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List the four meds an EMT can adminster to a pt if they are not perscribed to them?
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Oxegyn, Oral Glucose, Activated Characol, Aspirin
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List the meds an EMT can administer if the patient is perscribed to them
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Meter Dosed Inhaler, Small Volume Nebulizer, Nitro, Epinephrine
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What does nitro do for the patient, when should you adminster it?
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You adminster when a patient has Chest Pain, it dialates the blood vessels in the body, which reduces the workload for the heart
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List the 5 routes for adminstering a medication?
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Sublingual, Oral, Inhalation, Intramuscular Injection
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List the 5 rights for admistering meds
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Right patient, Right Route, Right Date, Right Dose, Right Medication, Right documentation
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What should you do both before and after adminstering meds
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VITALS!!!
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A drug or other substance that is used for remedy for illness is called a?
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Drug
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A chemical substance that is used to treat and prevent a disease or condition is called a
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Drug
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Study of drugs?
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Pharmacology
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By increasing oxygen concentration breathed in by the patient, you are attempting to put a higher concentration of oxygen into the _______ of the lungs.
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Alveoli
(this will allow more oxygen molecuels to be available to attach to the hemoglobin on the surface of the RBC)
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Glucose is a simple _________ that is found in the blood. it is the primary energy source for the body cells.
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Sugar
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Oral glucose is administered to the patient with a history of diabtetes who is suspected of having a low blood glucose level.
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True
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Oral glucose is absorbed in the mouth and through the intestines and eventually into the blood which will raise the glucose level.
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True
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______________________ is a fine black powder that is designed to absorb, or bind, an ingested poison to the characol.
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Activated characol
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Aspirin is adminstered to patients with chest discomfort or pain that is related to what?
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The lack of oxygen getting to the heart
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