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Question 1

What is the term for life threatening problems or injuries that are identified and then handled?

Answer 1

Primary Assessment

Question 2

What does ABCDE stand for?

Answer 2

Airway, Breathing, Circulation/Bleeding, Disability, Expose/Examine

Question 3

What is the most common healthcare aquired infection?

Answer 3

Catheter associated infections

Question 4

TIA

Answer 4

Transcient Ischemic Attack

Question 5

syncope?

Answer 5

fainting

Question 6

What is the term for substances that burn or destroy flesh?

Answer 6

Caustic substances

Question 7

CMS

Answer 7

Color, Motion, Sensitivity

Question 8

The term for a tooth that has been pushed back into the socket?

Answer 8

Intrusion injury

Question 9

Epitaxis?

Answer 9

Nosebleed

Question 10

The term used for the loss of blood volume?

Answer 10

Hypovolemic

Question 11

What are the four types of transmission based precautions?

Answer 11

Airbourne, Contact, Droplet and Neuropenic

Question 12

A misleading term often used for someone who dies while choking often after going to the restroom to avoid someone noticing?

Answer 12

Cafe coronary

Question 13

Serious, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction that can occur with in seconds of exposure?

Answer 13

Anaphylaxis

Question 14

The term for permanant, irreversible cessation of the body’s physical and chemical processes; death at a cellular level.

Answer 14

Biological Death

Question 15

The term for the emergency removal of a victim performed only when the danger of injury by remaining in the same place is greater than the risk of aggrivating existing injuries by moving.

Answer 15

Extrication

Question 16

Term used for the collapse of a lung due to air or gas into the space between the lung and chest wall; the air pushes on the outside of the lung causing it to collapse?

Answer 16

Pneumothorax