BRADY 14TH EDITION EMERGENCY CARE
SECTION 3 (CHAPTERS 11-17) QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2025
Contact with or presence on material that is present or
does not belong and that is somehow hard for the
person's, animals, environment - ...ANSWER... ✔
✔Contamination
The movement of a substance through a surface or on a
molecular level, thru intact materials; penetration or
spreading - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Permeation
Infection, especially as severe, systemwide response to
infection - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Sepsis
A form of sugar, the bodies basic source of energy -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Glucose
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Chilling caused by conduction of heat from the body
and the body or clothing is wet - ...ANSWER... ✔
✔Water chill
Chilling caused by convection heat from the body in the
presence of air currents - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Wind
chill
The branch of medicine that deals with causes of obesity
as well as its prevention and treatment - ...ANSWER...
✔ ✔Bariatrics
A sudden change in sensation, behavior, or movement -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Seizure
A hormone produced by the pancreas or taken as a
medication by many diabetics - ...ANSWER... ✔
✔Insulin
Also called "sugar diabetes and "or diabetes, the
condition brought about by decreased insulin production
- ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Diabetes mellitus
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Low blood sugar - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Hypoglycemia
A generalized seizure in which the patient loses
consciousness and has jerking movements of paired of
muscle - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Tonic clonic seizure
A poorly localized, dog, or diffuse pain that arises from
the abdominal organs, or viscera - ...ANSWER... ✔
✔Visceral pain
An external pouch that collects fecal matter from the
colon or ileum thru a surgical opening in the abdominal
wall - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Ostomy bag
A medical condition that causes seizures - ...ANSWER...
✔ ✔Epilepsy
A catheter surgically inserted for long-term delivery of
medications or fluids intothe central circulation -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Central IV catheter
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An increase in body temperature above normal, which is
a life-threatening condition in its extreme - ...ANSWER...
✔ ✔Hyperthermia
Poisons are taken in the body through the unbroken skin
- ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Absorbed poisons
The sensation experience by seizure patient right before
the seizure, which might be a smell, soynd, or general
feeling - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Aura
Sending out energy, such as heat, in waves into space -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Radiation
Stimulants, such as amphetamines that affect the central
nervous system to excite the user - ...ANSWER... ✔
✔Uppers
The process of experiencing respiratory impairment
from submersion/immersion in a liquid - ...ANSWER...
✔ ✔Drowning