CN 8: Acoustic (vestibular cochlear) (a)SAYS
9) CN 9: Clossopharengeal (girls) BIG
10) CN 10: Vagus (Vagina)BOOBS
11) CN 11: Spinal accessory (and)MATTOR
12) CN. 12: Hypoglossal (hymen)MORE
What type or solution effect movement across the cell membrane?
1-Isotonic: total number of particles and h20 on either side are equal
2- Hypertonic: high concentration of particles causing h2- to be pulled out of cell crenation
3-Hypotonic: lower concentration of particles outside the cell forcing cell to sweep and eventually lyse
What 3 elements are required for transfer of infection?
1-source of infectious material
2-mode of transferring material
3-Susceptible host
A
Describe the 2 areas that coronary circulation originates from
1: Right Coronary Artery
- supplies right side of heart
- 50-60% draw explained vy dual supply= rarely fails
- +80% supply the AV node and Bundle of His
- major supplier of both inferior and posterior portions of the heart
2: Left Coronary Artery
-supplies left side of heart
-splits twice
—>Left Anterior Descending Artery (LAD)
*”widow maker”
*ventricular septal region
*anterior portion of the heart/left ventricle
—>Left Circumflex Artery (LCX)
*lateral portion of left ventricle
*posterior portion of the heart (AKA posterior descending artery-PDA)
What is the SV when exercising?
70ML/beat is averaGE, BUT INCREASES TO 110-130ML/MIN
How many days in proliferation phase ?
6-13
What is the diff between para/sympathized in HR regualation?
Sympathetic tone or stimulation
- increased HR, increased force of contraction, increased vascular tone
- epi, norepi and by neural pathways
Para tone or stimulation
- decreased HR, decrease force of contraction, relaxed muscular tone
- histamine and neural pathways
Do ETC02 levels increase or decrease with hypoventilation?
Increases
Is breathing voluntary or involuntary?
Both
What are 3 steps involved in respiration?
1- Pulmonary ventilation
2- Gas exchange (ext resp)
3- Gas transport (internal resp)
What is the job of plasma?
- Plasma (transportation)
- created in bone marrow
- largest part about 55% of blood
- just over 90%water
- Medium for all chemical transactions in the body to take place
- suspends all cells/organs
- contains all other products making up 45% left
- Besides water, plasma also contains dissolved sals and minerals like calcium, sodium, magnesium and potassium.
- Miscrobe-fighting antibodies travel to the battlefields of disease by hitching a ride in the plasma
- W/O plasma, the live giving blood cells would be left floundering w/o transportation.
In DKA do blood glucose levels fall or rise?
Rise
What 3 types of portions do Neurons consist of?
1-cell body: contains the nucleaous and other organelles
2-dendrites: tapering, highly branded and usually short.
3-axon: singly, thin process that may be very long. Output portions.
Describe Appendicular bones (126)
- outside the central body
- shoulder girdle
- pelvic girdle
- upper extrem
- lower extrem
Med term for active labour and crowning?
Parturition
What is a chemoreceptors?
A sense organ (like a taste bud) responding to chemical stimuli.
Job of the Hypothalamus ?
- relay for smell, taste, vision
- major regulator of homeostasis
- Sensors for….
- osmotic pressure (thirst centre)
- blood temp
- glucose levels
- hormone levels
- helps regulate smooth and cardiac muscle
- emotions controlled…
- rage
- aggression
- sexual arousal/pleasure
- Similar to animals
Contraindications of nasopharyngeal suctioning?
- acute ashamticus
- upper airway obstruction
- bleeding tendencies
- hemophilia
- leukaemia
- fractures in nasal
- basal skull fracture
What does BSI include?
- gloves
- gown
- eye protection or face shield
- mask
What is Homeostasis?
State of balance in the body between all biological processes
What antibody is responsible for hypersensitive reaction in anapyhlaxis?
IgE
What does CT calcitonin do?
Release natural bone breakdown and cause ca2+ in blood to be reaborsed by existing bone structures
What is epididymis?
Storage of maturation of spermatozoa
-convey sperm to ductus vas deferenes
What are the 4 blood types?
A: antigen A only
B: antigen B only
AB: antigen A and B (universal plasma donor)
O: neither antigen A or B
Percentage and range of SFM
40-60%
Describe the following
Neuroglia:
- do not generate or conduct action potential
- holds nervous tissue together
- protect, feed and clean neurons
Schwann Cells:
-Assist in the Neurons of the PNS
Astrocytes:
-assist the neurons of the CNS
What is Relative Refractory Period?
