Trauma Skills
This piece of equipment is used for a midshaft, closed femur facture.
What is a traction splint
Your patient has an open fracture to the left forearm. They are awake and talking to you. They are ambulatory. RR: 23. Radial pulse is present.
What is green
This is the normal range of a respiratory rate for adults.
What is 12-20 breaths/minute
This is a piece of equipment that is placed in a patient's nose to help keep their airway clear.
What is an NPA
What is 3
This piece of equipment is used when moving a patient who is needing to be spinally immobilized. It is unable to be bent and the patient has be to be rolled onto it.
What is a backboard
Your patient is found lying in a prone position. Bleeding noted to the left temple and a large puddle in front of him. Unconscious. Non-ambulatory. RR: 2. Weak radial pulse.
What is black
This vital sign's normal range is 60-100
What is heart rate
This piece of equipment is used to help a patient breathe when they are unable to do so themselves or are not adequately doing it.
What is BVM
Eyes open to painful stimulus. They are confused. They follow commands appropriately.
What is 12
This piece of equipment is used to help keep a patient's cervical spine in-line.
What is a C-Collar
Your patient is sitting upright in the corner of a building. They are awake and talking ad complaining of severe leg pain. They are unable to walk. RR: 20. Radial pulse is present.
Yellow
What is 94-100%
This piece of equipment is used to help maintain a patient's airway and when they don't have a gag reflex.
What is OPA
Eyes are open spontaneously. They are confused. They follow commands appropriately.
What is 14
This piece of equipment is applied when someone has uncontrollable bleeding even after direct pressure and elevation are performed.
What is a tourniquet
Your patient is found in a supine position. You find that the left leg is amputated from the knee down. RR: 22. Weak radial pulse.
What is red
This is the textbook perfection number for a blood pressure.
What is 120/80
This skills is performed by paramedics to help a patient breathe who is unable to and has to be placed by using a laryngoscope handle and ET Tube
What is intubation
Eyes are open to verbal stimulus. They aren't able to talk. They withdraw from pain.
What is 9
This piece of equipment is used when someone has uncontrollable bleeding in a joint area.
What is a junctional tourniquet
The patient is sitting up against a wall. They are able to talk to you but find that they don't know what happened or where they are. RR: 17. Radial pulse is present.
What is red
This vital sign is used to check the pressure that is in the vasculature when the heart is contracting and relaxing.
What is a blood pressure
What is height
Eyes open to pain. They only mumble. They withdraw their hand when you touch it.
What is 10