Test 4

Question 1

End tidal carbon dioxide

Answer 1

Is the partial pressure or maximal concentration of co2 at the end of and exhaled breath.

Amount of carbon of dioxide you’re moving out. (Pg 404)

Question 2

Toxin-induced hepatitis

Answer 2

Medications,drugs, and alcohol. Not contagious. May have liver damage and jaundice (yellow eyes and skin)

Question 3

Medications the EMT will administer

Answer 3

Activated charcoal, Aspirin, MDIs, Epinephrine, Naloxone(opioid poisoning),oral glucose, oxygen, Nitroglycerin

Question 4

Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

Answer 4

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, in surgical wounds, in the bloodstream, lungs, and unitary tract.

Question 5

Hepatitis A

Answer 5

Fecal-oral,infected food or drink. Vaccine is available

Question 6

Hepatitis B

Answer 6

Blood, sexual contact, saliva, urine, breast milk. Vaccine is available

Question 7

Hepatitis C

Answer 7

Blood, sexual contact. No vaccine

Question 8

Hepatitis D

Answer 8

Blood, sexual contact. No vaccine

Question 9

Whopping cough (Pertusis)

Answer 9

Is an airborne bacterial infection that primarily affects children younger than 6 years old. It is highly contagious and is passed through droplet infection

Question 10

Alkalosis

Answer 10

The buildup of excess base (lack of acids) in the body fluids

Question 11

Rhonchi

Answer 11

Coarse breath sounds heard in patients with chronic mucus in the airways

COPD, Pneumonia, Brochitis

Productive cough, fever, pleuritic chest pain, clear or white sputum

Question 12

Stridor

Answer 12

A harsh, high pithces, barking inspiratory sound often heard in acute laryngeal (upper-airway) obstruction

Croup, Epiglottitis

Fever, barking cough,soar throat, and drooling

Question 13

Crackles

Answer 13

Fluid in lungs

Congestive heart failure, pulmonary edema, Pneumonia

Pink frothy sputum, fever, chest pains

Question 14

Wheezes

Answer 14

Dyspnea, hives, facial swelling, etc

Question 15

Dyspnea

Answer 15

shortness of breath or difficulty breathing

Question 16

Croup

Answer 16

An inflammatory disease of the upper respiratory system that may cause a partial airway obstruction and is characterized by a barking cough, usually seen in children

Question 17

PASTE tool

Answer 17

P-Progression. What start it? (shortness of breath)
A-Associated chest pain.
S-Sputum. Has the patient been coughing up sputum?
T-Talking tiredness. This is an indicator of how much distress the patient is in
E-Exercise tolerance. Ask the patient a question about what he or she was able to do before this problem started

Question 18

Pleural effusion

Answer 18

Is a collection of fluid outside the lung on one or both sides of the chest. It compresses the lung or lungs and causes dyspnea.

Question 19

Acute coronary syndrome

Answer 19

Also called ACS, is a term used to describe a group of symptoms caused by myocardial ischemia. Myocardial ischemia is a decrease in blood flow to the heart, which leads to chest pain through reduction of oxygen and nutrients to the tissues of the heart

Question 20

V Fib

Answer 20

Disorganized, ineffective quivering of the ventricles. No blood is pumped through the body, and the patient usually becomes unconscious within seconds. The only way to convert this dysrhthmia is to defibrillate the heart.

Question 21

Ischemic heart disease

Answer 21

is disease involving a decrease in blood flow to one or more portions of the heart muscle

Question 22

SA and AV node

Answer 22

SA node is the main pace maker.

AV node is the backup

Question 23

What position is best to transport a stroke patient?

Answer 23

Semi fowler

Question 24

Angina Pectoris

Answer 24

Chest pain

Question 25

Transient ischemic attack (TIA)

Answer 25

A disorder of the brain in which brain cells temporarily stop functioning because of insufficient oxygen, causing stroke-like symptoms that resolve completely within 24 hours of onset