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You and your partner are working on an unconscious pulseless 58-year-old male patient fireback up is going to the ambulance to get your AED which of the following best describes the treatment you are performing while waiting for the AED to arrive

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30 compressions to ventilations five times in two minutes

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Giving out information to somebody calls in regards to a patient which of the following our next would you be contravening

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The health information act and freedom and privacy act

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What is scope of practice

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Actions that are legally allowed

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True or faults it is believed that an adult is suffering from a mental disorder and is a threat to themselves or others an EMS practitioner has the authority to apprehend the patient and transport them to the hospital

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False

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The term cyanotic is used to describe the skin color that is

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Bluegray

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What type of medical direction do standing orders and written protocols describe

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Off-line

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As of January 2006 which act will be replacing the health disciplines act

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Health professions act

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7
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Name the responsibilities that would be considered a primary responsibility of the EMS practitioner

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Documentation

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You arrive on scene to an 89-year-old male who is pulseless apneic and unresponsive his wife says there is a DNR but is unable to produce the document what is your best option

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Initiate resuscitation

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9
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Terminating the provider patient relationship without making certain that equal or higher training is available is called

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Abandonment

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10
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What is the most common cause of airway obstruction in an unconscious patient

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The tongue

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The EMR must represent the patient and act in the patient’s best interest until that responsibility can be passed on to another provider in the healthcare system in doing so the EMR’s functioning as

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Advocate

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12
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Which section of the health disciplines act outlines the EMR scope of practice

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Section 9

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13
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In order for an EMS practitioner to be found negligent what four elements must be present

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Duty to act
Breech of duty
Damages
Cause

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14
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Pale skin is generally suggest which underlying problems

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In adequate circulation

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Ensuring that the patient understands the risks and dangers of a treatment is necessary for the patient to give what type of consent

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Informed consent

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16
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What class of drivers license do you need as a minimum in order to drive an ambulance in Alberta

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Class four

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You and your partner have just responded to a two-year-old patient the patient’s mother states that the child swallowed a quarter the child is conscious cyanotic and gasping for air what should you do

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Give five back blows followed by five abdominal thrusts until the airway is clear

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The topographic term used to describe the location of body parts that are closer to the free end of an extremity is called

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Distal

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Consider assisting ventilations when respirations are less than what and greater than what per minute

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Less then 10 or greater than 30 breaths per minute

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20
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And intramuscular injection is

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Absorbs more quickly than a subcutaneous injection

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When you use a stethoscope to listen to normal breath sounds of a patient you should hear

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Equal bilateral air movement in each lung

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22
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Which is a contraindication of the oropharyngeal airway

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When the patient has a gag reflex

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23
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Signs of vaso constriction can include

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Cool hands or feet
Delayed capillary refill
Week peripheral pulses

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24
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What are the four criteria used when evaluating or assessing the patient’s orientation

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Their name where they are the year and month and what happened person place time and event

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25
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Which structure is located within the mediastinum

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The heart

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26
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In ideal circumstances suctioning of an adult patient should not exceed how many seconds

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15

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27
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What are the five phases of the grieving process commonly experienced by patients who are close to death

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Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
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28
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Supine refers to

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Lying face up

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29
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The term baseline vitals is used to describe

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The initial set of vital signs taken

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30
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An electrical impulse leaves the SA node and travels to the

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AV node

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31
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Pain felt at a location other than its origin is called

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Referred pain

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32
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Reactive sites within cells or on cellular surfaces where drug may bind are called

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Receptors

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33
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You can auscultate a patient’s blood pressure by

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Deflating a blood pressure cuff while listening with the stethoscope for the return of blood flow through the brachial artery

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34
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drugs that interacts with the receptor to stimulate a response is known as a

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Agonist

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35
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The chemical released in an anaphylactic reaction that causes rapidly increased vascular permeability and capillary and venule dilation is

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Histamine

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36
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The fastest way to deliver a medication into the bloodstream would be to

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Administer intervening asleep not in EMR scope

37
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A diabetic patient exhibits exhibits Kussmaul breathing to

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Compensate for metabolic acidosis

38
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How many half-life’s must pass before a drug is essentially eliminated from the human body

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5

39
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The study of how a body handles the drug overtime is referred to as

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Pharmacokinetics

40
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Drug conversion to a metabolite is called

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Biotransformation

41
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The term urticaria means

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Hives

42
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The signs and symptoms of croup include

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A barking cough

43
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The dosages for an adult and junior EpiPen are

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0.3 mg and 0.15 mg

44
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The primary site of drug metabolism are

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Liver and kidneys

45
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Air entering the plural space that is not related to trauma is known as a

