Burns & Drowning
The way to determine % of body burned
What is the Rule of Nines
Chemical or pepper-spray treatments to the eyes
What is flushing with water/ normal saline
Placed incase of cervical spine injury
What is C-collar
Often results from landing on ones feet
What is a compression fracture
Best way to find a distracting injury?
What is a secondary assessment
What is airway burns and smoke inhalation
True/ False: You are to cover only the affected eye for burns or penetrating injuries
False
The lowest acceptable systolic BP before fluid resuscitation is required
What is below 90
Bruising behind the ear, often indicative of basilar skull fracture
What is battle sign
Found on windshield, often indicates head injury
Consider inhibiting burning process with...
Flushing with water or normal saline, remove non-adherent clothing, brush off powders/ substances
These are the ways to treat dental avulsion
Soak dressing in milk or hanks solution
Medication given with suspected internal bleeding
What is TXA
The height considered to be a high-impact mechanism of injury
20 feet
Amount of deformity into pt compartment
What is intrusion
When a pt goes under the water immediately, has a hypoxic cardiac arrest, and then cools down. Prognosis considered dismal.
What is Submersion
Anti ______ is strongly considered for penetrating or blunt eye trauma.
What is anti-emetic
Preferred analgesic agent for unstable trauma pt's
What is ketamine
Signs and symptoms of tension pneumothorax
Increasing signs of tachycardia/ hypotension
Asymmetric or absent unilateral breath sounds
Increasing respiratory distress
JVD
Penetrating injuries are considered high risk when...
They are proximal to the knees or elbows
Patients are in the water with their head above water and they continue to breathe while they cool down before they eventually arrest. Prognosis can be good with pt's surviving after prolonged CPR.
What is Immersion
The medication given to eye injuries in the field
What is tetracaine
Muffled heart tones, jugular vein distention, narrowing pulse pressure
What is Beck's triad
Needle decompression sites
What is the 2nd intercostal space mid-clavicular
What is the 4th to 5th intercostal space anterior axillary
What makes the trauma triad of death?
Hypothermia, Acidosis, Coagulopathy