During a rescue most stress comes from - Answer -uncertainty and apprehension
overcoming fear is a function of your _____ and _______ - Answer -knowledge, training
True or False: it is best to ignore the by-standers when dealing with an emergency -
Answer -False
Stress is - Answer -all of the above
a mentally or emotionally disruptive and upsetting condtion occuring in response to
adverse external influences
capable of affecting heart rate, rise in blood pressure, muscular tension, irritability, and
depression
a stimulus or circumstance causing such a conditions
True or False: Unchecked critical incident stress can lead to physical and emotional
illness - Answer -True
True or False: in a situation where your buddy is more advanced diver, your budding is
the ultimate decision maker regarding the dive - Answer -False
Temporary Contraindications - Answer -situation where a particular dive or particular
driving time might have ill effects and the person should not dive while condition still
exists
Women should not dive when they are pregnant because - Answer -there is no known
study that's studied the effects of scuba diving (pressure) on fetal development
Absolute Contraindications (AC) - Answer -situations were illnesses (respiratory or heart
disease) or medications would not allow a person to dive at all due to life threatening
potential
, AC diabetes - Answer -disorder that makes it difficult for the body to normally
metabolize food
AC tuberculosis - Answer -a bacterial disease of the lungs that may also affect the joints
and other organs of the body
AC epilepsy - Answer -common name for group of neurological disorders characterized
by confusion, muscular spasm, loss of motor control, unconciousness, or periodic
convulsive seizures
true or false: hyperbaric exposure can also have an unpredictable effect on a drugs
efficacy/outcome and invalidate dosage prescribed by doctor - Answer -true
which category of contraindication to diving activity recognizes that each individual
person is unique and that their respective ability to dive is not necessarily a clear issue?
- Answer -relative
The ___ provides a consultation and referral service to help doctors, divers and would
be divers locate local diving physicins that can make well informed decisions about
relative contraindications - Answer -Divers alert network (DAN)
task loading - Answer -a condition of having too many things to think about at once
nitrogen narcosis - Answer -a physiological condition caused by an increased partial
pressure of nitrogen, resulting in symptoms similar to those of intoxication
oxygen toxicity - Answer -A condition of excessive oxygen consumption resulting in
cellular and tissue damage.
What does ODIGTML mean - Answer -on dives I go through my life: oxxygen,
decompression, inert gas narcosis, gas management, thermal, mission, logistics
gas managment rule - Answer -half plus 14 bar or 200 PSI, this is the minimum
pressure in scuba cylinder to make way to exit point
Steps to determine respiratory minute volume (RMV) and Surface air consumption
(SAC) rate in metric units if a diver spends 15 minutes at a depth of 18 msw (60fsw) and
consumes 40 bar (580psi) of air from 11 liter cylinder (80 cubic feet with working
pressure of 3000 psi) - Answer -
Steps to determine respiratory minute volume (RMV) and Surface air consumption
(SAC) rate in imperial units if a diver spends 15 minutes at a depth of 18 msw (60fsw)
and consumes 40 bar (580psi) of air from 11 liter cylinder (80 cubic feet with working
pressure of 3000 psi) - Answer -
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