Current (not so) Trivial Facts:

• 41 percent of all traffic crashes are alcohol-related.
• Nearly 600,000 Americans are injured in alcohol-related traffic crashes each year.
• Someone dies in an alcohol-related traffic crash every 30 minutes. Every two minutes someone is hurt (nonfatally injured) in an alcohol-related accident.
• Three out of every 10 Americans face the possibility of being directly involved in an alcohol-related traffic crash during their lifetime.

Amazing Tidbits Trivia Archives

• 41 percent of all traffic crashes are alcohol-related.
• Nearly 600,000 Americans are injured in alcohol-related traffic crashes each year.
• Someone dies in an alcohol-related traffic crash every 30 minutes. Every two minutes someone is hurt (nonfatally injured) in an alcohol-related accident.
• Three out of every 10 Americans face the possibility of being directly involved in an alcohol-related traffic crash during their lifetime.
• A sneeze can travel 6 feet.
• One sneeze can infect 150 people.
• A sneeze travels at 90 miles per hour.
• One sneeze propels 100,000 droplets into the air.
• Which has less germs, a toilet seat or the door handle? (The toilet seat!)
• Which has more germs, a toilet seat or the average office desk? (The average office desk!)
• Hepatitis C is 4000 times more infectious than HIV.
• Properly performed, CPR delivers less than 30% of the hearts normal flow of oxygenated blood to the brain.
• A red blood cell can circumnavigate your whole body in 20 seconds.
• Your blood is on a 600,000 mile journey.
• NAAP, Stands for National Association of Activity Professionals (Week of recognition: January 23rd to 28th, 2010).
• AANA, Stands for American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (44,000 nurse anesthetists administered 32 million anesthetics in 2009).
• Folic acid is a vitamin B and taking supplemental folic acid during pregnancy can prevent serious birth defects.
• Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness world-wide and if detected and treated early can lessen vision loss.
• You can easily establish adequate airway control during CPR without interruption of chest compressions with the King Airway.
• The King Airway provides adequate oxygenation during cardiac resuscitation but does not prevent potential aspiration of gastric contents.
• A cough travels at 100 km/h.
• The mosquito is the most dangerous animal in the world. 3000 people die each day from Malaria.
• World wide, 515 million people are infected.
• In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 625 sweat glands, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.

Question: What is the skin that peels off after a bad sunburn?
Answer: Blype.

Question: What is a perfusionist's role in a hospital operating room?
Answer: Running the heart-lung machine during open-heart surgery. The machine keeps the patient's heart pumping while it removes carbon dioxide from the blood and adds oxygen to it.

Question: The EMS physician's oversight of the patient care aspects of the EMS Systems is referred to as what?
Answer: Medical Director

Question: Orders given to the EMT-B by telephone or radio are called what?
Answer: On-line medical direction.

Question: How many fat cells does the average adult have?
Answer: Between 40 and 50 billion.

If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 62,000 miles.

It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.

A sneeze travels at over 100 miles per hour. Gesundheit!!

Question: Who invented the thermometer?
Answer: Galileo

1903 - Willem Einthoven invented the electrocardiogram. He coined the term electrokardiogram (EKG) now changed to electrocardiogram (ECG).

1816 - Dr. Rene Laennec developed the first monaural stethoscope. He rolled 24 sheets of paper to make a tube. One end placed on the patient's chest and the other end in the doctor's ear. The first stethoscope was made of wood and was designed for use by one ear. By 1852 it had been modified to a two-ear instrument with rubber tubing similar to those used today. By 1855 a stethoscope similar to the one used during most of the 20th century became available.

1948 - George de Mestral began the design for Velcro and by 1955 the final design was patented.

1921: Earle Dickson, cotton buyer for Johnson & Johnson invented the band-aid.

1950s: The United States pioneered helicopter-ambulances during the Korean War.

1968: St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City started the first mobile coronary care unit.

What is the definition of the medical term: Borborygmi?
Answer: The rumbling sounds of the stomach due to moving gas. ;-)

Can a person with unequal pupils be considered normal?
Answer: Yes, this condition is called "Anisocoria".

1736 - Benjamin Franklin founds Union Fire Company, first volunteer fire department in America.