Trauma Potpourri
Blunt trauma occurs when _______________ but not the object enters the body and damages tissue.
What is energy (or kinetic energy)?
The connective tissue that connects bone to bone.
What is a ligament?
The major arteries AND veins of the neck.
What are the carotid and jugular
When two or more adjacent ribs are each fractured in two or more places.
What is a flail chest?
A wound where abdominal organs (most commonly intestines) are protruding from the wound.
What is an evisceration?
Pressure develops within the injured area. The tissue becomes hypoxic, which results in further damage and swelling.
What is compartment syndrome.
A grating or grinding sensation or sound caused by fractured bone ends or joint rubbing together.
What is crepitus?
Clear fluid that drains from nose and ear injuries when there is a skull fracture.
What is cerebral spinal fluid (CSF)?
Occurs with either an open or closed chest injury in which air accumulates in the pleural space and cannot escape.
What is a tension pneumothorax?
The common name for decompression sickness.
What is "the bends"?
In this wound, the mechanism of injury tears the skin off the underlying muscle, connective tissue, blood vessels and bone.
What is degloving?
The bone that is often broken when a person is hanged.
Bruising behind a patient's ears after a fall from a ladder.
What are battle signs?
Compression of the heart due to a buildup of blood or other fluid in the pericardial sac.
What is cardiac tamponade?
Two kinds of posturing that we might see with a person with a head injury.
What are decorticate and decerebrate?
As a result of a crush injury, acids and toxins may build up in the crushed limb. If blood flow returns, and carries these toxins back to the central circulation, this may cause ________ ______________.
What are cardiac arrhythmias.
The most common facial injury.
What is a nasal fracture?
Sudden cardiac arrest from blunt force to the precordial area.
What is Commotio Cordis?
Injury to muscle resulting in muscle death which then releases myoglobins.
What is rhabdomyolysis?
The three components of Cushing's Triad.
What are increased blood pressure, abnormal breathing pattern, decreased pulse?
A load applied along the vertical or longitudinal axis of the spine such as falling from a height and landing on the feet in an upright position.
What is an axial loading injury?
The large opening at the base of the skull through which the brain connects to the spinal cord.
What is the foramen magnum?
Amount of blood loss (%) needs to occur before a patient becomes hypovolemic.
What is 20%?