Airway Test UCLA EMT Questions with
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Asthma treatment - Ask if they have a MDI
- Call medical control and administer MDI with spacer
- Instruct them to inhale steadily for 5 seconds and administer MDI
Asthma MDI generic name albuterol
Signs of CO poisoning - Flu like symptoms (nausea, headache, fatigue, dizziness,
vomiting)
- multiple people in one area with similar condition
Steps of treatment for CO poisoning - Have affected people come outside if they are able
- Treat with lots of oxygen and transport to a hospital (re-breather mask)
cystic fibrosis - genetic disorder of salt balance in mucous
- Makes mucous secretions thicker
,- Leads to chronic lung infections
- Malabsorption in GI tract
- Other respiratory infections can be fatal
- 40 year life span
What is hyperventilation syndrome? Breathing to fast, pt exhales too much CO2
Reasons for hyperventilation syndrome - Too much acid in the body
- DKA
- Aspirin overdose
- Can be psychogenic (comes with dizziness, hand and feet tingling, carpopedal spasms)
Hyperventilation treatment - Give oxygen
- Coach them
- Take to hospital
congestive heart failure (CHF) - Reduced cardiac function when LV is pumping less than
RV
, - Leads to buildup of blood in pulmonary vein
- Leads to pulmonary edema when blood backs up into alveoli
Edema Buildup of liquid where it shouldn't be
Systolic heart failure Inability to pump (EF <50%)
Diastolic heart failure Inability to fill ( EF >50%)
Signs/symptoms of CHF - pulmonary edema
- severe difficulty breathing
- Usually positioning will help breathing (sitting up instead of laying down)
- dependent edema (swelling of feet/ankles)
- pink, frothy sputum
CHF treatment - position upright in fowlers
- CPAP if in distress (pushed fluid out of alveoli and back into bloodstream)
-O2 helps
Complete Solutions
Asthma treatment - Ask if they have a MDI
- Call medical control and administer MDI with spacer
- Instruct them to inhale steadily for 5 seconds and administer MDI
Asthma MDI generic name albuterol
Signs of CO poisoning - Flu like symptoms (nausea, headache, fatigue, dizziness,
vomiting)
- multiple people in one area with similar condition
Steps of treatment for CO poisoning - Have affected people come outside if they are able
- Treat with lots of oxygen and transport to a hospital (re-breather mask)
cystic fibrosis - genetic disorder of salt balance in mucous
- Makes mucous secretions thicker
,- Leads to chronic lung infections
- Malabsorption in GI tract
- Other respiratory infections can be fatal
- 40 year life span
What is hyperventilation syndrome? Breathing to fast, pt exhales too much CO2
Reasons for hyperventilation syndrome - Too much acid in the body
- DKA
- Aspirin overdose
- Can be psychogenic (comes with dizziness, hand and feet tingling, carpopedal spasms)
Hyperventilation treatment - Give oxygen
- Coach them
- Take to hospital
congestive heart failure (CHF) - Reduced cardiac function when LV is pumping less than
RV
, - Leads to buildup of blood in pulmonary vein
- Leads to pulmonary edema when blood backs up into alveoli
Edema Buildup of liquid where it shouldn't be
Systolic heart failure Inability to pump (EF <50%)
Diastolic heart failure Inability to fill ( EF >50%)
Signs/symptoms of CHF - pulmonary edema
- severe difficulty breathing
- Usually positioning will help breathing (sitting up instead of laying down)
- dependent edema (swelling of feet/ankles)
- pink, frothy sputum
CHF treatment - position upright in fowlers
- CPAP if in distress (pushed fluid out of alveoli and back into bloodstream)
-O2 helps
