What is the most severe form of high-altitude illness that presents with signs and symptoms of increased intracranial pressures?

Which factors most influence survival after drowning? Select all that apply

What do all the letter is in the acronym APGAR stand for?  

Which illness results from rapid ascent in a high altitude by unacclimatized persons, characterized by headache, vomiting, and dizziness?

Medical direction may prescribe which pharmacological agent for sedation and seizure control in a heat stroke patient?

What is the most efficient in-hospital technique to warm a hypothermic body?

What is the body’s best defense against cold?

Use the following information to answer the next five questions:Paramedics are called to a snow-covered cabin. The ambient temperature has been 10° F for more than 1 week. A hiker tells EMS that he believes a man has been in the cabin for 2 days without heat, food, or water. When the paramedics examine the patient, he is bradycardic and Osborn waves are visible on the ECG. He is not shivering and has a depressed level of consciousness. Keeping the patient quiet is important because this situation may result in which condition? (Refer to the previously described scenario.)

As paramedics are delivering an infant, the cord is loosely wrapped around the infant’s neck. How should the paramedic proceed?

What is the most efficient in-hospital technique to warm a hypothermic body?