WEST COAST EMT BLOCK 3 STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS 202 4
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What is the treatment for a patient showing signs and symptoms of difficulty breathing?
- ANSWER✔✔Provide oxygen or ventilation
- Cover other eye
- Secure PRESSURE dressing over wound.
- Immobilize C-spine and place cervical collar.
How do you treat eye injuries? - ANSWER✔✔1. Apply moist sterile dressing on injured eye.
How to treat a neck injury: - ANSWER✔✔1. If open neck injury, then apply pressure and apply OCCLUSIVE dressing.
An open neck injury can cause? - ANSWER✔✔An air embolism if the vein of the neck are open to the environment.index of suspicion - ANSWER✔✔Awareness that unseen life-threatening injuries may exist when determining the mechanism of injury.How do you treat small animal bite wounds? - ANSWER✔✔Place a dry, sterile dressing over the wound, and promptly transport the patient to the ED. If an arm or leg is injured, splint the extremity.
Don't enter scene until the animal is secure by the police or animal control.How do you treat a patient with human bites? - ANSWER✔✔1. apply a dry, sterile dressing
- promptly immobilize the area with a splint or a bandage.
- provide transport to the ED for surgical cleansing of the wound and antibiotic therapy.
what is a hemostatic agent? - ANSWER✔✔Any chemical compound that slows or stops bleeding by assisting with clot formation. Primarily used in military medicine to stop bleeding. 1 / 3
Granular powder and gauze impregnated.
S/S of abdominal bleeding: - ANSWER✔✔abdominal tenderness
guarding rigidity pain distention
In older patients, dizziness, faintness, or weakness What are clues to the severity of an injury in a vehicle? - ANSWER✔✔- The classic "Star" on the windshield
- broken steering wheel
- ejection from the vehicle
- death of an occupant in the vehicle
- rollover and spins
- severe damage from the rear
- severe damage to front/side of the vehicle
- serious chest and abdominal injuries from the steering wheel
- head and spinal injuries from face and head hitting the windshield.
- internal organ injury from seatbelt
- assess pulse, manual function and sensation in extremities and assess cervical area
- apply cervical colar
- position device
- log roll patient onto device. 2 / 3
What are injuries associated with rapid deceleration forces to the head and body? - ANSWER✔✔- hip fracture or dislocation from knees hitting dashboard
What is a short backboard or vest-style immobilization device used for? - ANSWER✔✔Patients who are sitting after a vehicle crash and have possible spinal injuries.Back Boarding procedures - ANSWER✔✔- provide manual, in-line support of head
- fill spaces with padding
- secure torse (chest, pelvis, legs), then secure head
- reassess pulse, motor function, and extremities
- lift backboard and go
- it does not interfere with assessment and treatment of airway or ventilation problems
- you can properly immobilize spine
- if there is any chance that removing it will further injure the patient
- it makes assessing/managing airway problems difficult and removal of face guard to
- it prevents from properly immobilizing spine
- it allows excessive head movement
- cardiac arrest
When do you leave the helmet on? - ANSWER✔✔1. there are no impending airway or breathing problems
when do you remove the helmet? - ANSWER✔✔1. it is a full-face helmet
improve airway access is not possible
How high should the head be elevated when transporting a person with ICP on a backboard? - ANSWER✔✔In supine patients, the head should be elevated 30 degrees Treatment for sucking chest wound: - ANSWER✔✔After clearing and maintaining the airway and then providing oxygen, rapidly seal the open wound with an occlusive dressing.
2 types of occlusive dressings:
- commercial vented
- improvised occlusive dressing (petroleum jelly- based gauze, aluminum foil/plastic)
- avoid taking deep breaths
- rapid and shallow breathing
- hold affected portion of the rib cage
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signs and symptoms of rib fractures: - ANSWER✔✔- localized tenderness and pain when breathing