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| Ambu bag, fluids, extension sets/t-ports, 3-way topcock, red rubber catheters, bandage material, ECG and defibrillator, blood pressure machines, ET tubes, syringe scope to put ET tubes |
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| What ER drugs is in a crash cart? |
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| Atropine, Mannitol/Furosemide, Dobutemine, Dopamine, Epinephrine, Lidocaine, Magnesium, Nalaxone |
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| Bradycardia, AV block and Asystole |
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| Mannitol/Furosemide reverses what? |
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| Dobutemine reverses what? |
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| Epinephrine reverses what? |
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| V-fibrillation, asystole, EMD (adrenaline) |
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| Chloride-V-fibrillation, V-tachycardia |
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| Fluid removal from chest tubes, abdominal tubes, ET tubes and fluid from any body cavity |
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| When patient is in pain they will do what? |
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| Vocalizing, depression, pale MM, hypo/hypertension, aggression, salvation, dilated, pupils, and "bowing" |
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| What happens when a patient is in shock? |
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| Poor blood flow and impaired O2 delivery |
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| Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome |
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| What are the signs and symptoms of shock? |
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| Hypotension, hypercardia, brick red MM, rapid CRT |
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| What is a sign of heat stroke? |
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| What does IMHA stand for and mean? |
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| Immune-medicated hemolytic anemia. The destruction of your own RBC. |
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| What does allergic reaction mean? |
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| Immune system responding to foreign material. |
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| What causes an allergic reaction? |
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| Food, insect bites and vaccines |
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| What are the signs of an allergic reaction? |
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| Hives, swollen face, vomiting, diarrhea, shock and rarely death |
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| Abnormal brain activity due to intracranial causes |
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| Simple partial seizures means what? |
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| No loss of consciousness; facial and body twitching |
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| Complex partial seizures means what? |
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| Altered consciousness; chewing, licking, defensive and/or aggression |
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| Generalized seizures means what? |
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| Loss of consciousness, entire muscle tremors, urination, defecation, and salvation |
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| Status epilepticus means what? |
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| Continuous seizures; will not stop; will die from muscle twitching/exhaustion |
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| What immediately happens to the P. if hit by a car? |
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| Broken bone, lacerations, skin abrasion, internal trauma (body/head) |
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| What are the clinical signs of head trauma when HBC? |
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| Posture, consciousness, pupil size, and response to light |
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| What are the 4 B's in 1st aid? Most to least important |
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| Bleeding, Breathing, Beating, Bone |
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| B. Bronchiseptic (kennel cough), cardiomegaly, L-sided cardiomyopathy, heart tumors, heartworms, collapsing trachea, foreign body, valley fever and neoplasia |
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| What are the clinical signs of heat stroke? |
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| T > 104.9, panting, weakness, fatigue, muscle tremors, ataxia, collapse, vomiting/diarrhea, tachycardia, hyper-dynamic pulses, seizures, DIC, grey MM |
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| Cardiopulmonary cerebrovascular resuscitation |
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| How should animals be resuscitated? |
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| < 15# should in R LAT and squeezed at the sternum; with every 10-15 compressions give 2 breaths |
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| Protocols for k-9 blood typing are what? |
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| 8 standard types, 3 universal types (4+, 1.1/1.2-) |
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| Protocols for feline blood typing are what? |
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| A, B & AB; no universal type; A is most common |
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| 1# of body weight is equivalent to how many mLs of fluid? |
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| 480ml of fluid = 1# of body weight |
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| T/F: Is it easy to evaluate skin turgor on older patients just by pulling up on their skin just because they have good elasticity? |
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| T/F: If you have 2.5% dextrose concentration it should never be given SQ? |
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| Why should 2.5% dextrose never be given as SQ? |
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| What are the different types of open wounds? |
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| Incision, Laceration, Punctures, Abrasion, Abrasion, Abscess, Avulsion, and Degloving |
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| What is a sign of volume overload and we get hemosis? |
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| An animal comes in with brick red MM and was HBC. What is that indicative of? |
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| Where do you measure central venous pressure? |
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| when making heparinized saline, what is the mixture? |
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| 5 units of heparin to 1ml of saline |
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| What fluids can be supplemented with potassium? |
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| drawing blood from this donor animal into a heparin or sodium citrate and lacks RBC preservative? |
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| wont clot, but since it has no preservatives to save the RBCs and increases the pH |
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| An alternative to administering packed RBCs is? |
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| Caution is necessary when giving bovine hemoglobin to a cat because could result in what? |
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| Your giving a transfusion and obviously the animal is having a fever. What should you do? |
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| when collecting blood from a donor why should glass bottles be avoided? |
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| What is the drug of choice for a cardiac situation? |
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| You have an animal that comes in that requires supplemental oxygen, but every time you put the face mask near them they panic. What should you do? |
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| put the face mask near their nose as close as possible. without putting the mask on. |
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| have a dog that has been hbc, rear leg is mangled blood is squirting. what should you do? |
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| go right to the tourniquet. |
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| We use mannitol for what? |
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| What type of patients is mannitol contradicted in? |
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| What would you do to treat a DIC patient? |
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| fluid therapy & oxygen supplementation |
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