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NREMT: Signs/Symptoms/Causes/Treatment
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Emphysema
✓ -:- Shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing, possible weight loss
Stroke
✓ -:- 1-sided weakness, partial/complete loss of the ability to use words,
headache/confusion, dizziness, impaired vision, ^BP, unequal pupils and
seizures
Myocardial Infarction
✓ -:- Angina, Shortness of breath, dizzniess, feeling faint, nausea
Hyperglycemia
✓ -:- Chronic Thirst/Hunger, dehydration, ^urination, nausea
Tuberculosis
✓ -:- fever, night sweats, loss of energy/appetite, weight loss
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Pulmonary Edema
✓ -:- dyspnea, pale/sweaty, hypertension,tachycardia, crackles/wheezing,
low SPO2
Pneumonia
✓ -:- fever/chills, green mucos, shortness of breath, (sharp/plueritic) chest
pain, headache, crackling
Treatment of Pulmonary edema
✓ -:- High o2 and CPAP
Treatment of Pneumonia
✓ -:- o2 and transport
Spontaneous Pneumothorax
✓ -:- tachycardia, low SPO2,cyanosis, wheezing, pain/swelling in 1 or both
legs, >lung sounds in injured lung,shortness of breath
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Treatment of Spontaneous Pneumothorax
✓ -:- May requires chest tube, o2, *CPAP is contraindicated*
Pulmonary Embolism
✓ -:- chest pain, wheezing, pain/swelling in one or both legs, shortness of
breath, cough/anxiety
Epiglotitis
✓ -:- Sore throat/difficulty swallowing, stridor, tripod position, muffled
voice
Treatment of Epiglotitis
✓ -:- Keep patient comfortable/calm, high o2, transport, do not inspe ct
throat
Cystic Fibrosis
✓ -:- fatigue, frequent pneumonia, coughing up blood/copious mucous,
chills, abdominal pain/distention
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