A period in which second early de polar can occur if stimulated
What are the 2 kinds of equilibrium?
1-static
*refers to the posistion of the body, relative to the force of gravity
2-dynamic
*posisiton of body in response to sudden movements
What is, volume of gas remaining in lungs at the end of normal expiration?
Functional Residual Volume
What law states myocardial fibres will contract more forcefully when they are stretched due to a increase in the volume of blood filling the heart?
Starling’s Law
What is Standard of care?
How similarly qualified practioners would have manages the pts care under the same or similar circumstances
What 2 type of glands are in the mouth?
1-Submandibular
2-Subglingual
What is cardiac output, blood volume, PVR
CO
- needs to be sufficient to maintain proper BP
- Co= SV x HR
BV
-decreased BV means a decrease in BP
PVR (peripheral vascular resistance)
-contraction of peripheral blood vessels to increase BP and vice versa
Systolic, Diastolic and Pulse pressure measure what?
S: force exerted during ventricular contraction
D: force exerted during ventricular relaxation
PP: diff between systolic and diastolic (normally 40 mmHg)
- adequate BP required to move things alone
- when we measure BP we listen for Kortokoff sounds (S1/S2, LUBB DUB)
What are the 10 body systems?
1- Integumentary 2-Skeletal 3-Muscular 4-Nervous 5-Endocrine 6-Circulatory 7-Respiratory 8-Digestive 9-Urinary 10-Reproductive
Name the following hypothalamic hormones.
- CRH
- ACTH
- hGH
- TRH
- TSH
- IGF:
- FSH
- LH:]
- PRL
- ADH
- CT
- EPO
- ANP
- CRH: Cortioctorphic Hormone
- ACTH: Adrenal cortiocptrphic hormone)
- hGH: Humane Growth hormone
- TRH: Thryotopin stimulating hormone
- TSH: thyroid stimulating hormone
- IGF: Insulin growth factors
- FSH: follicle stimulating hormone
- LH: leutinizing hormone
- PRL: prolactin
- ADH: antidiuertic hormone
- CT: calcitonin
- EPO: erythropoietin
- ANP: atrial natriuertic peptide
Diff between crude and fine sensation
Crude:
-ability to understand something is touching the skin but nots is shape/texture/or exact location
Fine:
-provides specific info about what exactly is touching the skin
Describe Chemoreceptors
- carotid bodies and aortic bodies detect changes primarily in 02
- also sense increase in c02 partial pressure and decreases the atrial pH, but to a lesser degree than for 02
- as 02 levels decrease or c02 levels increase, HR adjusted to compensate.
How are diseases transferred?
- Direct (kissing, sexual contact)
- INdirect (door handles, aids)
- Droplets (coughing, sneezing)
- Airborne (TB, SARS)
- Vehicle (salmonella via uncooked meat)
- Vector (malaria spread through mosquitos)
What are contraindications of NPA?
- nasal obstruction
- prone to nose bleeds
- nasal injury
- facial fractures
- skull fractures
Peds can become shockey at what level of blood?
100cc
As you go deeper into the myocardium there is a ________ in number of vessels supplying blood
Decrease
*occlusions higher up in the circulation can effect huge areas of the heart
What 3 parts is the GB dived into?
1-Fundus
2-Body
3-Neck
What percentage of blood actually circulates? Where is the rest stores?
60%
-liver, spleen, lympth, and interstitial
—> 40% kept just in case (blood reservoir)
Pancreas alpha and beta percentage
Alpha: 17% (glucagon)
Beta: 70% (insulin(
What percentage of CO2 attaches to RBC’s?
23%
True or false? Neurons go through Mitosis after birth?
false, they do NOT
What secrets progesterone?
Corpus luteum
What is Metabolism?
Maintains a stat of balance within the organism, an important characteristic of all living things. (Ana and cano combined )
What are the targeted ETC02 levels for ICP and Herniation?
ICP: 35-40mmHg
Herniation: 30-35mmHg
What is the job of proteins?
- important as help maintain hemolytic/hydrostatic balance
- albumin, globulin, fibrinogen
How much CSF in adults?q
- approx 80-120ml
* created and absorbed at approx 20ml/hr so always a constant amount
Do ETC02 levels increase or decrease with hyperventilation?
Decrease
What other system is taste linked to?
Limbic (and hypothamlus)
What is Muscle Tissue?
- provides motion, maintains posture, generates heat, generates force for contraction, movement of substances within the body
- 3 diff types (skeletal, cardiac, smooth)
What is the Dermis?
