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EXSS 288 Exam 1 Questions and Verified
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Graded A+
Emergency Action Plan (EAP)
Ans: Primary concern is *maintaining cardiovascular and CNS functioning*
Must have a prearranged plan that can be implemented on a moments notice
included:
*How to give Emergency Care Providers directions to your location
A way to signal that you are activating EAP
Phone numbers of individuals that might be important to notify (chair of dept., business owner,
etc.)*
Good Samaritan Laws
Ans: Protect people willing to give care when they receive nothing in return
Good Samaritans:
Act in good faith
Are not negligent
Act within scope of training
Do not expect anything in return
Only when you are not on duty
consent
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Ans: Conscious adult or parent of minor
State name
Level of training
Ask permission to help
Explain suspected condition
Explain plan of care
What if they are not conscious or parent is not available?
Consent is implied, provide care
-Unconscious
Confused
Mentally Impaired
Seriously injured or seriously ill
say no?
Call EMS and document! Inform victim why they need care and what may happen if they do
not receive it.
*****Witness documentation
wait for them to go unconscious
Advance directives
Ans: are written instructions that describe the wishes of a person regarding medical treatment
or health care decisions in the event that the person were to become incapacitated and could
no longer express his or her wishes.
DNR (do-not-resuscitate order)
Living Will
Power of attorney
battery
Ans: Unlawful, harmful or offensive touching of a person w/o consent
This is why you must get consent prior to caring for a conscious adult victim
abandonment
Ans: Must provide care until advanced medical personnel arrives
Unless....
Scene becomes unsafe
You are too tired to continue
Victim shows obvious signs of life
HIPAA
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Ans: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
Bloodborne Pathogens?
Ans: Bacteria and viruses present in blood and body fluids that can cause disease in humans
Diseases of primary concern
Ans: Hepatitis B - liver infection (HBV)
3 part vaccine
Hepatitis C - liver infection (HCV
Most common chronic bloodborne infection in U.S.
#1 cause of liver transplant
No vaccine, no treatment
HIV
Shows no symptoms
Causes AIDS
how are pathogens spread?
Ans: Pathogens are not spread by caughing/sneezing, only through blood or mucus (ex.
Blood splashing in the eye)
Viral infections must feed off of DNA and RNA of host cell; cant kill virus
Four conditions that must be met for transmission:
A pathogen is present.
There is enough of the pathogen present to cause disease.
A person is susceptible to the pathogen.
The pathogen passes through the correct entry site.
Direct contact, indirect contact, droplet transmission and vector-borne transmission
process of getting a virus or bacterial infection
Ans: germ/pathogen enters the body (barriers fail)
Once inside, overwhelm the immune system and body fights back (BacteriaCAN LIVE OUTSIDE
BODY, viruses cannot)
Bacterial infections antibiotics
differences between virus and bacteria
Ans: (Bacteria CAN LIVE OUTSIDE BODY, viruses cannot)
transmission types
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EXSS 288 Exam 1 Questions and Verified
Answers (100% Correct Answers) /Already
Graded A+
Emergency Action Plan (EAP)
Ans: Primary concern is *maintaining cardiovascular and CNS functioning*
Must have a prearranged plan that can be implemented on a moments notice
included:
*How to give Emergency Care Providers directions to your location
A way to signal that you are activating EAP
Phone numbers of individuals that might be important to notify (chair of dept., business owner,
etc.)*
Good Samaritan Laws
Ans: Protect people willing to give care when they receive nothing in return
Good Samaritans:
Act in good faith
Are not negligent
Act within scope of training
Do not expect anything in return
Only when you are not on duty
consent
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Ans: Conscious adult or parent of minor
State name
Level of training
Ask permission to help
Explain suspected condition
Explain plan of care
What if they are not conscious or parent is not available?
Consent is implied, provide care
-Unconscious
Confused
Mentally Impaired
Seriously injured or seriously ill
say no?
Call EMS and document! Inform victim why they need care and what may happen if they do
not receive it.
*****Witness documentation
wait for them to go unconscious
Advance directives
Ans: are written instructions that describe the wishes of a person regarding medical treatment
or health care decisions in the event that the person were to become incapacitated and could
no longer express his or her wishes.
DNR (do-not-resuscitate order)
Living Will
Power of attorney
battery
Ans: Unlawful, harmful or offensive touching of a person w/o consent
This is why you must get consent prior to caring for a conscious adult victim
abandonment
Ans: Must provide care until advanced medical personnel arrives
Unless....
Scene becomes unsafe
You are too tired to continue
Victim shows obvious signs of life
HIPAA
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Ans: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
Bloodborne Pathogens?
Ans: Bacteria and viruses present in blood and body fluids that can cause disease in humans
Diseases of primary concern
Ans: Hepatitis B - liver infection (HBV)
3 part vaccine
Hepatitis C - liver infection (HCV
Most common chronic bloodborne infection in U.S.
#1 cause of liver transplant
No vaccine, no treatment
HIV
Shows no symptoms
Causes AIDS
how are pathogens spread?
Ans: Pathogens are not spread by caughing/sneezing, only through blood or mucus (ex.
Blood splashing in the eye)
Viral infections must feed off of DNA and RNA of host cell; cant kill virus
Four conditions that must be met for transmission:
A pathogen is present.
There is enough of the pathogen present to cause disease.
A person is susceptible to the pathogen.
The pathogen passes through the correct entry site.
Direct contact, indirect contact, droplet transmission and vector-borne transmission
process of getting a virus or bacterial infection
Ans: germ/pathogen enters the body (barriers fail)
Once inside, overwhelm the immune system and body fights back (BacteriaCAN LIVE OUTSIDE
BODY, viruses cannot)
Bacterial infections antibiotics
differences between virus and bacteria
Ans: (Bacteria CAN LIVE OUTSIDE BODY, viruses cannot)
transmission types
