Exercise 6. Answer the questions:
1. What kind of medical condition is shock?
2. What conditions can shock lead to?
3. What are the symptoms of shock?
4. How many types of shock are there?
5. What is the cause of septic shock?
6. What is hypovolemic shock treated?
7. What types of shock do not respond to treatment? Why?
8. What is a common treatment for shock?
Exercise 7. Join nouns with corresponding adjectives. Translate the word-combinations:
1. life-threatening
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a) blood flow
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2. clammy
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b) eyes
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3. insufficient
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c) arrest
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4. shallow
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d) condition
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5. glassy
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e) emergency
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6. cardiac
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f) breathing
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7. medical
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g) damage
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8. irreversible
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h) skin
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Exercise 8. Match symptoms with their definitions:
1
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hypoxia
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a)
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lack of clearness of mind
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2
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seizure
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b)
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excretion of salty liquid through the skin pores
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3
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dizziness
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c)
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condition when a patient cannot control his movements
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4
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confusion
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d)
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worry and tension caused by apprehension
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5
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sweating
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e)
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not blinking enough gives the eyes a shiny appearance like glass
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6
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glassy eyes
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f)
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not deep respiration
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7
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anxiety
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g)
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lack of oxygen in body’s tissues
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8
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shallow breathing
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h)
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feeling when the head goes round
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Exercise 9. Give the English equivalents:
Супроводжувати важку травму, брак кисню в тканинах тіла, запаморочення та сплутана свідомість, відбуватися внаслідок, виділяти токсин, скляний зір та судоми, розрив апендикса, надмірна чутливість до ліків, значна втрата рідини, підвищити кров’яний тиск, незначний та тяжкий випадки, підозрювати шоковий стан після травми, невідкладна допомога.
Exercise 10. What would you do in case of shock? Say whether the following statements true or false:
1. Move a person who is suspected to have neurogenic shock.
2. Wait for the symptoms of shock worsen, and only then call in an ambulance.
3. Immediately call in an ambulance.
4. Leave a person alone with his trouble.
5. Have a person lie down on the back with the feet elevated above the head to increase blood flow to vital organs.
6. Raise a person’s feet above the head to increase blood flow to vital organs even if raising legs causes pain.
7. Check a person’s breathing every two minutes.
8. Don’t give a person anything to drink so as to avoid loss of consciousness.
Exercise 11. Insert preposition where necessary:
1. Any health troubles start with damages … cells.
2. He got spinal cord injury … a result of a car crash.
3. Shock is an emergency condition that threatens … life.
4. Toxins, released … the blood by bacteria, cause septic shock.
5. Only a small number of people survive … cardiogenic shock.
6. In summer a lot of people suffer allergic reactions … insect stings.
7. The injury after the accident was accompanied … the state of shock.
8. Medical shock differs … the emotional one which follows some frightening event.
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