Chap 16

Question 1

Pharmacology

Answer 1

the study of drugs, their sources, their characteristics, and their effect

Question 2

EMTs are allowed to administer what drugs?

Answer 2

Aspirin, oral glucose, oxygen, and activated charcoal

Question 3

Aspirin

Answer 3

• chest pain of a suspected cardiac origin
• aspirin reduces the blood’s ability to clot and works to prevent the clot formation that causes damage to the heart
• chewable children’s aspirin

Question 4

Oral glucose

Answer 4

Glucose is a kind of sugar

• Taken by mouth of a conscious patient (who is able to swallow) with an altered mental status and a history of diabetes
• comes in a tube of gel
• Applied to a tongue depressor and placed between the patients cheek and gum or under the tongue
• low blood sugar effects the brain and causes the altered mental status

Question 5

Oxygen

Answer 5

Used to treat patients with hypoxia or danger of hypoxia

Question 6

Activated charcoal

Answer 6

• Powder form that’s prepared from charred wood, usually premixed with water to form a slurry for use in the field
• Used to treat poisoning or overdose when a substance is swallowed and is in the patients digestive tract
• Charcoal binds itself to the poison and helps prevent them from being absorbed by the bod

Question 7

Drugs EMT’s may assist patient with

Answer 7

Bronchodilators
Nitroglycerin
Epinephrine

Question 8

Epinephrine

Answer 8

-Constricts the blood vessels and relax airway passages
-Used for highly allergic reactions
Different auto-injectors
-Epi-pen
- Auvi-Q- has voice commands
-Twinject- has 2 doses of epinephrine