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- 2. A common vector for viruses such as japanese encephalitis and malaria
- 3. what animal can cause localised blue/grey skin discolouration?
- 6. Mammal bite wounds should be cleaned with _____ and water or sodium chloride 0.9%.
- 8. An acute life threatening reaction characterised by a rapidly deteriorating airway/breathing/circulatory problems.
- 11. If a patient has a history of anaphylaxis to these, you must leave it in situ and transport to the ED
- 13. Wound type and measurements should be _________- even for minor injuries.
- 14. Paramedics should ask about the immunisation of this disease when attending a patient who has been biten by an animal.
- 16. When bitten by this, patients can present with headache, N&V, abdo pain, blurry/double vision, droopy eyelids, difficulty speaking/swallowing/breathing, limb weakness, paralysis, collapse and/or resp/cardiac arrest.
- 17. What should be applied to the site of a red-back spider or scorpion bite?
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- 1. Self- inflicted bites can sometimes be associated with metabolic disease or ________ illness.
- 3. Which type of spider bite requires the application of a pressure immobilisation bandage?
- 4. Scorpion stings cause pain at the site, mild localised numbness and __________
- 5. When bitten by a snake, what should you NOT allow the patient to do?
- 7. swollen lymph nodes, purulent wounds and fever could be signs of wound __________.
- 9. When stung by a non-tropical jellyfish what temperature water should be applied to the site?
- 10. When allergic to an insect bite, patients can present with vomiting and pain in which area?
- 12. Which type of jellyfish can cause severe pain, N&V, dyspnoea, diaphoresis, heart failure, pulmonary oedema and hypertensive stroke after a minor sting?
- 14. How many minutes can life threatening effects of a funnel web spider bite occur in?
- 15. Should you let patients rub their blue-bottle stings?