Chapter 54 and 55 Study Guide

  • Know what is in a medical office emergency kit

  • Who picks up an expired patient in a medical office and performs the postmortem examination

  • When an emergency call requires another person in the office to call 911, after relaying the immediate information to EMS, you should not do what?

  • Each minute of ventricular fibrillation results in what % of decrease in survival during cardiac arrest

  • Know when to use an AED during CPR

  • Know when you cannot use an AED

  • Understand the infant CPR rules 

  • DKA symptoms 

  • Know signs of a heart attack

  • Know what a patient loses when they are diaphoresis 

  • Understand heat exhaustion

  • Understand frostbite

  • Know what type of bleeding occurs from a vein

  • Know who you can and cannot do abdominal thrusts on (specifically age related)

  • Know how to perform back slaps on an infant

  • Know the definition or description of 

    • DKA

    • Diaphoresis

    • Frostbite

    • Heat cramps

    • Heat stroke

    • Trauma

    • Intubation 

    • Life-threatening

    • Poison

  • How does a MA remove a foreign body from the upper eyelid

  • What tools are used to remove splinters

  • Ice should be applied for the first _____ hours or until the swelling is reduced on a patient with a sprained ankle

  • What type of infection can possibly be transmitted through animal bites?

  • Know the definition of 

    • Thermal burns

    • Chemical burns

    • Electrical burns

  • The standard for applying heat 

  • What should be applied when a wound has been bleeding severely

  • What type of dressing/bandage is used for an injury to the arm/leg and the palm/back of hand

  • Know the different types of fractures

    • Greenstick

    • Closed

    • Transverse

    • Oblique

    • Open

    • Impacted

    • Comminuted

    • Spiral 

    • Depressed 

    • Colles

    • Potts

  • Know the definition of 

    • First degree burns

    • Second degree burns

    • Third and fourth degree burns