Across
- 1. A descending scale that assigns the patient a status ranging from "alert" to "unresponsive."
- 4. someone who is able to recognize, treat, and, whenever possible, prevent problems created by and within a wilderness environment.
- 6. Prevents your skin and mucous membranes from contacting the blood or other body fluids of a patient.
- 8. Gathering patient information
- 12. When the patient has specific symptom/illness, sensations felt by the patient and not signs you an measure.
- 13. Checking rate, rhythm, and quality of respirations tell you how well a patient is moving life-sustaining air in and out.
Down
- 2. To see when they constrict when exposed to light, and dilate when the light is reduced.
- 3. An assessment to find and treat any immediate threats to the patient's life.
- 5. A record of all the information gathered during the assessment, and what was done for treatment, and what will be done for the PT
- 7. Degrees of alertness
- 8. May give pertinent information on the general well-being of the patient by giving evidence of changes in vital body processes.
- 9. Helps in your initial assessment and make you aware of and able to anticipate possible changes in your patient later
- 10. To measure of a brain's ability to relate to the outside world.
- 11. Determine if the heart was beating with general adequacy, checking rate, rhythm, and quality of that pulse