Trauma Part One
Trauma Part One
Bleeding
Soft-Tissue Injuries
Face and Neck Injuries
100
This assessment tool is used to describe how an injury has taken place, commonly used to detail traumatic injuries
What is mechanism of injury?
100
Gunshot Wounds are classified as what type of trauma?
What is Penetrating Trauma?
100
Blood that pools under intact skin causing discoloration?
What is a contusion?
100
Traumatic injury in which tissue that is torn away but still attached
What is an avulsion?
100
The most important initial treatment priority when treating a patient with facial trauma is?
What is the airway management?
200
The process of rapidly assessing and assigning priority of multiple patients at a scene.
What is Triage?
200
This tool is used to quickly identify any critical injuries sustained when assessing all trauma victims
What is the rapid trauma assessment?
200
What is the average amount of blood volume of an Adult
What is 5-6 Liters?
200
Name the three classes of burns?
What are superficial, partial thickness, and full thickness?
200
Blood pooling in the anterior chamber of the eye
What is Hyphema?
300
Name two examples that would raise concerns for a "significant MOI" for a trauma patient involved in an MVC?
Death of an occupant in the vehicle
Severe Deformity of vehicle/Intrusion into the passenger compartment
Catastrophic damage to the rear or front end of the vehicle
Ejection from the vehicle
300
Falls greater than ______ are considered significant for adult patients
What is 20 feet
300
How much blood can a patient lose before showing signs of shock? How much before a patient becomes fatal?
What is 15-30% and what is 40%
300
What are the 4 Types of thermal burns?
Electrical
Chemical
Thermal
Radiation
300
What are four major bone sections within the face?
Zygomas/Zygomatic Arches
Nasal Bone
Maxilla
Mandible
400
List all designated Trauma Centers in the Quad Cities Area
MercyOne Genesis Davenport East
MercyOne Genesis Silvis
UnityPoint/Trinity Rock Island
400
What is the Revised Trauma Score (RTS) designed to assess?
A physiologic scoring system that is also used to assess the severity of a trauma patient's injuries.
400
What body systems involved in a multisystem traumatic injury increase mortality rate significantly? (Name 3 out of 4)
Head, Spinal, Chest, Abdominal
400
Estimate the TBSA using the Rule of Nines
19yoM, victim of multiple burns after being trapped in a house fire
Partial Thickness burns to this chest and abdomen, Right Posterior Leg, and posterior head
Full thickness burns to both arms circumferentially and along patient's back
67.5%
400
Penetrating injuries to the neck have a high risk to develop this condition in the surrounding tissue?
What is Subcutaneous Emphysema?
500
What type of injuries should be considered for a patient that has been involved in an explosion? List 4 out 5
Thermal Burns
Bruised/Ruptured tissue due to concussive injuries
Blunt trauma from being struck by debris or being thrown
Crush injury from large objects falling or collapse
Penetrating trauma from Shrapnel/Fast moving objects
500
Why is a lateral impact collision often more lethal than a frontal collision?
What is less structural protection and direct transfer of force to vital organs?
500
What three components make up the “lethal triad” that worsens uncontrolled hemorrhage?
What are hypothermia, acidosis, and coagulopathy?
500
A patient has a deep penetrating wound to the thigh with exposed muscle and heavy bleeding. En route, the wound begins to show swelling, tightness, and loss of distal pulses.
What life-threatening condition is developing, and what is the immediate prehospital management?
Compartment syndrome
Immediate management is rapid transport with bleeding control, keeping the limb at heart level, and not delaying for advanced interventions
500
What is the most immediate airway concern with blunt laryngeal trauma?
What is airway obstruction from swelling or cartilage collapse?