RE: Another trivia question

[Guest guest]

Okay - I'm offering a little trivia for the good doctor - (since you came

up with such good ones for the group) - and since I recently heard the origin of

the word capnos , as in capnography. It's Greek naturally. Those that have heard

Baruch Krauss speak may remember this. What does capnos actually mean?

Don Elbert, Tyler

www.delbert@...

>>> bbledsoe@... 12/15/2004 6:34:39 PM >>>

Close...The word nausea comes from the Greek word naus (ship). See, there is

something to be learned in things other than EMS education or a SLAM course.

E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP

Midlothian, TX

http://www.bryanbledsoe.com

Re: Trivia Answers-bonus

seasickness. taken from dictionary.com, yea i cheated

nau·se·a ( P ) Pronunciation Key (nôz-, -zh, -s-, -sh)

n.

1.. A feeling of sickness in the stomach characterized by an urge to

vomit. See Usage Note at nauseous.

2.. Strong aversion; disgust.

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[Middle English, from Latin, from Greek nauti, nausi, seasickness, from

nauts, sailor, from naus, ship. See nu- in Indo-European Roots.]

Trivia Answers

1. What is the plural of pleura? [pleurae]

2. Your patient has a blood glucose level of 4.2 mmol/L. Is this

high,

low, or normal? Convert the reading to milligrams per deciliter. [Normal]

[77 mg/dl] [4.2 mmol/L X 18.02 mg/dL = 77 mg/dl]

3. What is Hennebert's sign and what condition is it indicative of?

[Pressure on the TM causes a nystagmus on the same side-suggestive of

labyrinthitis]

4. How is Arnold's nerve stimulated? What effects results from

stimulation of Arnold's nerve? What nerve is Arnold's nerve a part of? [by

stimulating the ear canal (as with a q-tip)] [Causes coughing] [CN X

(Vagus)]

5. The ligamentum teres is a remnant of what embryonic structure?

[Left

umbilical vein]

6. What is the appropriate treatment when an IV infusion of

norepinephrine extravasates? [Phentolamine (Regitine)]

7. Who invented the esophageal obturator airway (EOA)? [Don ]

8. What was the first dedicated civilian medical helicopter program

in

the United States? [st 's-Denver]

9. Who was the publisher of the first version of Caroline's Emergency

Care in the Street? [The DOT]

10. What company provided the ambulances used in the television show

Emergency!? [Modular Ambulance in Grand Prairie, TX]

11. What is the purpose of adding lactate to lactated Ringer's

solution?

[it is converted to bicarbonate in the body and acts as a hydrogen ion

buffer]

12. Your Spanish-speaking patient is telling you, " Estoy embarazada. "

What are they trying to tell you? {She is pregnant]

13. Which company published the now defunct Emergency magazine?

[Dyna-Med]

14. What are the three Greek humors? [bile, Phlegm, Blood]

15. What is a reticulocyte? [An immature erythrocyte]

16. What was the name of the ambulance company in the movie Mother,

Jugs

and Speed and what did it stand for? [Fishbine] [Fish + Bine]

17. DRT is an abbreviation for? [Dead right there]

18. What was the drug Hyperstat used for? [Hypertensive crisis]

19. What was HelaFoam used for? [burns-Betadine foam]

20. When your partner said, " We are going to hang three " , what did he

mean? [He is going to place three patients on hanging stretchers]

21. How many grams of glucose are in a liter of D5W? [50 grams per

liter]

22. What is a MICN? [Mobile Intensive Care Nurse-nurse in California

who

can give medical control direction to paramedics]

23. What ambulance was known as " Mobey Pig " ? [seattle's Medic 1]

24. What slang for MICU is used by many fire department EMS

operations?

[Monkeys in caged units]

25. Who is " Joe and the Deer? [Famous dispatch tape from New York

state

where gentlemen hits deer with his Cadillac, puts it in car and deer comes

back to life and bites him]

Score:

Ø 95% - Acute psychiatric hospitalization needed

Ø 90-94% - Get a life

Ø 85-89% - Get a hobby

Ø 80-84% - Get a book

Ø 75-80% - Average

Ø < 74% - Rookie or burnt out

Bonus Question: What the the etymology of the word " nausea " ?

