Exam 11: Principles of Pathophysiology

____ are the by-products of drugs and chemicals after the cell has reacted with them.

The "Black Death" is one example of a known cause of cellular death.

____ disease is a previously known cause of disease that was introduced to the patient as a result of medical intervention.

Barotrauma is restricted to diving incidents.

____________________ is physical damage to tissues, an injury caused by an imbalance between pressures in the environment and those within the body.

Decompensated shock is the first-stage of a series of cumulative physiologic derangements typically involving one organ system that goes on to affect the entire body.

Putrefaction starts between 36 and 48 hours after clinical death.

____ is a process of decomposition within the body characterized by greenish discoloration, secondary to hemolysis of blood, and slippage of the skin from the skeleton, due to breakdown of subcutaneous fat.

Typically, the cause of an emergent disease is unknown until scientists have a sufficient number of cases to study so as to identify the source.

The ____ of a disease is the number of new cases per standardized group per time.

Of the three general chemical causes of cellular injury, ____________________ is ranked number one and receives the largest portion of a Paramedic's attention.

Biological death is associated with irreversibility, meaning that any resuscitative efforts would be futile.

In some cases, after a person has become diseased, the body's defense, or medical treatment, may force the disease into a non-active state called ____________________.

____ mortis is the body's natural cooling.

Paramedics are often interested in the ____ of a disease, the sequence of events-at the molecular and cellular level-that lead to organ dysfunction.

____ causes include chemical causes, physical causes, infection/inflammation, and metabolic imbalances.

A person's race may be a risk factor, especially in cases of infectious disease.

____________________ is the likelihood that a situation could lead to harm.

Recovery means that the patient is unchanged from his or her previous condition.

The presences of the three mortis, as well as the signs of clinical death, are often felt to be sufficient to withhold resuscitative efforts.