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.The paramedics would expect this patient’s core body temperature to be _____° F. (Refer to the previously described scenario.)

Where are peripheral thermoreceptors located?

The lowest blood pressure that can be defined as hypertension is ________mm Hg.

Use the following information to answer the next five questions:Paramedics are called to football training camp in late August. A 16-year-old has been exercising in the sun and sweating profusely. He has been drinking water at regular intervals throughout the day. His skin is hot and sweaty, and he is alert and normotensive.How would the paramedics expect this patient’s core body temperature to be? (Refer to the previously described scenario.)

What is the most severe form of high-altitude illness that presents with signs and symptoms of increased intracranial pressures?

Which statement most accurately reflects male victims of battering?

Paramedics are dispatched to the scene of a 5-year-old male with a visibly broken arm. The victim is extremely quiet and withdrawn and draws away from contact with the paramedics.  He does not want to sit in his mother’s lap when she tries to hold him.  When asked what happened, he quickly says that he fell out of a tree at the same time that his mother says he fell from his bike. The paramedics should suspect:

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

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

During assessment, paramedics discover the baby is crowning. The contractions are 1 minute apart. The patient is a gravida 3, para 2. How should the paramedics proceed?