Burnin Down the House
Diaphragmatic breathing is a sign of this type of injury
What is spinal Cord?
This is your main goal when you are triaging a scene
What is to determine which patients will receive treatment resources first?
This is how you transport an amputated body part
What is in a plastic bag while keeping it cool
This is your greatest concern with a patient presenting with epistaxis
What is the patient's airway?
Your patient has a laceration to the wrist. It is bleeding moderately. This is how you would control that bleeding.
What is direct pressure
Sunburn
1st degree
Your patient is breathing 10x per minute. They can not walk, but they have an open airway. They fit into this category considering the START triage method
What is RED?
During your assessment of a patient who has fallen on the ice, they are experiencing numbness and tingling in the toes. This is the type of injury you suspect.
What is spinal injury?
Your patient is presenting with diminished lung sounds, flat neck veins, dull to percussion. You suspect
What is a hemothorax?
The scene of an incident provides a number of patient's where the traditional response will be ineffective because of the large number of victims. This is called
What is a Mass Casualty Incident or MCI?
A thermal injury that appears to have damaged the skin, muscle, and bone of the patient.
What is a full thickness burn?
Your 10 year old patient is alone, outside riding his bike. He falls and injures his knee. It is bleeding mildly and easy to control. Using DCAPBTLS, you classify this injury as
What is an abrasion?
Your patient's thigh is impaled and stuck firmly to the ground. This is the best treatment for your patient
What is leave the object in place and contact the fire department to assist with extricating the patient?
Your patient has been in a motorcycle accident. You decide to leave the helmet on. You should do this to maintain the airway
What is pad the shoulders?
Your patient has an open chest wound. This is how you would dress that would
What is with an occlusive dressing with flutter valve?
Your patient is 33 years old sitting in a pool of blood. They are awake and alert but has a deep wound to the belly. This is how you would position your patient if you are concerned about an evisceration?
What is supine with knees bent?
When rolling a patient onto a spine board you roll them this direction in order to adequately control the torso.
What is toward me?
You have a patient with an isolated head injury. They appear uninjured on scene but then lose consciousness later. This is indicative of
What is intracranial pressure?
You are enroute to a personal injury accident where it was reported a snowmobile left the trail and struck a tree head-on at approximately 75 MPH. Response time was 20 minutes. The patient is unresponsive upon arrival and has several large lacerations to the torso and extremities. You note a significant
amount of blood loss due to the clothing being saturated with blood, but notice the wounds are no longer bleeding. The patient could be considered to be in this stage of shock
What is the end stages of shock. (Irreversible)
Your patient is bleeding heavily from a laceration of the leg. You applied direct pressure and 6 minutes later it is still bleeding. This should be your next step
What is apply a tourniquet?
I measure a C-collar this way
What is by measuring from the trapezius to the mandible?
You come across a significant bleed during your primary assessment of your patient. I must decide whether to move on with the assessment or stop here and immediately address it. You choose.
The patient with a spinal cord injury should be re-assessed frequently. This is important because
What is threat of continued swelling causing a neuro deficit?
This is the term we use to describe the sound we hear when percussing a pneumothorax
What is hyperresonance?
You should treat this injury type with a moist, sterile dressing soaked in NS and covered with an occlusive dressing
What is an evisceration?