You are transporting a patient who wants help to rid herself of an addiction to pain medications. She says she has not taken any pain medications since yesterday, and needs help. Which of the following would you recognize as a sign of withdrawal?
A) Her mental status decreases.
B) Her body temperature falls.
C) She starts to become agitated.
D) She begins to cry uncontrollably.
C
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Which of the following statements regarding wound-related pain is correct?
A. Patients with arterial insufficiency wounds have less pain when they elevate their involved leg than when they are in a dependent position. B. Patients with venous insufficiency wounds have less pain when they elevate their involved leg than when they are in a dependent position. C. Patients with wounds due to diabetes have less pain when they elevate their involved leg than when they are in a dependent position. D. All of the above are correct.
In most career fire departments, firefighters work __________ shifts and then are off duty for a designated period of time
a. 8-hour b. 12-hour c. 24-hour d. 48-hour
You are assisting an ALS provider to initiate IV therapy for a 62 year old with a probable ruptured spleen. She asks you to help prepare 0.9% normal saline with macrodrip tubing. While preparing the equipment you realize that she chose this combination because:
a. normal saline is an ideal solution for patients that require the administration of medications. b. macrodrip tubing has a small needle within the chamber, which is ideal for the slow infusion of fluids. c. normal saline acts as a catalyst that helps move drugs out of the bloodstream and into the tissues. d. normal saline is an ideal volume expander that is useful in treating shock.
A unique, strange, or unpredicted reaction to a drug is called:
A) an idiosyncratic reaction B) an allergic reaction C) an anaphylactic reaction D) anaphylactic shock