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NREMT Practice Test Bank - 4q Multiple Choice-4

This document discusses heat loss in the body and ways to decrease it. It states that moving to a warmer environment is the quickest way to decrease heat loss from radiation and convection. Shivering generates heat rather than reducing heat loss. Layered clothing provides good insulation and decreases heat loss better than a single thick jacket by trapping air. Removing your hand from cold objects decreases heat loss by conduction.

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NREMT Practice Test Bank - 4q Multiple Choice-4

This document discusses heat loss in the body and ways to decrease it. It states that moving to a warmer environment is the quickest way to decrease heat loss from radiation and convection. Shivering generates heat rather than reducing heat loss. Layered clothing provides good insulation and decreases heat loss better than a single thick jacket by trapping air. Removing your hand from cold objects decreases heat loss by conduction.

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NREMT Practice Test Bank - Multiple

Choice
• D:move to a warmer environ- circulating air, as when cool air moves
ment. across the body's surface. A person
standing in windy cold weather, wear-
ing lightweight clothing, is losing heat to
the environment mostly by convection.
The quickest and most obvious way to
decrease heat loss from radiation and
convection is to move out of the cold
environment and seek shelter from wind.
Shivering increases the body's metabo-
lism and is a mechanism for generating
heat, not reducing heat loss. Layers of
clothing trap air and provide excellent in-
sulation; thus, layered clothing decreas-
es heat loss better than a single, thick
jacket. Conduction is the direct transfer
of heat from a part of the body to a colder
object by direct contact, as when a warm
hand touches cold metal or ice.The most
obvious way to decrease heat loss by
conduction is to remove your hand from
the cold object.

8. A near-drowning is MOST accu- You selected C; This is correct!


rately defined as:
• A:complications within 24 Reason:Collectively, drowning and
hours following submersion in near-drowning are referred to as sub-
water. mersion injuries. Drowning is defined
• B:immediate death due to pro- as death after submersion in a liquid
longed submersion in water. medium, usually water. In a drowning,
• C:survival for at least 24 hours death is either immediate or occurs
following submersion in water. within 24 hours following submersion.
• D:death greater than 24 hours Near-drowning is defined as survival, at
following submersion in water. least temporarily (24 hours), after sub-
mersion. It should be noted, however,
that complications such as pneumonia
and pulmonary edema can cause death
greater than 24 hours following submer-
sion. For this reason, all patients with a
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