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

What is the body’s best defense against cold?

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

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.)

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?

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

What is production of heat by the body?

Which is an intrapartum risk factor that may affect the need for neonatal resuscitation?

When using a bulb syringe to suction an infant just delivered, which locality should the paramedic suction first?