Enviromental Emergencies
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| Change from liquid to gas; as persipiration on the skin and vaporizes, the body experiences as a cooling effect | Evaporation | ||||
| Abbreviation that stands for arterial gas embolism | AGE | ||||
| Application of an external heat source to rewarm the body of a hypothermic patient | Active rewarming | ||||
| Carrying away of heat by currents of air or water or other gases or liquids | Convection | ||||
| Death caused by changes in the lungs resulting from immersion in water | Drowning | ||||
| Direct transfer of heat from one heat source to another through direct contact | Conduction | ||||
| Condition resulting from nitrogen trapped in the body's tissues caused by coming up too quickly from a deep, prolonged dive | Decompression sickness | ||||
| Application of heat to the lateral chest, neck, armpits, and groin of a hypothermic patient | Central re-warming | ||||
| Increase in body temperature above normal; life-threatening in its extreme | Hyperthermia | ||||
| Gas bubble in the bloodstream; more accurately called an arterial gas embolism | Air embolism | ||||
| Condition of having begun to drown; the patient may be consious, unconsious with heartbeat,and pulse, or with no heartbeat, or pulse but still able to be resuciated | Near-drowning | ||||
| Covering a hypothermic patient and taking other steps to prevent further heat loss and help the body rewarm its self | Passive rewarming | ||||
| Sending out energy, such as heat, in waves into space | Radiation | ||||
| Breathing; during this process, the body loses heat as warm air is exhalted from the body | Respirtaion | ||||
| cooling or freezing of particular parts of the body | Local Cooling | ||||
| generalized cooling that reduces body temperature below normal; life-threatening in its extreme | Hypothermia | ||||
| Substances produced by animals or plants that are poisonous to humans | Toxins | ||||
| Chilling coused by conduction of heat from the body when the body or clothing is wet | Water Chill | ||||
| Toxin produced by certain animals such as snakes, spiders, and some marine life-forms | Venom | ||||
| Chilling caused by convection of heat from the body in the prescence of air currnets | Wind Chill |
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Created by:
Kellene
on 2007-12-07