Pop it, Lock it, Shock it
When shock causes poor oxygen delivery, cells switch from aerobic metabolism to this type of metabolism.
What is anaerobic metabolism? (Trauma Shock Bleeding, slide 9)
The primary survey is used to rapidly find and manage immediate life threats involving these three major systems.
What are airway, breathing, and circulation? (Trauma Assessment, slide 15)
The three main mechanisms of blunt abdominal trauma are deceleration, compression, and this.
What is shear injury? (Abdominal Trauma, slides 21, 22, 27, and 28)
This wound involves part of the skin or tissue being torn away and can include degloving.
What is an avulsion? (Soft Tissue and Orthopedic Injuries, slide 11)
Heat is lost through this process when sweat evaporates from the skin.
What is evaporation? (Environmental Emergencies, slide 6)
During shock, ATP production may drop from 36–38 ATP down to about this number.
What is 2 ATP? (Trauma Shock Bleeding, slide 9)
You would choose a rapid head-to-toe assessment instead of a focused assessment for multisystem trauma, altered mental status, or this type of mechanism.
What is a significant mechanism of injury? (Trauma Assessment, slide 18)
A high-impact injury to the pubis bone, often from a motorcycle collision, can cause this type of pelvic fracture.
What is an open-book pelvic fracture? (Abdominal Trauma, slide 39)
This fracture type occurs when broken bone ends overlap or override each other.
What is an overriding fracture? (Soft Tissue and Orthopedic Injuries, slide 24)
In a cold environment, blood vessels constrict to minimize heat loss, and muscles do this to generate heat.
What is shiver? (Environmental Emergencies, slide 2)
When blood pressure drops, these receptors send signals to the brain.
What are baroreceptors? (Trauma Shock Bleeding, slide 10)
During neck assessment, you should assess C-spine, JVD, trachea, and these bones.
What are the clavicles? (Trauma Assessment, slide 29)
When assessing abdominal pain, you should begin palpating in the quadrant farthest from this.
What is the patient’s complaint or pain? (Abdominal Trauma, slide 77)
This type of fracture happens when the bone breaks in a twisting pattern.
What is a spiral fracture? (Soft Tissue and Orthopedic Injuries, slide 23)
Alcohol intoxication increases hypothermia risk because it impairs shivering, causes cutaneous vasodilation, and impairs this.
What is judgment? (Environmental Emergencies, slide 18)
A trauma patient has a normal SpO2 but has lost a large amount of blood. They may still be hypoxic because this blood component is low.
What is hemoglobin? (Trauma Shock Bleeding, slide 21)
Bruising or discoloration over the pelvis with a matching mechanism of injury may justify using this device.
What is a pelvic splint? (Trauma Assessment, slide 33)
Visible damage on the outside of the abdomen does not always show the severity of this.
What is internal damage? (Abdominal Trauma, slide 94)
A child with a new cast has severe pain, cold pale fingers, and pain not relieved by Tylenol or Motrin. This condition should be suspected.
What is compartment syndrome? (Soft Tissue and Orthopedic Injuries, slides 42–43)
Superficial frostbite can cause altered sensation, numbness, tingling, burning, and skin that looks white and this texture.
What is waxy? (Environmental Emergencies, slide 13)
A patient in hemorrhagic shock has a slow respiratory rate. This may mean they are in profound shock and close to this event.
What is cardiac arrest? (Trauma Shock Bleeding, slide 21)
Critical trauma patients should be reassessed every 3–5 minutes because their condition can quickly change or do this.
What is deteriorate? (Trauma Assessment, slide 41)
For an abdominal gunshot wound, you should not cut through bullet holes, discard clothing, place clothing in sealed plastic bags, or describe wounds using these two terms.
What are exit and entrance wounds? (Abdominal Trauma, slide 93)
When blood flow returns after crush syndrome, the patient can receive a “poison bolus” of potassium, acids, free radicals, and this muscle-breakdown protein.
What is myoglobin? (Soft Tissue and Orthopedic Injuries, slide 46)
In heat stroke, monitor lung sounds because this is a known complication.
What is pulmonary edema? (Environmental Emergencies, slide 11)