- composed of connective tissue containing collagen, and elastic fibres which maintain strength, extensibility, and elasticity of the skin
- blood vessels, nerves, glands and hair bollicles are embedded in the dermis
- contains nerve endings that are sensitive to heat and cold
Purpose of the spinal cord?
-major highway for electrochemical messages
*efferent message transmission
—>from the brain
—>primary the cranial nerves
*Afferent
—>from the periphery
—>reflex loop here as well
What is the histology order of the esophagus?
1-Mucosa
2-Submucosa
3-Muscularis
4-Adventitia
What hormone is release in the heart?
- ANP (atrial natriuertic Peptite)
- release of ANP results in reduction of blood volume and BP
At rest, what percentage of blood flow supplies the skeletal muscles?
15%
-blood is shunted to major organs
Muscularis of the bladder is also know as?
Detrusor muscle
The _____-_____ pump is a collection of skeletal muscles that aid in the heart in the circulation of blood
Skeletal-Muscle
- important in increasing venous return to the heart, but may also play a role in arterial blood flow
- during exercise, muscles contract and expand laterally
What is De/Re-poloraization?
Sudden fast change of the cell threshold has been reached allowing the inrush of Na and the slower change caused by outrush of K
What is the job of ductus deferens?
Storage
-civets sperm to ejaculatory duct
What are the 3 features of conn tissue?
1-cells
2-ground substance
3- fibres
What are the 2 types of surfaces in epi tissue?
(1) Apical: exposed to a body cavity, lining of an internal organ, or the exterior of the body
(2) Basal: attached to the basement membrane
*Simple or stratified
What buffers acidic gastric juice?
Sodium bicarbonate
Describe Boyles Law
During inhalation, the diaphragm contracts and is depressed, and the ribs are elevated causing the thoracic cavity size to increase. Pressure decreases and air rushes in via the mouth.
Normal pulse ox range?
95-100%
What tissue is most abundant in the body?
Connective
What is the oval window?
Membrane vibrates and try’s it’s the reading sound wastes in the fluid of the inner ear
Where does urine drain into?
Drains from collecting tables into papillary ducts, into a calyx, the renal pelvis then the ureter.
In what ways does a cell membrane allow materials in?
1-Osmosis: movement of h20 along a concentration gradient
2-Diffusion: movement of particles from high concentration to a lower concentration
3-Active Transport: use of energy (ATP) to transport substances across the membrane against the gradient
4-Filtration: movement of particles from one area to another selectively
What are the effects of Epi, NorEpi and Histamine on HR and BP?
Epi
- a1, b2, b3 effects
- boosts BP, HR (chronotropic)
- PVR
NorEpi:
- only a1
- boosts BP without changing cardiac rate
- PVR
Histamine
- Mainly H1 and H2
- drops out BP (drastically in anaphylaxis)
What are the 4 traits to remember with cardiac tissus?
1: Automaticity
- will run even without brain
2: Contractility
- starling
3: Conductivity
- pass on chemical-electrical stimulus easily
4: Excitability:
- very receptive to outside electrical stimulus
Diff between Autonomic and Somatic Nervous system
Autonomic
- controls autonomic involuntary regulation of smooth muscle, cardiac muscle and glandular secreation
- each message is transferred at a synapse form the 1ns neuron the 2nd neuron then travels to muscle or glan
- most drugs given will work on the gaps either election or increasing desired responses
Somatic:
- controls skeletal muscles (voluntary)
- each neuron fibre extremes all the way from spinal cord to skeletal muscle
- consists of sensory neurons that convey info from cutaneous and special sense receptors primarily in head, body, wall and extremities to CNS, and motor neurons conduct impulse to skeletal muscle only
- efferent neurons realsese ACh
What is emulsification?
Breakdown of large lipid globules into droplets that can be more easily digested by the pancreatic lipase and absorbed
Anything that produces olfactory sense but be what?
H20, lips soluble and emit a gas
What 3 tunics are veins made up of?
Same as arteries!!
1- Tunica interna (lining)
2-Tunica media (middle layer)
-sympathetic neurons of the ANS innervate day Vascular smooth muscle which allows for vasoconstriction or dilation
3-Tunica externa (covering)
- low pressure system
- brings blood back to heart
What are the 5 classifications of bones?
1-Long: (femur) 2-Short (carpals, tarsal) 3-Flat (scapula) 4-Irregular (vertebra, facial) 5-Seasamoid (patella)
Is the pharynx voluntary or in?
