environmentalquiz.txt

You are called to football training camp in late August. The football player you are treating has been exercising in the sun and sweating profusely. He has been drinking water at regular intervals throughout the day. His skin is hot and sweaty, and he is alert and normotensive. This patient is likely to complain of:

The most efficient in-hospital technique to warm a hypothermic body is:

Rebound hypothermia can be avoided by:

You are called to football training camp in late August. The football player you are treating has been exercising in the sun and sweating profusely. He has been drinking water at regular intervals throughout the day. His skin is hot and sweaty, and he is alert and normotensive. Treatment for this patient includes:

A process resulting in primary respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in a liquid medium is defined as:

Which factors most influence survival after drowning?

You are called to a snow-covered cabin. The ambient temperature has been 10� F for more than 1 week. A hiker tells you that he believes a man has been in the cabin for 2 days without heat, food, or water. When you examine the patient he is bradycardic and Osborn waves are visible on the ECG. He is not shivering and has a depressed level of consciousness. You would expect this patient�s core body temperature to be:

One of the most common afflictions of scuba divers when tissue damage from compression or expansion of gas spaces occurs is called:

An illness that results from rapid ascent in a high altitude by unacclimatized persons, characterized by headache, vomiting and dizziness is:

Preventive measures that can be taken to reduce the risk for external heat illness for all age groups include:

The most important body organ(s) for regulating heat loss is (are) the:

The mammalian diving reflex occurs when:

ECG changes expected for a severely hypothermic patient include:

Heat loss by air flowing around your body on a windy day is called:

You are called to the home of a 50-year-old patient who has been working on his roof for the last 3 hours. Your patient is lying out in the middle of his yard. Examination reveals that the patient has a temperature of 105� F and is confused, flushed, and tachycardic. Your initial management therapies of this patient should include:

Exertional heat stroke occurs when:

You are called to a snow-covered cabin. The ambient temperature has been 10� F for more than 1 week. A hiker tells you that he believes a man has been in the cabin for 2 days without heat, food, or water. When you examine the patient he is bradycardic and Osborn waves are visible on the ECG. He is not shivering and has a depressed level of consciousness. This patient is displaying signs and symptoms of:

When the hypothalamus receives a stimulus that the core body temperature is increasing it compensates by:

A complication of pulmonary barotrauma and a major cause of death among sport divers is:

The tissues that produce the most heat in humans are:

Initially, exposure to cold results in:

Expansion of trapped air in the lungs from reverse squeeze can result in:

Shivering generally stops when:

Sympathetic discharge of epinephrine and norepinephrine can lead to heat regulation by causing:

A cold injury that occurs from immersion of extremities in water above 32� F is called:

An illness that results from rapid ascent in a high altitude by unacclimatized persons, characterized by headache, vomiting and dizziness is:

You are called to a snow-covered cabin. The ambient temperature has been 10� F for more than 1 week. A hiker tells you that he believes a man has been in the cabin for 2 days without heat, food, or water. When you examine the patient he is bradycardic and Osborn waves are visible on the ECG. He is not shivering and has a depressed level of consciousness. Treatment for this patient includes:

The body's thermoregulatory center is found in the posterior:

You are treating a patient with a markedly increased core body temperature who is unresponsive. If this patient has heat stroke:

A complication of pulmonary barotrauma and a major cause of death among sport divers is:

Medical direction may prescribe a pharmacological agent for sedation and seizure control in a heat stroke patient such as:

The most important body organ for regulating heat loss is the:

You are called to the home of a 50-year-old patient who has been working on his roof for the last 3 hours. Your patient is lying out in the middle of his yard. Examination reveals that the patient has a temperature of 105� F and is confused, flushed, and tachycardic. Your initial management therapies of this patient should include:

The most effective therapeutic measure for preserving viable tissue after a deep frostbite injury is:

Cold injury to the extremities that presents with throbbing pain, tingling, blisters, and skin that blackens into a hard eschar after rewarming is:

Medications that contribute to classic heat stroke by impairing the body's ability to tolerate heat stress include:

Peripheral thermoreceptors are located in the:

Muscles fatigued by heavy exercise that are depleted of water and sodium predispose the patient to:

You are called to a snow-covered cabin. The ambient temperature has been 10� F for more than 1 week. A hiker tells you that he believes a man has been in the cabin for 2 days without heat, food, or water. When you examine the patient he is bradycardic and Osborn waves are visible on the ECG. He is not shivering and has a depressed level of consciousness.

