First Responder MPTC Exam
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Definition of medical signs - ✔✔Any objective evidence of something. You can visually
see it.
Definition of medical symptom - ✔✔A physical or mental problem that a person
experiences, it cannot be seen.
What is a possible effect of internal bleeding? - ✔✔Shock
Shock is defined as? - ✔✔Failure of the circulatory system. State of collapse. Results in
inadequate delivery of blood to the organs.
More trauma patients die from what? Than from any other conviction - ✔✔Shock
Three primary causes of circulatory failure? - ✔✔Pump failure, Fluid loss, Pipe failure
What is Pipe failure caused by? - ✔✔Expansion, constriction and ultimately the
breakage of the vessel
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, Definition of Pump failure? - ✔✔Cardiogenic shock occurs if the heart cannot pump
enough blood to supply the needs of the body
Pump failure can result from? - ✔✔Heart attack
Why do you document things when responding to medical emergencies - ✔✔So you
can pass off information to the EMT/paramedics.
Third Degree Burn - ✔✔Full thickness burn, Pain is absent because the nerve endings
have been destroyed.
Signs and symptoms of anaphylactic shock - ✔✔Itching, hives, swelling, severe
respiratory distress, rapid weak pulse
Who do you place into the recovery position? - ✔✔Unconscious patients who have not
suffered trauma, unconscious but breathing.
Heat exhaustion - ✔✔When person is exposed to temps great than 80 degrees, Profuse
sweating, light headed, dizzy, nausea, weak pulse.
Heat Stroke - ✔✔Flushed dry skin, semiconscious or unconscious internal temp as high
as 106 degrees
Treatment for absorbed poisons - ✔✔Patient no longer in contact, brush off any dry
substance, do not wash
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Definition of medical signs - ✔✔Any objective evidence of something. You can visually
see it.
Definition of medical symptom - ✔✔A physical or mental problem that a person
experiences, it cannot be seen.
What is a possible effect of internal bleeding? - ✔✔Shock
Shock is defined as? - ✔✔Failure of the circulatory system. State of collapse. Results in
inadequate delivery of blood to the organs.
More trauma patients die from what? Than from any other conviction - ✔✔Shock
Three primary causes of circulatory failure? - ✔✔Pump failure, Fluid loss, Pipe failure
What is Pipe failure caused by? - ✔✔Expansion, constriction and ultimately the
breakage of the vessel
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, Definition of Pump failure? - ✔✔Cardiogenic shock occurs if the heart cannot pump
enough blood to supply the needs of the body
Pump failure can result from? - ✔✔Heart attack
Why do you document things when responding to medical emergencies - ✔✔So you
can pass off information to the EMT/paramedics.
Third Degree Burn - ✔✔Full thickness burn, Pain is absent because the nerve endings
have been destroyed.
Signs and symptoms of anaphylactic shock - ✔✔Itching, hives, swelling, severe
respiratory distress, rapid weak pulse
Who do you place into the recovery position? - ✔✔Unconscious patients who have not
suffered trauma, unconscious but breathing.
Heat exhaustion - ✔✔When person is exposed to temps great than 80 degrees, Profuse
sweating, light headed, dizzy, nausea, weak pulse.
Heat Stroke - ✔✔Flushed dry skin, semiconscious or unconscious internal temp as high
as 106 degrees
Treatment for absorbed poisons - ✔✔Patient no longer in contact, brush off any dry
substance, do not wash
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