Both!
What is the job of the labia Majora and minora?
Majora:
- for margin of pudendal cleft
- enclose and protect other external repro structures
Minora
- forms margin of vistibule cleft
- protects openings of vagina and rethera
What rate do you do CPR compressions at?
100-120/m
What is the job of WBC?
- Protection
- Neutrophils, basophils, eonsophils, lymphocytes, killer T cells, helper B cells
- uncleared
- clean and protect body
- produced in red bone marrow
How many bones in the human body?
206 bones
- 80 Axial
- 126 Appendicular
What is lipogenesis?
Synthesis of lipids by cells from glucose or amino acids. It is stimulated by insulin. This occurs when more calories are consumed than is needed for ATP production.
Diff between Aerobic and Anaerobic Respiration?
Aerobic: production of ATP in the presence of Oxygen, most efficient, 36/38 ATP, CO2 and H20 only byproducts
Anaerobic: production of ATP without oxygen, inefficient, 2 ATP, byproducts of tonics and acids
Describe the 4 chambers of the heart
2 Atria
- Left and right
- smaller, superior portion of the heart
- fill passively
- atrial kick= 25%
2 Ventricles
-left and right
-approx 2/3 of the heart
-left side 2-3 times size of heart
Left= high pressure (systemic circulation)
Right= low pressure (pulmonary circulation)
What are 2 confirmation techniques to ensure proper ET tube placement?
1-Auscultation
2- Monitoring ETC02 values
What are the 4 regions of the large intestine?
1-Cecum
2-Colon
3-Rectum
4-Anal Canal
What are the 3 functions of blood?
1) Transportation
—>02, C02, waste, nutrients
2) Protection
—>clotting cascade
3) Regulation
—>ph reg, temperature, h20 balance
What are the 3 basic mechanisms of homeostasis in cardio system?
1) Vascular Spasm
—> arterial walls contract when damaged, contracting flow (try’s to squeeze to prevent clots)
2)Platlet Plug Formation
—>Platelets adhere to damaged vessel walls and start clot formation
3)Blood Clot Formation
—>Fibrin threats from catching more Platelets forming clot (positive feedback loop)
The Bowman’s capsule and glomerulus form what?
Renal corpuscle
What are 4 factors that influence 02 binding?
1- temp
2- ph
3- partial pressure of CO2
4- enzyme presence in glycolysis
The bigger the difference between the pressures, the ______ the air moves
Quicker
Which lobe of the brain is responsible for memory, cognition, higher level thinking and personality?
Frontal
Describe iatrogenic
Caused by treatment/process of helping the pt
What are the 2 body cavities of the penis called?
1-corpus spongiosum
2-corpora cavernpsa
What 4 things must occur for sensation/impulse transmission of cranial nerves?
1-Stimulation of proper nerve receptor
2-transduction of stimulus
*stimulus most be strong enough to caus action potential
3-generation of nerve impulse
*movement of impulses from receptor to the other nerves
4-integration of sensory input
*processing of stimulus information by CNS
What is the most important cranial nerve?
Vagus
- Vagal maneuvers
- heart rate
- blood pressure
What depth do you give compressions at?
Adult: 5 cm (2 inches)
Children: 1/3 depths of the chest, 5 cm (2 inches)
Infants: 1/3 depth of chest, 4 cm (1 1/2 inch)
What 3 parts are in the external ear?
1-pinnacle (auricle)
2-external auditory canal (meatus)
3-tympanic membrane (ear drum)
What cells are gastric pits made up of?
Mucus secreting cells, parietal cells, chief cells, enteroendocrine cells
What are the 5 levels of organization in the body?
1- Chemicals 2- Cells 3-Tissues 4-Organs 5-Systems
What is the pathophysiology of hypovolemic shock?
- chemoreceptors sense changes in chemical levels and glucose levels
- baroreceptors sense decrease in blood pressure
- body attempts to compensate for decreased perfusion by SNS efforts combined with catecholamine release
What are 3 factors in stroke volume?
1-Preload (starlings law)
2-Contractibility
3- Afterload
*all affect SV either positively or negatively
Job of the Midbrain?
Connection between the diencephalon and spinal cord
- pathway for signals to pass from the cerebrum to the spinal tract, medulla and pons
- subconscious motor control is coordinated here along with the neurotransmitter Dopamine
- Parkinsons disease is centred here
What are the 2 fibourius tunics of the eye
1-cornea (anterior chamber)
2-sclera (gives shape and protects inner parts)