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the passageway by which air enters and leaves the body ✔Correct Answer-airway
a prehospital assessment that is the first step in the total assessment of the patient ✔Correct
Answer-primary assessment
a prehospital assessment that is a rapid assessment of the head, chest, abdomen, pelvis,
extremities, and posterior of the body to detect signs and symptoms of an injury ✔Correct
Answer-rapid trauma assessment
procedure for detecting changes in a patients condition ✔Correct Answer-reassessment
assessment done after the scene safety and primary assessment that includes pt hx, review of
systems, physical exam and vital signs ✔Correct Answer-secondary assessment
injury caused by a blow that does not penetrate the skin or other body tissues ✔Correct
Answer-blunt force trauma
in medicine the reason for a call to EMS ✔Correct Answer-chief complaint
the course of the blood from the heart through the arteries, caps, and veins back again to the
heart ✔Correct Answer-circulation
a condition of being stretched, inflated, or larger than normal ✔Correct Answer-distension
impression of the patients condition that is formed on first approaching the patient based on
patients environment, c/c, and appearance ✔Correct Answer-general impression
a patient with one or more medical diseases or conditions ✔Correct Answer-medical patient
what pulse divides the medial malleolus and heel into the lateral and medial plantar arteries
✔Correct Answer-posterior tibial
what pain involves the many factors that influence the patients report of pain (psychiatric
conditions) ✔Correct Answer-psychogenic pain
, what pulse runs along the line between the first and second toe, and its pulse point is felt in the
mid foot ✔Correct Answer-doralis pedis
what type of pain is the alteration of central nervous system processing of sensation, leading to
amplification of pain signals ✔Correct Answer-central sensitization
what is used in conjunction with the stethoscope to allow you to accurately obtain the patients
bp ✔Correct Answer-sphygmomanometer
what is an electronic device for determining the amount of o2 carried in the blood ✔Correct
Answer-pulse oximeter
what is an electronic temp measurement tool capable of taking oral, axillary, or rectal temp
✔Correct Answer-thermometer
what do you call watching the rise and fall of he chest cavity in the most accurate way to visually
take note of the patients respirations ✔Correct Answer-respiratory rate
what pain is without identifiable etiology ✔Correct Answer-idiopathic
auscultation of most sounds requires the use of a ✔Correct Answer-stethoscope
what is the pressure crafted in the arteries when the heart contracts and forces blood out in to
circulation ✔Correct Answer-systolic
the pressure remaining in the arteries when the heart is relaxed ✔Correct Answer-diastolic
what do you call abnormality high bp ✔Correct Answer-hypertension
what do you call abnormally low bp ✔Correct Answer-hypotension
what lasts several months or longer and is often sustained by a pathophysiologic process
✔Correct Answer-chronic
Whats the flow of blood through tissues, providing them with O2 and nutrients and removing
waste products ✔Correct Answer-perfusion
weak and rapid pulse ✔Correct Answer-thready pulse
whats the measure of the amount of heart below the skin and the subcutaneous tissues
✔Correct Answer-temperature
what pulse is located behind the patients knee cap and can be palpated on the dorsal side of
the patients knee ✔Correct Answer-popiteal