[Guest guest]

As I recall, kapnos is Greek for smoke. Latin would be capnomantia(o).

Greek preceded Latin so I would suspect that the etymology is to

smoke--which makes sense.

E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP

Midlothian, TX

" I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. "

Don't miss EMStock 2005 (http://www.EMStock.com)

Re: Trivia Answers-bonus

seasickness. taken from dictionary.com, yea i cheated

nau·se·a ( P ) Pronunciation Key (nôz-, -zh, -s-, -sh)

n.

1.. A feeling of sickness in the stomach characterized by an urge to

vomit. See Usage Note at nauseous.

2.. Strong aversion; disgust.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

----

[Middle English, from Latin, from Greek nauti, nausi, seasickness, from

nauts, sailor, from naus, ship. See nu- in Indo-European Roots.]

Trivia Answers

1. What is the plural of pleura? [pleurae]

2. Your patient has a blood glucose level of 4.2 mmol/L. Is this

high,

low, or normal? Convert the reading to milligrams per deciliter. [Normal]

[77 mg/dl] [4.2 mmol/L X 18.02 mg/dL = 77 mg/dl]

3. What is Hennebert's sign and what condition is it indicative of?

[Pressure on the TM causes a nystagmus on the same side-suggestive of

labyrinthitis]

4. How is Arnold's nerve stimulated? What effects results from

stimulation of Arnold's nerve? What nerve is Arnold's nerve a part of? [by

stimulating the ear canal (as with a q-tip)] [Causes coughing] [CN X

(Vagus)]

5. The ligamentum teres is a remnant of what embryonic structure?

[Left

umbilical vein]

6. What is the appropriate treatment when an IV infusion of

norepinephrine extravasates? [Phentolamine (Regitine)]

7. Who invented the esophageal obturator airway (EOA)? [Don ]

8. What was the first dedicated civilian medical helicopter program

in

the United States? [st 's-Denver]

9. Who was the publisher of the first version of Caroline's Emergency

Care in the Street? [The DOT]

10. What company provided the ambulances used in the television show

Emergency!? [Modular Ambulance in Grand Prairie, TX]

11. What is the purpose of adding lactate to lactated Ringer's

solution?

[it is converted to bicarbonate in the body and acts as a hydrogen ion

buffer]

12. Your Spanish-speaking patient is telling you, " Estoy embarazada. "

What are they trying to tell you? {She is pregnant]

13. Which company published the now defunct Emergency magazine?

[Dyna-Med]

14. What are the three Greek humors? [bile, Phlegm, Blood]

15. What is a reticulocyte? [An immature erythrocyte]

16. What was the name of the ambulance company in the movie Mother,

Jugs

and Speed and what did it stand for? [Fishbine] [Fish + Bine]

17. DRT is an abbreviation for? [Dead right there]

18. What was the drug Hyperstat used for? [Hypertensive crisis]

19. What was HelaFoam used for? [burns-Betadine foam]

20. When your partner said, " We are going to hang three " , what did he

mean? [He is going to place three patients on hanging stretchers]

21. How many grams of glucose are in a liter of D5W? [50 grams per

liter]

22. What is a MICN? [Mobile Intensive Care Nurse-nurse in California

who

can give medical control direction to paramedics]

23. What ambulance was known as " Mobey Pig " ? [seattle's Medic 1]

24. What slang for MICU is used by many fire department EMS

operations?

[Monkeys in caged units]

25. Who is " Joe and the Deer? [Famous dispatch tape from New York

state

where gentlemen hits deer with his Cadillac, puts it in car and deer comes

back to life and bites him]

Score:

Ø 95% - Acute psychiatric hospitalization needed

Ø 90-94% - Get a life

Ø 85-89% - Get a hobby

Ø 80-84% - Get a book

Ø 75-80% - Average

Ø < 74% - Rookie or burnt out

Bonus Question: What the the etymology of the word " nausea " ?

