Name that trauma!
A life-threatening chest injury characterized by jugular venous distention (JVD), tracheal deviation, and absent breath sounds.
What is a Tension Pneumothorax?
When assessing a patient with a suspected fracture, you might hear or feel this grating sound of bones rubbing together.
What is Crepitus?
The tiny air sacs where actual gas exchange takes place with the pulmonary capillaries.
What are alveoli?
During a rear-end impact, this specific cervical spine injury commonly occurs if headrests are misaligned.
What is whiplash (hyperextension/hyperflexion)?
This clinical triad—consisting of muffled heart sounds, jugular venous distention, and narrowing pulse pressure—indicates cardiac tamponade.
What is Beck's Triad?
Trauma resulting in internal abdominal organs protruding through the wound.
What is an Abdominal Evisceration?
Commonly known as the kneecap, this small bone protects the knee joint.
What is the Patella?
The hallmark sign of this upper airway pediatric infection is a seal-like, barking cough.
What is Croup?
This physical law explains why unrestrained occupants continue moving forward at the vehicle's initial speed during a sudden stop.
What is Newton's First Law of Motion (inertia)?
The name of the physiological reflex characterized by bradycardia, bradypnea, and widening pulse pressure, signaling a severe spike in intracranial pressure.
What is Cushing's Triad?
Dark red, oozing blood coming from a wound.
What is Venous Bleeding?
This wedge-shaped pelvic bone articulates with the ilium and gets its name from the Latin for "holy bone".
What is the Sacrum?
This acute condition causes severe respiratory distress and a cough productive of pink, frothy sputum.
What is a Pulmonary Edema?
This short spinal immobilization device is used for sitting patients who are clinically stable.
What is a vest-style extrication device (KED)?
The life-threatening clinical triad presenting as a sudden tear or ripping sensation characterized by severe chest/back pain, hypotension, and a palpable, pulsating abdominal mass.
What is the Triad of an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) rupture?
The type of fracture or injury indicated for the application of a traction splint.
What is an isolated, closed mid-shaft femur fracture?
The forearm contains these two parallel bones running from the elbow to the wrist.
What are the Radius and Ulna?
A late physical sign of hypoxia characterized by a bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes.
What is Cyanosis?
This safety device in modern steering wheels deploys at 200 mph and can injure rescuers if it hasn't gone off yet.
What is an airbag (SRS - Supplemental Restraint System)?
The metabolic state induced by the "Trauma Triad of Death," which includes hypothermia, coagulopathy, and this chemical imbalance.
What is Metabolic Acidosis?
A deceleration injury in a high-speed motor vehicle crash often causes a tear at this specific fixed anatomical tether point of the aorta, just distal to the left subclavian artery.
What is a traumatic aortic disruption (or aortic transection)?
This specialized band of dense regular connective tissue bridges bone to bone to stabilize joint structures.
What is a Ligament?
A rapid-acting beta-2 agonist bronchodilator commonly prescribed via MDI for asthma or COPD attacks.
What is albuterol?
This specific posture (arms flexed, legs stiff) indicates severe brain injury in an MVC patient.
What is decorticate posturing?
A toxidrome triad presenting with severe central nervous system (CNS) depression, respiratory depression, and miosis (pinpoint pupils).
What is the Opioid Overdose Triad?