Signs and Symptoms
A visible sign on the skin indicative of internal bleeding
What is ecchymosis?
The reduction of muscle size due to disease or trauma
What is atrophy?
The first step ALWAYS of any trauma assessment
What are standard precautions (BSI/PPE/scene safety)?
The quadrant of the abdomen that the stomach and spleen are in
What is the LUQ?
The chemicals lost by our body when we sweat
What are electrolytes?
Occurs when a bone bends and cracks instead of breaking into separate pieces
What is a greenstick fracture?
The type of energy someone has when standing at an elevated surface
What is potential energy?
The position the hand is placed in after splinting
What is the position of function?
The lining of the chest cavity
What is the parietal pleura?
How we check a patient’s temperature non-invasively
What is the back of the hand to the patient’s abdomen?
A blow to the chest that causes a sudden arrhythmia that leads to cardiac arrest
What is commotio cordis?
The I in TIC
What is instability?
The injury for which we irrigate the eye
What is eye contamination with a chemical?
The vertebrae at which the phrenic nerves that control the diaphragm exit the spinal cord
What are C3, C4, C5?
The loss of heat from wind blowing by a person’s body
What is convection?
The emergency associated with JVD, muffled heart tones, and a narrowing pulse pressure
What is cardiac tamponade?
A DRGERM symptom caused by swelling of the abdominal cavity, most likely from internal bleeding
What is distention?
Treatment for a mid-shaft femur fracture with no other injury
What is a traction splint?
The percent of total brain blood volume that the cerebrum contains
What is 75%?
The temperature at which shivering stops in a hypothermic patient
What is 90ºF?
The three points of Cushing’s triad of ICP
What are bradycardia, hypertension, and irregular respirations?
What DCAPBTLS stands for
What are deformities, contusions, abrasions, punctures/penetrations, burns, tenderness, lacerations, and swelling?
The treatment for abdominal evisceration
What is moist sterile dressing covered with 4-sided occlusive dressing?
The ball-and-socket joint that connects the humerus to the scapula
What is the glenohumeral joint?
What vessels do when exposed to a hot environment
What is vasodilate?