EMT-JBL MID TERM PROFESSIONAL
REVIEW SHEET TESTED QUESTIONS
MASTER FILE
●● What are symptoms of ingested poisoning ?.
Answer: ingested poisons
(poisons that are swallowed) can include many common household and
industrial chemicals, medications, improperly prepared or stored foods,
plant materials,
And
petroleum products, and agricultural products made specifically to
control rodents, weeds, insects, and crop diseases.
●● How do you recognize symptoms of inhaled poisoning ?.
Answer: poisons that are breathed in) take the form of gases, vapors, and
sprays.
Again, many of these substances are in common use in the home,
industry, and agriculture. Such poisons include carbon monoxide (from
car exhaust, wood-burning stoves, and furnaces), ammonia, chlorine,
insect sprays, and the gases produced from volatile liquid chemicals
, (volatile means "able to change very easily from a liquid into a gas";
many industrial solvents are volatile).
●● How do you recognize symptoms of Absorbed poisoning ?.
Answer: poisons taken into the body through unbroken skin) may or
may not damage the skin.
Many are corrosives or irritants that will injure the skin and then be
slowly absorbed into body tisues and the bloodstream, possibly causing
widespread damage.
Others are absorbed into the bloodstream without injuring the skin.
Examples of these poisons include insecticides and agricultural
chemicals. Contact with a variety of plant materials and certain forms of
marine life can lead to skin damage and possible absorption into tissues
under the skin.
●● How do you recognize a patient that is ill, because of injected
poisoning ?.
Answer: poisons inserted through the skin) enter the body through a
means that penetrates the skin.
REVIEW SHEET TESTED QUESTIONS
MASTER FILE
●● What are symptoms of ingested poisoning ?.
Answer: ingested poisons
(poisons that are swallowed) can include many common household and
industrial chemicals, medications, improperly prepared or stored foods,
plant materials,
And
petroleum products, and agricultural products made specifically to
control rodents, weeds, insects, and crop diseases.
●● How do you recognize symptoms of inhaled poisoning ?.
Answer: poisons that are breathed in) take the form of gases, vapors, and
sprays.
Again, many of these substances are in common use in the home,
industry, and agriculture. Such poisons include carbon monoxide (from
car exhaust, wood-burning stoves, and furnaces), ammonia, chlorine,
insect sprays, and the gases produced from volatile liquid chemicals
, (volatile means "able to change very easily from a liquid into a gas";
many industrial solvents are volatile).
●● How do you recognize symptoms of Absorbed poisoning ?.
Answer: poisons taken into the body through unbroken skin) may or
may not damage the skin.
Many are corrosives or irritants that will injure the skin and then be
slowly absorbed into body tisues and the bloodstream, possibly causing
widespread damage.
Others are absorbed into the bloodstream without injuring the skin.
Examples of these poisons include insecticides and agricultural
chemicals. Contact with a variety of plant materials and certain forms of
marine life can lead to skin damage and possible absorption into tissues
under the skin.
●● How do you recognize a patient that is ill, because of injected
poisoning ?.
Answer: poisons inserted through the skin) enter the body through a
means that penetrates the skin.
