EXERCISES, LESSON 4
INSTRUCTIONS. Answer the following exercises by writing the answer in the space
provided.
After you have completed all of these exercises, turn to "Solutions to Exercises" at
the end of the lesson and check your answers. For each exercise answered incorrectly,
reread the material referenced with the solution.
1.
What is an ingested poison? _________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
2.
Define acute poisoning. ____________________________________________
________________________________________________________________.
3.
List three methods of removing poisons from the body.
a. ____________________________________.
b. ____________________________________.
c.
____________________________________.
4.
The patient is awake and alert and must be treated for salicylate poisoning.
Induce vomiting by ____________________________________.
_________________________ food poisoning is the most common type of food
5.
poisoning in the United States.
6.
Two good reference books on poisonings and their treatments are ___________
and ________________________________.
7.
The quickest and most effective way to evacuate the contents of the stomach is
______________________________________.
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