ESP ( Emergency Care)

Quiz 2

Select the best choice.

1. A variety of medical emergencies can -----exposure to heat or cold.

        a. result from          b. result in               c. lead to                d. cause

2.There is a range of medical emergencies that -----water recreation.

        a. result in               b. arise from           c. bring about         d. caused by

3. Some medical emergencies require ----treatment in the hospital.

        a. localized              b. systemic             c. vital                    d. prompt

4. When the entire body temperature -----, the condition is called hypothermia.

        a. goes up               b. rises                   c. falls                    d. increases

5. At temperature below freezing, the patient may ---frostbite.

        a. drown                 b. strand                 c. suffer                  d. follow

6. Hypothermia has ---- many natural disasters.

        a. complicated        b. happened            c. occurred             d. progressed

7. At body temperatures below 90 degrees F , shivering gradually ----.

        a. trembles              b. ceases                c. approaches         d. radiates

8. Hypothermia is a/an -----condition that is difficult to recognize in its early stage.

        a. initial                   b. terminal               c. exhausted            d. insidious

9. Hypothermia is -----lethal.

        a. effortlessly          b. sluggishly            c. arbitrarily            d. potentially

10. Ventricular fibrillation can occur ----at body temperature of 77 degrees.

        a. efficiently            b. atypically            c. spontaneously     d. regularly

11. Subdermal means -------.

        a. below the skin     b. below the orbit    c. under the chin     d. of the navel

12. Which of the following suffix does NOT mean "related to"?

        a. –ary                    b. –ous                   c. –al                      d. –oid

13. It is a ----poison; it is likely that it causes ----.

        a. dead/died            b. deadly/death       c. dying/dead          d. dead/deadly

14. Heat exhaustion is also called heat -----.

        a. profusion            b. protrusion           c. prostration          d. prevention

15. The mortality rate outside a hospital is high for patients who have a ----temperature below 90 degrees F.

        a. survival               b. pleural                c. rectal                  d. cerebral

16. Individuals with subacute and chronic hypothermia are----.

        a. rendered              b. revitalized           c. dehydrated          d. stabilized

17. The cold patients will have slow ----and low blood pressure.

        a. respiration           b. perspiration         c. inspiration           d. expiration

18. Any rescue breathing should be performed ----mouth-to-mask.

        a. via                      b. from                   c. thorough             d. as

19. CPR may actually ----ventricular fibrillation in a patient with a pulse that is weak or slow enough.

        a. aggregate             b. precipitate           c. aggravate            d. persist

20. In very cold patients, CPR may be impossible because the chest is ----.

        a. comprehensible   b. unresponsive       c. constricted          d. incompressible