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Spontaneous pneumothorax

46
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A patient who is been involved in a nontraumatic scuba diving emergency should be transported in what position

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A left lateral recumbent with head than feet

47
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Two major causes of strokes are

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Occlusion and hemorrhagic

48
Q

Cushing’s Triad consists of

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elevated blood pressure decreased pulse decreased respiratory rate

49
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Hyperperfusion is another name for

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Shock

50
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Which organ is located in the retro peritoneal space

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Kidney

51
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What stage of shock is a patient in when their blood pressure starts to drop

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Decompensated

52
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Neurogenic shock usually results from damage to the spinal cord at the

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Cervical level

53
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The term blue bloater is used to describe which condition pneumonia 
chronic bronchitis 
asthma 
COPD or 
emphysema
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Chronic bronchitis

54
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The term pink puffer generally refers to which pulmonary disease emphysema
pneumonia
chronic bronchitis
asthma

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Emphysema

55
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The branch of the nervous system that is responsible for the fight or flight response is the
Autonomic nervous system
Sympathetic nervous system
Somatic nervous system
Parasympathetic nervous system
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Sympathetic nervous system

56
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Painless vaginal bleeding during pregnancy is most likely to

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Placenta previa

57
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The nervous system is divided into two anatomical systems these are

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The central and peripheral nervous system’s

58
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Where the trachea divides into the left and right mainstream bronchi is known as the

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Carina

59
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The exchange of carbon dioxide waste products and oxygen into the long occurs between the_________ and the pulmonary capillaries

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Alveoli

60
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Black tarry stools are called

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Marlena

61
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Cushing's triad is associated with
Massive hemothorax
Cardiac tamponade
Tension pneumothorax
Increased intracranial pressure
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Increased intracranial pressure

62
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\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is a type of fracture most commonly occurring in children
Pathological fracture
Commuted fracture
Epiphyte all fracture
Green stick fracture
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Green stick

63
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Air entering the thoracic cavity via and external wound is known as a

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Opened pneumothorax

64
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Emergency care for blunt trauma to the scrotum should include

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Cold or ice pack to the area

65
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Treatment for an abdominal evisceration includes

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Applying moist occlusive dressing

Flexing the knees and legs to relieve pressure on the abdomen

66
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What are the vessels that carry deoxygenated blood from the body to the right atrium

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Superior and inferior vena cava

67
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True or false a drug can have many generic names but only one tradename

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False

68
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The term urticaria means

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Blood in the urine

69
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Ms contin the ms stands for morphine sulfate

True or false

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True

70
Q

In which layer of the skin will you find papillary’s hair follicles and sweat glands
Subcutaneous
Epidermis
Dermis

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Dermis

71
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What is the name of the obsterical emergency where the cord passes prior to the fetus

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Prolapsed cord

72
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What are the five definitive signs of death

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Decapitated 
Rigor Morris
Incinerated
Eviscerated
Decomposing
73
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What part of the body senses the level of carbon dioxide in the blood to stimulate breathing

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The brain stem

74
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Hypoxia means

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Lack of oxygen

75
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What are the six parts that make up the upper airway

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Nasopharynx
Nasal air passage
Pharynx
Mouth
Oropharnyx
Epiglottis
76
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What five parts make up the lower airway

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Larynx
Trachea 
Alveoli
 small bronchi 
main bronchi
77
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What nine conditions result in hypoxia

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Myocardial infarction
Pulmonary edema
Acute narcotic overdose
Smoke inhalation
Stroke
Chest injury
Shock
Lung disease
Asthma
78
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Superior means

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Towards the head

79
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Inferior means

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Towards the feet

80
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Lateral means

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Towards the outside of the body

81
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Medial means

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Towards the middle of the body

82
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Proximal means

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Closer to the trunk

83
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Distal means

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towards the ends of the extremities

84
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The upper right quadrant of the abdomen contains

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Bile duct liver gallbladder part of the stomach

85
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Upper left quadrant of the abdomen contains

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Stomach spleen some of the large intestine

86
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Lower right quadrant of the abdomen contains

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small intestine and appendix

87
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Lower left quadrant contains

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Large intestine

88
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What are the three different parts of the musculoskeletal system

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Skeletal - voluntary moves arms etc
Smooth - involuntary digestive lungs
Cardiac - heart

89
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The nervous system is protected by the meninges what three parts make up the meninges

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Dura mater
Arachnoid layer
Pia mater
( this goes from outer skull in)

90
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Definition of negligence

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Deviating from the accepted standard of care through carelessness inattention disregard

91
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Drugs could be made up of what five sources

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Plants Atropine
Animals insulin
Minerals potassium 
Synthetic fentanyl
Micro organism. Penicillin

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