Two factors that contribute significantly to the successful outcome of a patient experiencing heat stroke are:

Shivering generally stops when:

You are called to football training camp in late August. The football player you are treating has been exercising in the sun and sweating profusely. He has been drinking water at regular intervals throughout the day. His skin is hot and sweaty, and he is alert and normotensive.

Initially, exposure to cold results in:

You are called to football training camp in late August. The football player you are treating has been exercising in the sun and sweating profusely. He has been drinking water at regular intervals throughout the day. His skin is hot and sweaty, and he is alert and normotensive. If this player had continued to exercise without treatment and he developed dizziness and changes in mental status with mild to moderate core body temperature elevation, this syndrome would be called heat:

The most efficient in-hospital technique to warm a hypothermic body is:

Production of heat by the body is known as:

Classic heat stroke occurs when:

You are called to football training camp in late August. The football player you are treating has been exercising in the sun and sweating profusely. He has been drinking water at regular intervals throughout the day. His skin is hot and sweaty, and he is alert and normotensive. You would expect this patient�s core body temperature to be:

The most severe form of high-altitude illness that presents with signs and symptoms of increased intracranial pressures is:

You are called to football training camp in late August. The football player you are treating has been exercising in the sun and sweating profusely. He has been drinking water at regular intervals throughout the day. His skin is hot and sweaty, and he is alert and normotensive. If his thermoregulatory mechanisms had totally broken down and his body temperature became elevated to levels of 41� C or higher, this syndrome would be called heat:

You are called to a snow-covered cabin. The ambient temperature has been 10� F for more than 1 week. A hiker tells you that he believes a man has been in the cabin for 2 days without heat, food, or water. When you examine the patient he is bradycardic and Osborn waves are visible on the ECG. He is not shivering and has a depressed level of consciousness. This patient�s response to hypothermia might be impaired if he is taking medications such as:

Medications that contribute to classic heat stroke by impairing the body's ability to tolerate heat stress include:

The syndrome that results when nitrogen in compressed air converts back from solution to gas is:

If a hypothermic patient in cardiac arrest does not respond to 1 defibrillation , you should:

Expansion of trapped air in the lungs from reverse squeeze can result in:

Increased core body temperatures can result in cerebral:

The tissues that produce the most heat in humans are:

The body's best defense against cold is:

One of the most common afflictions of scuba divers when tissue damage from compression or expansion of gas spaces occurs is called:

Heat loss by air flowing around your body on a windy day is called:

The most significant finding the paramedic has available to differentiate increased body temperature from illness and from heat stroke is:

Medical direction may prescribe a pharmacological agent for sedation and seizure control in a heat stroke patient such as:

You are called to football training camp in late August. The football player you are treating has been exercising in the sun and sweating profusely. He has been drinking water at regular intervals throughout the day. His skin is hot and sweaty, and he is alert and normotensive.

Rapid rewarming of a severely hypothermic patient by immersion into hot water may result in hypotension from peripheral vasodilation. This is known as:

Your 18-year-old patient was rescued after struggling under water in a swimming pool. Which of the following findings would indicate that it is critical that she be transported for evaluation at a hospital?

If a hypothermic patient in cardiac arrest does not respond to 1 defibrillation , you should:

The body's thermoregulatory center is found in the posterior:

Production of heat by the body is known as:

A cold injury that occurs from immersion of extremities in water above 32� F is called:

Sympathetic discharge of epinephrine and norepinephrine can lead to heat regulation by causing:

Expansion of trapped air in the lungs from reverse squeeze can result in:

Exertional heat stroke occurs when:

A process resulting in primary respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in a liquid medium is defined as:

Two factors that contribute significantly to the successful outcome of a patient experiencing heat stroke are:

The most severe form of high-altitude illness that presents with signs and symptoms of increased intracranial pressures is: