ER Search and Rescue Concept Check

As you survey and assess the scene, you need to make sure to size up the scene as well. This involves looking for potential hazards that could harm your team, the patient, or a person who is present but uninjured. Anyone present but uninjured is called a...

• citizen

• bystander

• teammate

• guardian

When you first reach your patient, you must determine if any of their conditions might be life threatening. This is known as the...

• Primary assessment

• Secondary assessment

When the patient is moved to the helicopter and you complete a head to toe physical exam along with vital signs, this is called the...

• Primary assessment

• Secondary assessment

During the primary assessment, one goal is to determine the MOI. MOI stands for...

• method of instruction

• mechanism of industry

• mechanism of injury

• method of industry

Another goal during the primary assessment is to check the patient's ABC's. ABC's stands for...

• Airplanes, Bowling, Cricket

• Adjacent, Bilateral, Crutches

• Airflow, Brunch, Crafts

• Airway, Breathing, Circulation

Our patient is having noisy, wheezing breaths due to constricted airways. This is referred to as...

• Constriction

• Stridor

• Reeled

• Deoxygenation

Our patient appears to be having a severe allergic reaction from a bee sting known as anaphylactic shock. Anaphylactic shock results when our immune system produces _____________ to attack foreign ______________

• antigens, antibodies

• antibodies, antigens

Anaphylactic shock causes our blood pressure to _____________ and our heart rate to _______________

• decrease, increase

• increase, decrease

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

When our immune system attacks the foreign venom from the bee sting, our white blood cells cause inflammation within the body and release a chemical called...

• phenolphthalein

• serotonin

• histamines

• dopamine

Histamines cause our blood vessels to _____________ during anaphylactic shock. This decreases our blood pressure and forces the heart to work harder to try to pump oxygen to the body

• constrict

• dilate

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3