Terms

Question 1

Trauma emergencies

Answer 1

Involve injuries resulting from physical forces applied to the body

Question 2

Medical emergencies

Answer 2

Involve illnesses or conditions caused by disease

Question 3

Respiratory

Answer 3

Asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis

Question 4

Cardiovascular

Answer 4

Heart attack (Myocardial infarction), congestive heart failure

Question 5

Neurologic

Answer 5

Seizure, stroke, syncope

Question 6

Gastrointestinal

Answer 6

Appendicitis, diverticulitis, pancreatitis

Question 7

Urologic

Answer 7

Kidney stones, bladder infection

Question 8

Endocrine

Answer 8

Diabetes mellitus

Question 9

Hematologic

Answer 9

Sickle cell disease, hemophilia

Question 10

Immunologic

Answer 10

Anaphylactic reaction (severe allergy to bee stings food or other substances)

Question 11

Toxicologic

Answer 11

Substance-abuse, food, plant or chemical poisoning

Question 12

Behavioral

Answer 12

Alzheimer’s, disease, schizophrenia, depression, suicide

Question 13

Gynecologic

Answer 13

Vaginal bleeding, sexually transmitted, disease, pelvic, inflammatory disease, ectopic, pregnancy

Question 14

Nature of illness (NOI)

Answer 14

The general type of illness a patient is experiencing/one type of medic call

Question 15

Communicable disease

Answer 15

The disease that can be spread from one person or species to another

Question 16

Epidemic

Answer 16

Occurs when new cases of a disease in human population substantially exceed the number expected based on recent experience

Question 17

Herpes simplex

Answer 17

A common virus that is asymptomatic and 80% of people carrying it, but characterized by small blisters in the lips or genitals in symptomatic infections

Question 18

Index of suspicion

Answer 18

Awareness that unseen, life-threatening injuries or illness may exist

Question 19

Infectious disease

Answer 19

A medical condition caused by the growth in spread of small, harmful organisms within the body

Question 20

Influenza

Answer 20

A virus that has crossed the animal/human barrier and infected humans and that kills thousands of people every year

Question 21

Meningitis

Answer 21

And inflammation of the meningeal coverings of the brain and spinal cord; It is usually caused by a virus or a bacterium.

Question 22

Meningococcal meningitis

Answer 22

An inflammation of the menial coverings for the brain and spinal cord; can be highly contagious

Question 23

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

Answer 23

A bacterium that can cause infections in different parts of the body and is often resistant to commonly used antibiotics. It is transmitted by different routes, including the respiratory route, and can be found on the skin and surgical wounds in the bloodstream lungs and urinary tract.

Question 24

Pandemic

Answer 24

An outbreak that occurs on a global scale

Question 25

Tuberculosis

Answer 25

Chronic bacterial disease, caused by Microbacterium tuberculosis, that usually affects the lungs can also affect other organs such as the brain and kidneys; It is spread by cough and can lie dormant in a persons, lungs for decades, and then reactivate.

Question 26

Virulence

Answer 26

The strength or ability of a pathogen to produce disease

Question 27

Bacteria

Answer 27

Grow and reproduce outside the human cell in the appropriate temperature and with appropriate nutrients

Question 28

Viruses

Answer 28

Smaller than bacteria; Multiply only inside a host, and die when exposed to the environment

Question 29

Fungi

Answer 29

Similar to bacteria, and that they require the appropriate nutrients and organic material to grow

Question 30

Protozoa (Parasites)

Answer 30

Single celled, microscopic organisms, some of which cause disease

Question 31

Helminths (parasites)

Answer 31

Invertebrates with long, flexible, round or flattened bones

Question 32

Hepatitis A (infectious)

Answer 32

-Route: fecal!oral, infected food or drink
-2-6wk
-Vaccine is available. No specific treatment is available body will clear the infection on its own.
-Approximately 2% of patients die after acute infection the patient has lifelong immunity

Question 33

Hepatitis B

Answer 33

-Blood sexual contact saliva urine breastmilk
-4-12wk
-Vaccine is available. Treatment is minimally effective.
-After 30% of patients may become chronic carriers, patients are asymptomatic and without signs of liver disease, but they may infect others approximately one percent to 2% of patient die

Question 34

Hepatitis C

Answer 34

-Blood, sexual contact
-2-10wk
-No vaccine is available. Treatment is costly, but effective for mini strains of hepatitis C
-Cirrhosis of the liver develops and 50% of patients with chronic hepatitis C
. Chronic infection increases the risk of cancer in the liver.

Question 35

Hepatitis B

Answer 35

-Blood, sexual contact
-4-12wk
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No vaccine or treatment is available
-occurs only in patients with active hepatitis B, fulminant disease may develop in 20% of patience

Question 36

MERS-CoV

Answer 36

-The virus most commonly found in bat and camels living in the Middle East first human case of

MERS-COV was discovered in 2012 in Saudi Arabia

Question 37

Ebola

Answer 37

Outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa caused internal dim conce