During a mass casualty, a color is assigned to patients based on severity of injury. This color indicates the patient needs emergent care.
What is Red
Red indicates emergent, life-threatening injuries. Yellow is urgent major illness requiring care within an hour. Green indicates nonurgent patient who can self-treat. Black signifies the patient is dead or near death
Patients receive treatment based on the assessment of greatest chances for survival matched to resources available for medical intervention.
The reason why patients with MODS can experience both primary and secondary MODS
What is
•Primary MODS results from a well-defined insult in which organ dysfunction occurs early and is directly attributed to the insult itself.
•Secondary MODS is a consequence of widespread sustained systemic inflammation that results in dysfunction of organs not involved in the initial insult.
MAIN ACTION in preventing microorganisms from invading the body and is ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY ESSENTIAL components of preventive nursing care...
What is: hand HYGIENE
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The first hour of emergent care, the “golden hour", focuses on THREE MAIN OBJECTIVES!
What is rapid assessment, resuscitation, and treatment of life-threatening injuries?