A Little Trivia

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Let's test your knowledge of EMS trivia. Use of Google will result in your

hard drive being infected with the V.32badass virus. Do not respond to the

list. Answers will be posted in a few days. Don't email me as I do not care.

You can post your scores if verified my Sister Theresa, Val DeFrance, or

that biker chick.

1. What is the plural of pleura?

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.

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

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?

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

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

norepinephrine extravasates?

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

8. What was the first dedicated civilian medical helicopter program in

the United States?

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

Care in the Street?

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

Emergency!?

11. What is the purpose of adding lactate to lactated Ringer’s solution?

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

What are they trying to tell you?

13. Which company published the now defunct Emergency magazine?

14. What are the three Greek humors?

15. What is a reticulocyte?

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

and Speed and what did it stand for?

17. DRT is an abbreviation for?

18. What was the drug Hyperstat used for?

19. What was HelaFoam used for?

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

mean?

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

22. What is a MICN?

23. What ambulance was known as “Mobey Pig”?

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

25. Who is “Joe and the Deer? "

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