Flight Paramedic Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update and Recommended Version
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Flight Paramedic
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Flight Paramedic
Boyle's Law (Balloon=Barotrauma
The pressure a gas is inversely proportional to the volume of a gas at a constant
temperature.
IV drip rates increase, affects ETT cuffs
Dalton's Law
"Dalton's Gang"
Law of partial Pressures.
Responsible for soft tissue swelling at altitude
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Graham's Law
Grey Matter
✓ Law of Gaseous Diffusion
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✓ Gas exchange at cellular level
Henry's Law
Heineken
✓ Solubility of a gas in a liquid
✓ the BENDS
Bends Ground transport is preferred
✓ Type 1 Nitrogen related, painful joints mottled skin, pruritus; "ants are crawling on their
Skin"
✓ Cutis Marmorata- Mottled Skin, can look like a sunburn
✓ Type 2 Neurologic s/s hypovolemic Shock
Arterial Gas Embolism
✓ Boyle's Law
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✓ breathe holding during ascent on a dive. causes pnuemo. air can be forced into blood
stream creating air bubble blocks.
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✓ Hyperbaric Chamber! fly in aircraft under 10k Mean Sea Level
✓ sea level to 10,000 feet
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✓ Night Vision is decreases at 5000ft MSL
Physiologic Deficient Zone
TUC=Time of useful Consciousness
✓ 10K to 50K ft MSL
✓ O2 pressurization is required
✓ Sign of compression loss is cooler temperature and window fogging.
✓ Normally 90 Sec TUC at 30000ft
✓ If a rapid decompression occurs TUC is @45 Sec
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✓ -Reduction in oxygen carrying capacity of the blood.
✓ -Anemia, blood loss
histotoxic hypoxia
✓ Limits available 02 due to poisoning of the cytochrome oxidase system
✓ Cyanide, Alcohol, Carbon Monoxide, Nitroglycerin, Sodium Nitroprusside
Hypoxic
✓ Decrease partial pressure of oxygen at altitude
✓ Deficiency in Alveolar 02 exchange
✓ Cardiovascular/Pnuemo pts are more susceptible
Stagnant Hypoxia
✓ Reduction in blood flow; e.g. positive G maneuvers
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✓ Cardiogenic Shock
Stages of Hypoxia (ICDC)
✓ Indifferent: Full reasoning, some loss of night vision
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✓ Compensatory: Increased HR Ventilations, Slowed Judgement
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✓ Disturbance: Slurred Speech, impaired judgement, "drunk"
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✓ Critical: No longer able to physiologically function, death immenent
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