Emergency Care Vocab Health Occ. Laceration: A jagged, irregular tear of the skin.
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Emergency Care Vocab
Health Occ
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Laceration: A jagged, irregular tear of the skin.
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Skin avulsion: tissue separates from the body.
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Incision: A cut from a knife, glass, or sharp rock.
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Puncture:
• A wound that is caused by a object piercing the skin.
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Abrasion: wound to outer layers of skin that causes little bleeding.
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Poison:
• Substance, solid liquid or gas, that causes illness, injury, or death when introduced to the body.
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First Aid:
• The immediate temporary care to a person that has become sick or has been injured.
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Shock:
• Failure of the system to keep adequate blood circulating to the vital organs of the body.
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Rabies: A disease of the nervous system that could cause madness and
death.
• Dogs, squirrels, and rats are common carriers of this disease.
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Sprain
• Stretching or tearing of ligaments that hold bone together.
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Burns
• First degree: Involves the top layer of skin (sunburn).
• Second degree: Involves the top layer, the skin will blister and appear blotchy.
• Third degree: destroys all layers of skin, nerves, muscle, fat and bones. Burn looks brown or black.
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Fainting
• A temporary loss of consciousness, caused by reduced blood supply to the brain.
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Frostbite
• Ice crystals form in the spaces between the cells– This causes skin to
lose color and to become insensitive.
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Gangrene
• Death of tissue, that comes from frostbite that is untreated.
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Hurricane
• A powerful rain storm
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Tornado
• A powerful twisting wind storm.
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Blizzard
• Snow storm