heat injuries

True

1. True or False If you have to be out in hot environments, you must take precautions to prevent heat emergencies.

Digesting salt pulls water away from your muscles.

2. Why should you stay away from salt if you are going to be involved in some type of activity in the heat?

Heat exhaustion

3. The following list of symptoms are related to which type of heat injury?

• Heavy sweating

• Rapid breathing and

pulse

• Fainting or dizziness

• Nausea

• Vomiting

• Exhaustion

A) Heat fatigue

B) Heat stroke

C) Heat cramps

D) Heat exhaustion

Give a full glass of cool water every 5 minutes

4. Which of the following is incorrect for treatment of heat cramps?

A) Get the victim to a cooler location.

B) Loosen the victim's clothing

C) Give a full glass of cool water every 5 minutes

D) Discontinue liquids, if victim is nauseated.

Heat stroke

5. Which of the following is a life-threatening emergency created as a result of the body's inability to regulate its core temperature?

A) Heat fatigue

B) Heat stroke

C) Heat cramps

D) Heat exhaustion

Eat high sodium foods to replace the salt lost during perspiration.

6. You are in charge of a community service project. Today's weather report indicates that it is going to be hot and humid. Your volunteers are going to be working outside all day, and they have a number of tasks that have to be completed by the end of the day. You wrote some notes about heat injuries to help educate the volunteers, but you notice that one of them is incorrect.

Which of the following notes is incorrect?

A) Eat high sodium foods to replace the salt lost during perspiration.

B) Drink at least one quart of water every hour.

C) Wear loose fitting clothes that protect you from the sun.

D) Do the most strenuous activities early or late in the day.

Avoid hard work in hot weather.

7. You're a platoon sergeant. Today's weather report indicated that it was going to be hot and humid. Your squads are going to be working outside all day, and they have a number of tasks that have to be completed today. You wrote some notes about heat injuries to help you brief the squad leaders, but you notice that one of them is incorrect.

Which one of your following notes should you not brief to your squad leaders?

A) Avoid hard work in hot weather.

B) Have all Cadets drink at least one quart of water every hour.

C) Schedule required strenuous activities earlier and later in the day.

D) Identify fatigued Cadets. Cadets who have had previous heat related injuries and monitor them closely.

Treatment for heat exhaustion

8. Read the following passage and select which type of treatment it describes.

"Move the victim to a cool, shady area; loosen the victim's clothing; pour water on or apply a cool wet cloth to the victim's skin; if possible, fan the victim; have the victim slowly drink one quart of water; elevate the victim's legs; monitor the victim until symptoms are gone, and seek medical aid if they continue; keep the victim from strenuous activities for the rest of the day."

A) Treatment for heat fatigue

B) Treatment for heat exhaustion

C) Treatment for heatstroke

D) Treatment for heat cramps

heat stroke

9. On a hot summer day, you look out your window at your neighbor working in her garden. Suddenly, you see her collapse. You rush outside, and she is trying to get up, but she doesn't know where she is, and she says, "I think I'm going to vomit." As you try to help her sit up, her skin seems very hot and very dry, and she doesn't seem to be perspiring.

You realize she needs immediate aid so you move her quickly to a shady spot and start treating her for __.

A) heat stroke

B) heat fatigue

C) heat cramps

Adding a large amount of salt to his food

10. Read the paragraph below, and decide which option (A-D) is correct.

Jesse knew he was going to be working outside in hot, humid weather the next day, so he started preparing himself in order to avoid heat injuries. He drank one quart of water an hour, and he put a large amount of salt in his food to replace the water and salt he would lose. He chose loose clothing made out of natural fibers that would cover most of his skin. Since he was going to wear some heavy protective clothing, he planned his hardest work in the cooler hours of early morning and late afternoon.

Of all of his actions, which one is most likely to cause a heat injury?

A) Drinking only one quart of water each hour

B) Adding a large amount of salt to his food

C) Wearing loose clothing made of natural fibers

D) Planning his hardest work too early or too late

Salt causes the body to retain unnecessary water, in turn increasing blood pressure.

11. Why is excessive intake of salt bad for the body?

A) It makes you thirsty.

B) Salt is not a natural product and is therefore bad for you.

C) Salt causes the body to excrete water, in turn decreasing blood pressure.

D) Salt causes the body to retain unnecessary water, in turn increasing blood pressure.

perspiration or perspiring

12. Another name for the sweat evaporation that carries heat away from the body is .

A) self-regulation

B) perspiration or perspiring

C) condensation

D) evaporation

Dehydration

13. _ is the condition that results when fluids are lost from the body and not replaced.

A) Concentration

B) Evaporation

C) Starvation

D) Dehydration

Cotton clothing

14. When in a high heat or high humidity environment, what type of clothing should be worn to prevent heat exhaustion?

A) As little clothing as possible or proper

B) Synthetic clothing

C) Cotton clothing

D) Silk clothing

Heat cramps

15. are muscular pains and spasms that are caused by loss of salt from the body due to heavy perspiration.

A) The Bends

B) Sciatica

C) Backaches

D) Heat cramps

When the body loses a great amount of fluid through heavy perspiration, less blood flows to vital organs, resulting in a form of shock.

16. What physiological event takes place during heat exhaustion?