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✔✔Malaria - ✔✔A disease caused by mosquitoes implanting parasites in the blood.
febrile illness
✔✔How long can it take for symptoms of malaria to appear? - ✔✔7-30 days
✔✔What is the treatment for malaria? - ✔✔chemoprophylaxis
✔✔Dengue fever, Yellow fever - ✔✔Aedes mosquito
✔✔encephalitis - ✔✔Aedes and culex mosquito
✔✔What can be spread through flies and roaches? - ✔✔Cholera, dysentery, typhoid,
and food borne gastroenteritis
✔✔What can you get from an infected bite from a sand flie - ✔✔Leishmaniasis
✔✔What can you get from bio warfare agents? - ✔✔Plague and typhus, tularemia
✔✔What is the most efficient anthropoid and why? - ✔✔Ticks because females can
pass pathogen onto offspring
✔✔Main symptom of Lyme disease? - ✔✔Stiff neck and bullseye
✔✔What do mites give you? - ✔✔Scabies
✔✔What are the three types lice? - ✔✔head lice, body lice, crab lice
✔✔What are the three types of heat injuries? - ✔✔heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heat
stroke
✔✔What % of people will die from heat exhaustion if not treated? - ✔✔80%
✔✔When should you start hydrating? - ✔✔72hrs prior
✔✔How do you physically handle someone with hypothermia and why? - ✔✔Gently
because you can send them into v-vib
✔✔What are the non freezing injuries? - ✔✔hypothermia, chilblain, immersion
syndrome, snow blindness
, ✔✔How do you deal with frostbite? - ✔✔below 32 degrees, feels like a piece of wood,
warm sl;owly rewarming will be painful
✔✔How long will it take for frostbite to be evident? - ✔✔24-48 hrs
✔✔How much increase of temp does an IBA have? - ✔✔10 degrees
✔✔what is the max amount of water intake daily - ✔✔12 quarts
✔✔COLD - ✔✔C keep clothing Clean
O avoid Overheating
L Loose and Layers
D Keep clothing Dry
✔✔how long does it take to acclimated to an environment? - ✔✔2 weeks
✔✔What is the elevation in which an injury MAY occur? - ✔✔6500
✔✔What is the elevation that injuries USUALLY BEGIN at? - ✔✔10000 ft
✔✔AMS - ✔✔Acute mountain sickness: most common, stop ascend immediately
✔✔HACE - ✔✔High altitude cerebral edema: brain swelling due to too rapid incline,
symptoms are massive headache, blurry vision,
descend immediately,happens in between 10000ft and 12000 ft.
✔✔HAPE - ✔✔high altitude pulmonary edema: fluid in alveoli, rapid ascend.
descend immediately 10000ft to 12000 ft
✔✔Staged - ✔✔Stay for 3 days
✔✔Graded - ✔✔up to 1000 ft a day
✔✔What is the most effective way to continue incline? - ✔✔a combination of staged
and graded
✔✔When dealing with a suicidal person what do you do?> - ✔✔Remove potential
means
ask directly
convey concern
get professional help
✔✔What are the three symbols of health care? - ✔✔Red and white cross, crescent and
diamond