Summer Emergencies

3. When someone gets stung by a bee, what as an EMT are you concerned about? (2 words)
7. Sending out energy such as heat in waves into space
8. A gas bubble in the bloodstream (2 words)
9. The number of seconds an EMT holds an auto injector in place to ensure the medication is injected
11. A symptom of decompression sickness (2 words)
13. The action of breathing
17. When you feel like you have a knot or tightness in your muscles
18. An increase in body temperature above normal, life threatening in it's extreme
20. When cooling children with a heat related emergency, what temperature should the water be?
21. The process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in liquid
22. Trained person who watches over swimmers
23. A heat emergency patient will have ----- pupils
24. The color of the EpiPen Jr label

1. When you don't drink enough water you become...
2. The term to describe the change from liquid to gas
4. Term to describe the transfer of heat from one material to another through direct contact
5. Substance produced by animals or plants that are poisonous to humans
6. Red, itchy, possibly raised blotches on the skin that often result from allergic reactions
10. A medication that constricts blood vessels and dilates respiratory passages
12. The number of contraindications an EMT considers when using an epi-pen in a life threatening condition
14. Something that causes an allergic reaction
15. With a heat emergency patient, after removing patient's clothing apply cool packs to ----, groin and armpits
16. Chilling caused by convection of heat from the body in the presence of air currents (2 words)
19. The term to describe when the body can no longer control it's temperature and body temperature is rising rapidly (2 words)