1. Masks and gloves in the first-aid kit are necessary for the doctors personal protection.
2. The patients blood pressure is measured with the help of the portable electrocardiograph.
3. To take the temperature, nurses use thermometers.
4. Bleeding can be easily stopped with brilliant green or iodine or some other antiseptic.
5. Stretchers are used when a person has broken his leg.
6. Gastrointestinal disorders can be relieved with the help of enema, probe, hot water bottle.
7. The ambulance doctor monitors the patients heart work with portable artificial respiration apparatus.
8. A person suffering from asthma needs to use a set of splints.
Exercise 11. Translate the words in italics:
1. Out-of-hospital medical care is provided by .
2. Each ambulance has with , , , , etc.
3. The First Aid Stations are all day long, and they are always ready .
4. There are several kinds of ambulance teams: -, , , so on.
5. It is the dispatcher who the pre-arrival instructions.
6. An ambulance doctor, and are the members of an ambulance team.
7. The main thing in the work of the ambulance doctor is quickly.
8. In Ukraine there are ambulance services.
Exercise 12. a) Fill in the table:
Model: early earlier earliest
patiently more patiently most patiently
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| cold | ||
| late | ||
| usefully | ||
| carelessly | ||
| badly | ||
| little | ||
| many | ||
| easy |
b) Insert the appropriate form of the adverb. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian:
1. He runs than me. (fast)
2. She came of all. (early)
3. You should eat spicy food. (little)
4. He wrote his exam than any of us. (well)
5. It rained last night than last week. (heavily)
6. It took me than usual to make a correct diagnosis. (long)
7. He worked and each time to achieve the best results. (hard)
8. Everyone treated him than other patients at hospital. (kindly)
Exercise 13. Re-write sentences putting the verbs in brackets into the correct tense form. Translate sentences into Ukrainian:
1. Emergency medical service always (to provide) out-of-hospital medical care.
2. Yesterday, the ambulance (to transport) him to the trauma unit.
3. I (to call) in an ambulance, if the temperature (to keep) rising.
4. The nurse (to close) the wound with adhesive plaster after shes cleaned it.
5. Emetics are the drugs that (to make) you vomit.
6. The dispatcher (to be) responsible for the pre-arrival instructions.
7. All the ambulances (to have) first-aid kits.
8. The ambulance driver (to transport) patients carefully.
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Exercise 14. Put questions to the underlined words:
1. Ampoules, boxes and vials contain different drugs.
2. Disposable syringes are used for IV and IM injections.
3. The doctor gave his patient some sedative to calm him down.
4. She was administered procedure with probe because of gastric troubles.
5. He will take laxatives to relieve constipation.
6. It is necessary to dial up 103 to call in an ambulance.
7. During the examination the physician measured his blood pressure.
8. The role of the non-registered nurse is to keep the first-aid kit in order.
Exercise 15. a) Arrange the following sentences in order to describe the first-aid kit:
1. The first-aid kit may also contain narcotic medicines to relieve severe pain.
2. For example, there is alcohol, cotton wadding, disposable syringes for IV and IM injections.
3. Bandage and tourniquet are applied to stop bleeding.
4. Besides, there are antiseptics, brilliant green, iodine, adhesive plasters used to clean and close wounds.
5. Among medicines, there are pain-killers, antibiotics, emetics and anti-emetics, antipyretics, sedatives, laxatives, etc.
6. First-aid kit is a special case that contains all the necessary things for rendering the first aid.
b) Describe the first-aid station according to the plan in the table:
| 1. The type of establishment. | |
| 2. The services provided. | |
| 3. The equipment. | |
| 4. The ambulance team. | |
| 5. Kinds of EMS. |
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| . : - . : What does the emergency medical service provide? How many hours do the First Aid Stations work? What are the ambulances equipped with? What does the first-aid kit contain? What drugs are there in the first-aid kit? . : |
| Examination of the Patient |
Exercise 1. Topic vocabulary:
| breathlessness, n | ['breθlisnis] | |
| cough, n | ['kɔ:f] | |
| dizziness, n | [ˈdizinis] | |
| edema, n | [iˈdi:mə] | |
| estimate, v | [ˈestimit] | |
| fissure, n | [ˈfi∫ә] | |
| fracture, n | [ˈfrækt∫ә] | |
| haemorrhage, n | ['hemәriʤ] | |
| headache, n | ['hedeik] | |
| height, n | [hait] | |
| mental, adj | [ˈmentl] | , |
| murmur, n | [ˈmɜ:mə] | |
| palpation, n | [pælˈpeiʃn] | () |
| pathogenesis, n | [ˏpæθəˈʤenisis] | ( ) |
| percussion, n | [pəˈkʌʃn] | () |
| rales, n, pl. | [ra:lz] | |
| reveal, v | [riˈvi:l] | |
| swelling, n | [ˈsweliƞ] |
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Exercise 2. Read correctly:
ture [ʧə]: picture, fracture, nature, mixture, lecture, culture, fixture, creature, temperature;
sure [ʒə]: pleasure, measure, treasure, exposure, seizure, BUT ssure [ʃə]: pressure;
(t)ch [ʧ]: chill, chest, chin, cheek, each, much, rich, cheese, torch, touch, match, kitchen;
ch [k]: mechanism, headache, chemistry, stomach, character, technique, scheme, school;
g [g]: g a in, g o ssip, g u llet, fla g, g roin, gold, good, beg, glad, gall-bladder, gut;
g [ʤ]: g e m, g i n, g y m, stage, age, gel, luggage, damage, image, genesis, cage;
BUT g [g]: g i ft, g i rl, g e t, g i ve.
Exercise 3. a) Form the nouns with the term-elements. Explain the meaning of term-elements. Translate the pair of words into Ukrainian:
a) form the nouns with the term-element -ache: head, ear, stomach, back, tooth, arm;
b) form the nouns with the term-element patho-: genesis, biology, biochemistry, anatomy, metabolism, occlusion, physiology;
c) form the nouns with the term-element haemo-: capillary, diagnosis, dynamics, globin, dialysis, angioma.
Exercise 4. Read and translate the following word-combinations:
diagnosis: correct diagnosis, incorrect diagnosis, exact diagnosis, the diagnosis of nephritis, to make a diagnosis;
disease: a pulmonary disease, a renal disease, a mental disease, to reveal a disease, to cure a disease;
examination: examination of the patient, proper examination, physical examination, visual examination, instrumental examination;
procedure: an easy procedure, a difficult procedure, a necessary procedure, to administer a procedure, to carry out a procedure on an empty stomach;
symptom: an objective symptom, a subjective symptom, a severe symptom, a mild symptom, the symptoms of pneumonia.
Exercise 5. Read the words and translate them without dictionary:
aetiology, auscultation, accumulation, cystoscopy, dysfunction, electrocardiogram, leukocytosis, palpation, tuberculosis, pathogenesis, percussion.
Exercise 6. Read and translate the following word-combinations:
before treating; to establish a diagnosis; to determine the aetiology of the disease; to know well the pathogenesis of the disease; a number of different procedures; history-taking; to include palpation, percussion, auscultation; to consist of urinalysis and blood analysis; to take electrocardiogram; to estimate the physical and mental state; to carry out an examination; to determine the borders of internal organs; fractures and fissures.
Exercise 7. Read and translate the text:
