Head to Toe
A tear or a flap of skin
What is an avulsion?
A chest wound where pink frothy blood is seen
What is a sucking chest wound?
Place ______ in the armpits, groin, and neck of a patient.
What is an icepack?
Blue lips and fingers
What is cyanosis?
A way to check for sensation at the extremities
What is squeezing a finger or toe and asking the patient to identify which one you touched
_________ movement is also known as flail chest.
Paradoxical
The most identifiable difference between heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
What is excessive sweating in heat exhaustion?
A patient's skin will look like this during a cold emergency
What is pale and cool?
Qualities of a full thickness burn
... goes hand in hand with a protrusion
What is a puncture
When treating a patient that got stabbed in the chest, you notice pink frothy blood. You decide to apply this bandage.
What is a three-sided bandage?
The method in which a patient consumes water if they have heat stroke
What is wetting the lips?
Qualities of patient's vitals in a severe cold emergency.
What is decreased - slower, shallow, irregular?
Use burn gel to deal with _______ burns, but NOT _______ or _______ burns.
What is superficial, partial thickness, and full thickness?
Creaking and grinding felt in a patient's knee after a traumatic Quidditch accident
What is crepitus
A mad scientist in the chemistry department did an experiment where something exploded. The scientist was hit in the chest with shrapnel. Along with the hole in the scientist's chest, you may also be concerned for this.
What is an exit wound?
Patients with heat exhaustion should NOT do this with a bottle of water.
What is chug it down?
True/False
If a patient stops shivering, this means they are no longer having a cold emergency
What is false!!
The reason that we cover full thickness burns loosely
What is to keep debris out?
Each letter in DCLAAPPS stands for...
What is...
Deformities
Contusions
Lacerations
Abrasions
Avulsions
Punctures
Protrusions
Swelling
You are called to a patient who is having trouble breathing after falling off their bike and crashing into a fence. After noticing some asymmetry in their neck, you may be concerned with this.
What is tracheal deviation?
The signs and symptoms of heat stroke
What is...
Stopped sweating
Nausea
Cramps
Decreased LOA
The three steps of treatment in a cold emergency
What are...
Warm the patient up gradually
Take vital rates over one minute
Call 911
5 factors that affect the severity of a burn situation
Severity of the burn itself
Location of a burn
Area covered by the burn
Cause of a burn
Age of the patient