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Trauma Team Vocab
Words from the Trauma Center/Trauma Team video games
Question | Answer |
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A lack of oxygen or excess of carbon dioxide, which leads to internal bleeding and unconsciousness | Asphyxiation |
A portable device used to regulate heart rhythm in patients who are undergoing cardiac arrest | AED/ Automated External Defibrillator |
An abnormal blood-filled dilatation of a blood vessel, due to disease of the outer wall | Aneurysm |
Bracchium | Arm |
Loss of normal circulation of the blood, due to failure of the heart to contract effectively | Cardiac Arrest |
Cardia | Heart |
Cheir | Hand |
A tubular surgical instrument used to visualize the inside of hollow organs | Endoscope |
The outer layer of an internal organ of the animal body | Epidermis |
The device that shows patients heartbeat/ heart rhythm | EKG/Electrocardiograph |
When the heart (specifically the arteries) convulses and twitches irregularly, resulting in a lack of sync between heartbeat and pulse | Fibrillation |
When the vitals of a person reach 0 they are _________ | Flatlining |
The study of both medicine and law as one | Forensic Medicine |
Another word for bleed/blood/bleeding/etc. | Hemorrhage/Hemorrhaging |
The procedure to stop external bleeding | Hemostasis |
A drug used to prevent antiviral disease outbreak | Immunoglobulin |
Swelling | Inflammation |
Yellowish eyes also known as ______ | Jaundice |
Another word for cut/wound/etc. | Laceration |
A layer of tissue or organ | Membrane |
Onyx | Claw |
Ops | Eye |
An implanted device used to maintain a steady heartbeat | Pacemaker |
Causative agent (Like a bacteria or virus) of a disease | Pathogen |
To remove by excision with a scalpel | Excise |
The procedure most-often used to excise a tumor | The Powell-Procedure |
When you massage the heart of a patient undergoing cardiac arrest you are trying to _______________ them | Resuscitate/Resuscitation |
A substance used medically because of it's chemical activity | A Reagent |
An opening made with a scalpel | Incision |
The tool used to close an incision | Sutures |
A drug used to stabilize vitals | Stabilizer |
Another word for spit/saliva | Sputum |
Something that is produced by biochemical synthesis | Synthetic Ex. Synthetic Membrane |
Rapid heart rate | Tachycardia |
A break in internal skin with loss of tissue | Ulcer |
An agent that initiates vasoconstriction | Vasoconstrictor |
Bent out of shape, as in a bone | Warped |