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1
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List 5 stressors and rate them

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  • cut finger -mild
  • bee sting -mild
  • dehydrated -mild
  • auto accident -severe
  • broken leg -severe
2
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Possible consequence of extreme disruption of homeostasis

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Death

3
Q

Describe 4 health risks that humans bring upon themselves

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  • drinking
  • smoking
  • speeding
  • not wearing a seatbelt
4
Q

Briefly describe a decision that involves ethics

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Vaccines, can’t force someone to have them, but not being vaccinated put others at risk

5
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stressors

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anything sensory nerves identify

6
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triage

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deciding who should be treated first, by rank

7
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vital signs

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blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, respiration rate

8
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prognosis

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chances of living

9
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pathogen

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living thing that infects the body

10
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antibodies

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proteins produced by white blood cells, and destroy antigens

11
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antigens

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foreign protein

12
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histamines

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allergies, rash, sore threat and watery eyes

13
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antihistamines

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destroy/counter attack histamines

14
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autoimmune disease

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when the body attacks itself

15
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memory of infection

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when the body remembers infections it has come in contact with

16
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vaccination

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a weakened, dead or toxin form of a disease injected into the body