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Intro to Wilderness Medicine final withverified answers
True or false: If attacked by a brown bear, generally you should play dead - correct answer ✔✔True
True or false: The mosquito spreads more disease then any other animal or insect on earth - correct
answer ✔✔True
Dysentery is bloody diarrhea and a fever - which of the following is not considered a type of dysentery: -
correct answer ✔✔Cholera
Tick removal: - correct answer ✔✔Requires pulling the tick out directly by grabbing at the point of
attachment
You are camping and eating sandwiches with ham and mayonnaise. Very soon after eating a person
begins to vomit. He likely has: - correct answer ✔✔Staph food poisoning
Checking for distal function means: - correct answer ✔✔- Checking to see if there is neurological
function away from an injury
- Looking for blood flow on the far end of an injury
- Evaluating for movement away from the injury (All of these answers)
In the primary survey it is important to first stabilize the neck when evaluating: - correct answer ✔✔The
airway
A person can bleed to death inside the body in all of the places except: - correct answer ✔✔Skull
True or false: Permethrin is a powerful insecticide that should be applied directly to the skin to prevent
bites - correct answer ✔✔False
, The most important factors to consider when assessing a bite wound for the transmission of rabies are: -
correct answer ✔✔a. likelihood of animal having rabies
b. behavior of the animal- normal vs. abnormal
c. how mad the animal was when biting the victim
d. a and b only (right answer)
True or false: Scabs are generally considered a good thing in wound management and should be allowed
to form - correct answer ✔✔False
Wounds: - correct answer ✔✔Should be irrigated extensively with water before closing. If you cannot
find clean water, then river water or even bottled fruit juices could be used.
True or false: Scorpion stings are almost always deadly - correct answer ✔✔False
The first method for stopping bleeding in the wilderness is: - correct answer ✔✔- Direct pressure
- Tourniquets can be used if first done cautiously
- Both of these answers (correct answer)
Level of consciousness (LOC): - correct answer ✔✔- Assesses a person's ability to think and communicate
- Is valuable as it helps understand the trends of a patient's health
- Both are correct (correct answer)
Black widow spider bites are painful but rarely fatal. - correct answer ✔✔True
Death form lightning is most often caused by cardiac and respiratory arrest - correct answer ✔✔True
The treatment of lightning strikes includes treating the "dead" looking patients first - correct answer
✔✔True
Burns are classified by: - correct answer ✔✔- The depth of the wound
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