Emergency Medicine

If he knows what it is that poisoned him, then he administers the appropriate cure onto himself or goes directly to a hospital.

To use an EpiPen, simply take it out and remove the cap. Using your outer thigh, push the top of it hard against it. Then inject yourself. The EpiPen is designed to stick you though clothes. This including Denim Jeans. Replace the cap and go to a Hospital for further treatment.

a first aid kit of course

(Addition from another user) Another meaning of a "Red Blanket Case" was a patient who presented following an abortion who was bleeding heavily, thus staining the ambulance and hospital blankets red. This used to happen a great deal when illegal abortions were common, as a woman who started bleeding would tend not to go to hospital until she was in a dire situation, for fear of attracting the authorities. Doctors used to dread Monday mornings when all the problems from Friday night abortions would show up, and entire wards would be filled with the after-effects of the abortions, such as infections, haemmorages and other such.

Legal abortion, while it does (like any other procedure) have some risks, tends not to produce these shocking cases. Women who have any sort of after-effect are asked to go straight to hospital or their local medical centre, for timely antibiotics or other medical attention. Procedures are carried out in proper hospitals and clinics rather than in the non-sterilised hotel rooms or offices where the illegal ones used to happen, and the doctors performing them now have proper equipment, training and backup. A legal abortion in the first trimester is still statistically safer than bearing a child to term.

Unless the pads are directly covering a piercing, they do not need to be removed. They may cause arcing and burning if they are located directly adjacent to or underneath an AED pad.

Once you apply a tourniquet, you should never loosen it until you are ready to remove it.

Morphology is the study of how something heals. It consists of the ways something heals and what the body needs to do so.

While there may be exceptions for the most part yellow or tan colored tourniquets are made from latex and blue tourniquets are made from nitrile or similar synthetic. Latex allergies can be severe and life-threatening so using a latex tourniquet on a latex-sensitive patient can have serious complications. That is why many healthcare providers have switched to non-latex alternatives which are usually blue.

When applying the Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT), it should be tightened until the bleeding stops, typically requiring you to turn the windlass rod until the blood flow is controlled. You should not loosen the tourniquet once it is applied; doing so can lead to renewed bleeding. The CAT is designed for single-use, and if bleeding persists, a second tourniquet can be applied above the first. Always monitor the casualty for signs of shock and seek immediate medical assistance.

Many people have drowned in their own blood following an accident which resulted in the lungs being punctured and filling with blood. If emergency medical treatment is not performed immediately, the person can drown in their own blood very quickly, similar to one drowning in water.

Either on line, or at a local pharmacy.

In phlebotomy, the tourniquet should be tight enough to obstruct venous outflow, but not tight enough to obstruct arterial flow. Anything less than the systolic blood pressure is ok (i.e. will not obstruct arterial blood flow), but typically much less pressure is needed as veins are a low pressure system.

Any medical emergency involving an injury. These emergencies tend to happen quickly and are generally caused by outside forces acting upon the body.

It is never a good idea to trust the usefulness of an out of date medicine but for the most part medicines are still majorly effective after the expectation date for several years

until the bleeding stops

It will raise your heart rate and blood pressure very quickly and make you feel very shaky. It will not give you any kind of pleasant "high" sensation.

It simply means placing a breathing tube into someone's airway so that they can breathe with assistance. It is an advanced airway done by licensed medical care givers and goes into the trachea.

Most tubes used for intubation of adults are cuffed, meaning they have an inflatable cuff at the end of the tube. In small children and infants, we typically use uncuffed tubes because the airways are small enough to prevent much air leak without a cuff.

There are different methods by which one can intubate. The most common is direct laryngoscopy, by which a lighted laryngoscope is used to directly visualize the glottic opening and pass the tube through the vocal cords. Indirect laryngoscopy is another method of intubation, typically with the assistance of a fiber-optic video device. A common one is called the Glidescope. Using a Glidescope is a fiber-optic camera device that gives you a view on a small screen instead of looking directly at the glottic opening.

A subdural hematoma (hemorrhage) is usually the result of a serious head injury. When it occurs this way it's called an "acute" subdural hematoma. Acute subdural hematomas are among the deadliest of all head injuries. The blood fills the brain area very rapidly and compresses the brain tissue. This often results in brain tissue injury or infarction and many times even death. In the elderly, subdural hematomas can also be a result of a slight knock to the head or falls.

It is known that a human can survive a third degree burn, but they will have complications that come with it. In rare cases, a person can survive a fourth degree burn but that may require some amputation.

It doesn't have a past tense as it's a noun.

The first process of treatment for a myocardial infarction (heart attack) is to diagnose its exact cause and location. It must be determined whether it is a blockage or death of the heart tissue before the appropriate treatment can be prescribed.

This often involves the use of medical scans and imagery. It only takes a few minutes to pinpoint the exact location of the problem and for the surgeon or doctor to begin medical/surgical intervention.

From a first aid point of view, the first medical intervention is to monitor the patient closely, start cardiopulmonary resuscitation if necessary and call for an ambulance immediately.

Not really. Some people just have veins that roll no matter what. Your phlebotomy skills will improve with practice.

An Epi-pen is a single use instrument. After use, it should be discarded in an appropriate container. If you continue to have the symptoms that made you use the Epi-pen in the first place, you may give yourself another dose of the Epi-pen, provided you have another one in your possession. Once you use your Epi-pen, you should call for EMS and be transported to the hospital for evaluation of your condition and observation to ensure you do not have recurrence of your allergic reaction.

It all depends on the situation i am currently in the US Navy and they teach up that the limb can be saved even up to six hours after the tourniquet has been applied as long as it is put on properly but should only be used for very sever bleeding after it has been applied it must be rechecked very often to ensure the wound has not started bleeding again and also should only be removed by a professional if you have any more questions feel free to ask

You can refrigerate it without problems unless there is a label on it that says not

to although there shouldn't be.