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15 Cards in this Set
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List the medications carried on the EMS unit
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Activated Charcoal
Oral Glucose Oxygen |
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Medications not carried on the EMS units, but EMT-b can assist patients with when approved by medicontrol
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Prescribed inhaler
Nitroglycerin Epinepherine |
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Situation when a drug should not be used because it may cause harm to the patient or offer no effect in improving the patients condition/illness
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Contraindications
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Any action of a drug other than the desired one.
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side-effects
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Dilates the arteries to increase the oxygen supply to the heart.
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Nitroglycerin
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Dilates passages to the lungs, constricts blood vessels, and increases heart rate/blood pressure.
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Epinepherine
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List the 7 routes medications are administered
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Oral, IV, Sublingual, Subcutaneous, Rectal, inhalation, transcutaneous
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Fluid build-up within the alveoli and lung tissue
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Pulmonary edema
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Disease of the lungs in which the alveoli stretch, lose elasticity, and are destroyed
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Emphysema
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Difficulty breathing
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Dyspnea
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Pulmonary edema my be produced by
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heart attack
Inhaling large amounts of smoke Traumatic chest injuries Inhaling toxic chemicals |
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Accumulation of air in the pleural space
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Pneumothorax
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Fluid outside of the lungs
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Pleural effusion
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The last step in the initial assessment is
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transport decision
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Tissue death is called
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Infarction
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