Thoracic Injuries
Who can initiate IS?
What is nursing or RT?
Rebound abdominal tenderness, abdominal rigidity, guarding, and pain are all components of this.
What is peritoneal sign?
5-10% of bladder injuries occur in patients with this fracture.
What is pelvic?
Antibiotics should be administered within this time frame for patients presenting with an open fracture.
What is 60 minutes?
This is an acute change in mental status that fluctuates and develops over days to weeks.
What is delirium?
This score is used to help standardize hospital admission and treatment strategies for patients with rib fractures.
What are The Rib Injury Guidelines?
The pancreas, small intestine, and the ascending and descending color are located here.
What is the retroperitoneum?
This sign is defined as ecchymosis over the flank.
What is Grey Turner's Sign?
This is the keystone of treatment for rhabdomyolysis.
What is aggressive hydration?
At what hemoglobin level should you hold VTE prophylaxis?
What is a trick question?
A tension pneumothorax will shift the mediastinum to this side.
What is opposite?
A tense, distended abdomen and oliguria can be signs of this.
What is abdominal compartment syndrome?
If you notice bleeding from the urinary meatus, you should not do this.
What is place a foley catheter?
This score helps determine the likelihood of limb salvageability.
What is the MESS Score?
A fracture to this can result in blood loss of 1500-3000mL.
What is the pelvis?
Distended neck veins, hypotension, and muffled heart sounds.
What is Beck's Triad?
Patients need this before being discharged after a splenectomy.
What are vaccinations?
This injury is more common in males than females.
What is urethral trauma?
Pain out of proportion to the injury, paresthesia, pallor, and paralysis are all signs of this.
What is compartment syndrome?
This hypothesis states the volume inside the cranium is fixed.
What is the Monro-Kellie Hypothesis?
This occurs when two or more adjacent ribs are fractures at two or more points.
What is flail chest?
This should alert the clinician to a possible intestinal injury.
What is seatbelt sign?
At Saint Alphonsus, sexual assault examinations will be done by this person.
What is a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE).
This is the best approach to pain management in the multi-trauma patient.
What is multimodal?
These four things make up the trauma diamond of death.
What is hypothermia, coagulopathy, acidosis, and hypocalcemia?