[Guest guest]

As I recall, kapnos is Greek for smoke. Latin would be capnomantia(o).

Greek preceded Latin so I would suspect that the etymology is to

smoke--which makes sense.

E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP

Midlothian, TX

" I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. "

Don't miss EMStock 2005 (http://www.EMStock.com)

Re: Trivia Answers-bonus

seasickness. taken from dictionary.com, yea i cheated

nau·se·a ( P ) Pronunciation Key (nôz-, -zh, -s-, -sh)

n.

1.. A feeling of sickness in the stomach characterized by an urge to

vomit. See Usage Note at nauseous.

2.. Strong aversion; disgust.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

----

[Middle English, from Latin, from Greek nauti, nausi, seasickness, from

nauts, sailor, from naus, ship. See nu- in Indo-European Roots.]

Trivia Answers

1. What is the plural of pleura? [pleurae]

2. Your patient has a blood glucose level of 4.2 mmol/L. Is this

high,

low, or normal? Convert the reading to milligrams per deciliter. [Normal]

[77 mg/dl] [4.2 mmol/L X 18.02 mg/dL = 77 mg/dl]

3. What is Hennebert's sign and what condition is it indicative of?

[Pressure on the TM causes a nystagmus on the same side-suggestive of

labyrinthitis]

4. How is Arnold's nerve stimulated? What effects results from

stimulation of Arnold's nerve? What nerve is Arnold's nerve a part of? [by

stimulating the ear canal (as with a q-tip)] [Causes coughing] [CN X

(Vagus)]

5. The ligamentum teres is a remnant of what embryonic structure?

[Left

umbilical vein]

6. What is the appropriate treatment when an IV infusion of

norepinephrine extravasates? [Phentolamine (Regitine)]

7. Who invented the esophageal obturator airway (EOA)? [Don ]

8. What was the first dedicated civilian medical helicopter program

in

the United States? [st 's-Denver]

9. Who was the publisher of the first version of Caroline's Emergency

Care in the Street? [The DOT]

10. What company provided the ambulances used in the television show

Emergency!? [Modular Ambulance in Grand Prairie, TX]

11. What is the purpose of adding lactate to lactated Ringer's

solution?

[it is converted to bicarbonate in the body and acts as a hydrogen ion

buffer]

12. Your Spanish-speaking patient is telling you, " Estoy embarazada. "

What are they trying to tell you? {She is pregnant]

13. Which company published the now defunct Emergency magazine?

[Dyna-Med]

14. What are the three Greek humors? [bile, Phlegm, Blood]

15. What is a reticulocyte? [An immature erythrocyte]

16. What was the name of the ambulance company in the movie Mother,

Jugs

and Speed and what did it stand for? [Fishbine] [Fish + Bine]

17. DRT is an abbreviation for? [Dead right there]

18. What was the drug Hyperstat used for? [Hypertensive crisis]

19. What was HelaFoam used for? [burns-Betadine foam]

20. When your partner said, " We are going to hang three " , what did he

mean? [He is going to place three patients on hanging stretchers]

21. How many grams of glucose are in a liter of D5W? [50 grams per

liter]

22. What is a MICN? [Mobile Intensive Care Nurse-nurse in California

who

can give medical control direction to paramedics]

23. What ambulance was known as " Mobey Pig " ? [seattle's Medic 1]

24. What slang for MICU is used by many fire department EMS

operations?

[Monkeys in caged units]

25. Who is " Joe and the Deer? [Famous dispatch tape from New York

state

where gentlemen hits deer with his Cadillac, puts it in car and deer comes

back to life and bites him]

Score:

Ø 95% - Acute psychiatric hospitalization needed

Ø 90-94% - Get a life

Ø 85-89% - Get a hobby

Ø 80-84% - Get a book

Ø 75-80% - Average

Ø < 74% - Rookie or burnt out

Bonus Question: What the the etymology of the word " nausea " ?

[Guest guest]

>>> " I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. " <<<

The sinners are much more fun.

Kenny