T Notes Flashcards
What are the 6 rights of drug administration?
Drug Dose Documentation Time Patient Route
What are the four process of pharmacokinetics?
Absorption
Biotransformation
Distribution
Elimination
Mnemonic = AB no C DE
Signs of diabetes
Polydipsia
Ployphagia
Polyuria
Signs of electrocution
Electric shocks can cause which of the following
Internal damage
Ventricular fibrillation
Cardiac irritability
Smouldering clothes
Define pharmacokinetics
How drugs are transported in and out of the body.
What is the primary function of nitro when treating angina?
Reduce preload
What kind of shoulder dislocation presents with a patient in the “squared off” position?
Anterior dislocation
What is the most common age group to experience febrile seizures?
6 months to 6 years old
What breathing pattern is associated with diabetic ketoacidosis?
Kussmaul’s
Frothy red blood at a wound site may suggest?
Open pneumothorax
Subglottic thermal burns are most likely caused by?
Superheated steam
Hyperresonance in the chest can be cause by?
Phneumothorax or emphysema
Anesthetics are which?
Medication that induce loss of sensation to touch or pain
The buccal route is?
Between the gums and cheek
Patient rotates palms to face downward, this is called?
Pronation
What are some potential neck laceration complications?
Subqtaneous emphaema
Air embolism
External / internal jugular or carotid laceration
What vital signs would you expect with Cushing?
Increase blood pressure
Irregular respirations
Decrease heart rate
Define unified command.
A coordinated effort involving multiple jurisdictions
Expect ECG artifact with all except
An enlarged heart
Which is not a cause of dysrhythmia?
Hypertension
What is not a cause of tachycardia?
Hypothermia
What are the two branches of the left coronary artery?
Anterior descending artery and circumflex branch
Which of the following cause pulmonary edema?
Left sided heart failure
What are open ended questions?
Questions that cannot be answered yes or no.
Differential field diagnosis definition
The list of possible causes for your patients condition.
Oxygen may cause respiratory distress in which patient?
A COPD patient
Car accident patient is experiencing a “tearing sensation” in the chest with pain radiating to the back. What is the most likely cause?
Aortic aneurysm
Blunt trauma in the pediatric patient, because of flexibility, suspect injury to?
Spleen
What are the lead placements for lead II?
+LL & -RA
Which part of respiration is considered passive?
Exhalation
Is pressure in the thorax during expiration greater or less than the environment?
Greater
Urticaria is caused by?
Vasodilation
What is bioequivalence?
Relative therapeutic effectiveness of chemically equivalent drugs
A child asthma attack without wheezing is?
An ominous sign
Obese female patient complains of RUQ pain radiation to the shoulder after consumptions of grease food. What could be the cause?
Cholecysitis
Which occurs during hyperventilation?
CO2 levels lower as a result of increased respiratory rate
What is considered alkalosis?
pH greater than 7.45
7.46-14
Symptoms of meningitis?
Stiff neck
Fever
Lethargy
Irritability
Your partner complains of fever, chills, malaise, aches and cough. What do you suspect?
Influenza
Hypertonic solution moves water
Into the vascular space
Female patient, 36 pregnant, presents with altered LOC and recent seizures. What is most likely?
eclampsia
Supine hypotensive syndrome is caused by?
The gravid uterus compresses the interior vena cava when the mother is supine
Hypotension can develop with severe anaphylaxis due to?
Increased vascular permeability and vasodilation
During cardiogenic shock, the body compensates by?
Increases contractile force, increase preload, lowers vascular resistance
Alkalosis and hyperventilation may produce?
Cramping / carpopedal spasm
What is tidal volume?
Average volume of gas inhaled or exhaled in one respiratory cycle, 500 ml
Where do internal respiration occur?
Peripheral capillary
Put the upper airway anatomy in order from superior to inferior.
Nares Nasopharynx Larynx Laryngopharynx Trachea
Bronchodilator effect what receptors?
Beta 2
What is ethics?
What determines how one should live
What is ethical relativism?
Each person decides how to behave and whatever decision that person makes is acceptable.
What does nocp do?
Serves as a reference point for provincial or territorial bodies seeking to facilitate the mobility of paramedics between provinces and territories. Nocp may become the blueprint for the national exam. Nocp is the key to defining a national scope of practice.
All of the above
What does primum non nocerre mean?
First do no harm
What is required for a patient refusal
A witness
Suspect cardiac tamponade when?
After cpr
What is the shape of the diaphgram?
Saddle
