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53 Questions
Part D
1
What are the two types of
diabetic emergencies?
• Hyperglycemia - (high blood sugar)
• Hypoglycemia - (low blood sugar)
2
A person in diabetic insulin shock
is suffering from
Hypoglycemia
3
_______ _______ is a situation where a person
diagnosed with diabetes lose consciousness due to
either very high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) or very
low blood sugar (hypoglycemia).
Diabetic coma
If no medical attention seek, diabetic coma
is a life threatening condition.
4
What would you do with severed
fingers?
• Place them in a plastic bag and keep
cool.
5
How do you treat an upper arm
fracture?
• Splint
• Sling
• Swath
Splint
Sling
Swath
6
What is the symptom of a close
fracture?
• swelling
7
What would normally cause an
entrance and exit wound on a
patient?
Knife wound to the wrist
A gun shot wound to the face and neck
• Bullet
• Knife
• lightning
(electricity)
8
How would you treat a closed
chest injury?
• Use Body Substance Isolation (BSI):
blood, urine, feces, tears and
Personal Protection Equipment (PPE):
gloves, mask
• Airway, Breathing, and Circulation
(ABC)
• Perform ongoing assessment for lifethreatening injuries. Maintain ABCs,
and treat for at for shock.
9
How do oxygen get to the toes
from breathing in?
Bloodstream
10
How much do you elevate the feet
while treating for shock?
8-12 inches
11
A ________is a closed injury that
appears as a discolored lump.
Hematoma (swelling)
12
This is the obvious discoloration
(black and blue) of the soft tissue
at the injury site.
Bruising
13
This is a closed injury that is
discolored and painful at the
injury site.
Contusion (bruising)
14
A bus accident with multiple
persons onboard with injuries is a
Mass Casualty
Incident
(MCI)
15
How long should you flush
chemicals from your eyes?
16
How long should you brush
powder off the arm?
17
Where would you apply an
occlusive dressing?
Neck
Chest
abdomen
18
Where would you apply an
occlusive dressing and use
Vaseline if necessary?
Neck
chest
19
A three year old falls and scrapes
her knee. This is known as an
• abrasion
20
This is an open wound where the
organs protrude.
• Evisceration
21
This is a "shock like condition"
produced by excessive fear, joy,
anger, or grief.
Psychogenic shock.
22
This shock is cause by bleeding
out.
Hypovolemic
shock
23
What would you do if the
amniotic sac did not break as the
baby's head start to deliver?
• tear it open with your fingers and
push it away from the baby’s nose
and mouth
24
________the soles of the baby's
feet to __________ if the baby is
not breathing upon delivery.
Flick
stimulate breathing
25
If the fetus's leg or arm appears
first, a physician needs to deliver
this baby.
• Rapid
transport to
medical
facility is
crucial.
26
If the fetus's hand is on top of
head, this means ________
• the baby is coming too fast; slow it
down.
27
Treatment for seizures
• use BSI & PPE, clear the area around
patient to prevent further injury,
monitor the patient, after the seizure,
use ABCs and treat for shock.
28
What are some causes of seizures?
• Epilepsy, diabetes, shock, head injury,
trauma, stroke, high fever, poisoning,
complications from pregnancy,
unknown causes.
29
How do you get carbon monoxide
out of your body?
Breathing fresh air
30
When will you move a patient at
the scene?
• Officer safety, patient safety, gain
access to another patient.
31
When the situation is not urgent
with a patient, what should you
do?
Nothing
32
Signs of food poisoning
burns around the mouth, odd breath
odor, nausea, vomiting, stomach
pain, diarrhea, altered mental status,
breathing difficulty, seizures.
33
What are the two types of
wounds?
Open and closed
34
After initial assessment of ABCs
do secondary or physical assessment
35
Define SAMPLE
method to help officer acquire information useful in determining causes of
injury or illness.
S: signs and symptoms
Allergies: does the patient have allergies?
Medications: is the patient currently taking medications; when was the last
dose?
Past history: what other medical problems may contribute to the patient’s
current condition?
Last oral intake: when did the patient last eat or drink?
Events: what events led to this incident?
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SAMPLE
• S - Signs & symptoms (What can you see? What
does the patient feel?)
• A - allergies (Does the patient have allergies) M medications (is the patient currently taking
medications; when was last dose)
• P - Past history (what other medical problems
may contribute to patient current condition)
• L - last oral intake (when did the patient last eat
or drink)
• E- events (what events led to this situation)
37
What are the ways to control
bleeding?
• Direct pressure, pressure point,
elevation
38
What is the primary way to
control bleeding?
• Direct pressure
39
How do you treat an eyeball
laceration?
• Cover it with
a moist
dressing and
apply
bandage to
both eyes.
Avulsed eye and lacerations 40
to the
How do you treat trauma to the
eye socket that cause the eyeball
to come out of its socket?
• Do not restore
the eyeball to
the socket,
cover with
moist dressing,
bandage both
eyes
41
Avulsed eye with impaled protractor
Adequate breathing for a patient
• good chest rise, good air, capillary
refills
42
How do you treat burn patients
• ABCs, scene safety, stop the burning
43
Bright red blood spurts from a
wound, indicating a severed or
damaged artery
• Arterial bleeding
44
Dark red blood flows steady from
a wound, indicating a severed or
damaged vein.
• Venous bleeding
45
Dark red blood oozes slowly from
a wound, indicating damaged
capillaries
• Capillary bleeding
46
Two pressure points are
commonly used to control
bleeding.
• Brachial & Femoral arteries
47
The neck contains __________
• major blood vessels and the
windpipe (trachea)
48
For deep lacerations of the neck,
apply an_______dressing.
• occlusive
49
When can an impaled object be
removed?
• When its
blocking the
airway
50
Wire impaled in the hand
Capillary refills should not
________
• be great than 2 seconds.
51
Closed wound
• palpate, bruising, swelling,
distention
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Implied consent
• unconscious patient & a minor
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