BURN QUESTIONS
DESCRIBE A SUPERFICIAL BURN.
HOW WOULD YOU TREAT IT?
WHAT IS RED, DRY, AND PAINFUL.
WHAT IS STOP THE BURNING PROCESS. DRY DRESSINGS.
1. WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF AN OPEN CHEST WOUND?
2. WHAT TWO CONDITIONS CAN IT CAUSE?
3.TREATMENT?
1. WHAT IS ANY OPENING THAT AFFECTS THE PRESSURE OF THE THORACIC CAVITY.
2. WHAT IS CAUSES PNEUMOTHORAX AND TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX.
3. NRB 15 LPM AND VENTILATORY SUPPORT AS NEEDED. IF PROVIDING POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATIONS, REMOVE THE OCCLUSIVE DRESSING.
WHAT ARE THE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF AN CONCUSSION?
WHAT IS BRIEF LOSS OF CONCIOUSNESS, AMNESIA, SEEING "STARS", HEARING LOUD ECHO, VISION DISTURBANCE.
WHAT ARE SOME METHODS WE USE TO CONTROL BLEEDING ON A TRAUMA PATIENT?
WHAT IS DIRECT PRESSURE, PRESSURE DRESSINGS IF CONTROLLABLE, TOURNIQUET IF UNCONTROLLED.
WHAT IS SCENE SAFTEY.
HOW WOULD YOU TREAT ACID BURNS?
WHAT IS REMOVE CLOTHING AND FLUSH.
1. ONE LUNG COLLAPSED DUE TO LUNG INJURY OR OPEN THORACIC WOUND. ONE LUNG SOUND DIMINISHED WITH DYPNEA.
THIS IS WHAT CONDITION?
2. WHAT IS THE TREATMENT?
WHAT IS PNEUMOTHORAX.
WHAT IS TREATMENT IS NRB 15LPM AND VENTILATORY SUPPORT AS NEEDED.
NAUSEA, HEADACHE, VOMITING, LETHARGIC, AMS, SEIZURES, AND UNCONCIOUSNESS.
THESE ARE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF?
WHAT IS A BRAIN CONTUSION.
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WHAT IS COUMADIN, WARFARIN, HEPARIN.
WHAT DOES GCS STAND FOR?
WHAT IS GLASGOW COMA SCALE.
HOW WOULD YOU TREAT AN CHEMICAL EYE BURN?
WHAT IS REMOVE CONTACTS, OPEN EYES, AND FLUSH 20 MINUTES AFTER BURNING STOPS. MOIST DRESSINGS.
BLUNT FORCE TO THE CHEST CAUSING NEAR IMMEDIATE VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION/CARDIAC ARREST.
WHAT IS THE TREATMENT? (FROM OUR GRAPHIC ORGANIZER.)
WHAT IS COMMITIO CORDIS.
WHAT IS CPR AND THEN AED. (OBVIOUSLY LOAD-AND-GO/RAPID TRANSPORT)
YOU ARRIVE ON SCENE AND FIND YOUR PATIENT LAID ON THE SIDE WALK UNCONCIOUS WITH BLEEDING FROM HITTING HIS HEAD ON THE CONCRETE.
WHAT MUST YOU TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN IT COMES TO HEAD INJURY PATIENTS? (BEHAVIOR WISE.)
WHAT IS THE PATIENT WILL BE COMBATIVE AND CONFUSED UPON WAKING UP.
UNDERSTAND THAT THIS COULD BE DUE TO THE HEAD INJURY ITSELF.
WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF OPEN WOUNDS?
WHAT ARE ABRASIONS, LACERATIONS, OPEN FRACTURES, AVULSIONS, AMPUTATIONS.
DEFINE SHOCK.
HOW WOULD WE TREAT SHOCK PATIENTS?
WHAT IS HYPOPERFUSION.
WHAT IS NRB 15 LPM, SUPINE, BLANKET, RAPID TRANSPORT.
DESCRIBE A PARTIAL THICKNESS BURN.
TREATMENT?
WHAT IS RED AND BLISTERED.
REMOVE JEWELRY, CLOTHING, AND SHOES. DO NOT POP ANY BLISTERS, DRY DRESSINGS, KEEP PATIENT WARM, WATCH FOR SIGNS OF SHOCK, TREAT ACCORDINGLY. BE AWARE OF POSSIBLE AIRWAY BURNS AND AGGRESSIVE WITH O2 AND VENTILATORY SUPPORT.
JVD, NARROWING PULSE PRESSURE, MUFFLED HEART TONES, CLEAR LUNG SOUNDS OR SLIGHT CRACKLES.
WHAT CONDITION IS THIS?
WHAT IS CARDIAC TAMPONADE.
CUSHING SIGNS, HYPERTENSION, IRREGULAR, BREATHING, BRADYCARDIA, WIDENING PULSE PRESSURE.
WHAT IS TBI.
TREAMENT: PPV WITH BVM 15 LPM.
WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF CLOSED WOUNDS?
WHAT ARE CONTUSIONS, HEMATOMA, DISTENTION IN THE ABDOMEN, BROKEN BONES WITH NO OPEN WOUNDS.
HOW WOULD YOU TREAT AN EVICERATION?
DESCRIBE FULL THICKNESS BURNS.
HOW WOULD YOU TREAT IT?
WHAT IS SKIN PEELING OFF IN THICK LAYERS, BLACK CHARED APPERANCE, OR PEARLY WHITE.
REMOVE JEWELRY, CLOTHING, AND SHOES. DO NOT POP ANY BLISTERS, DRY DRESSINGS, KEEP PATIENT WARM, WATCH FOR SIGNS OF SHOCK, TREAT ACCORDINGLY. BE AWARE OF POSSIBLE AIRWAY BURNS AND AGGRESSIVE WITH O2 AND VENTILATORY SUPPORT.
BLUNT TRAUMA TO THE CHEST SO SUDDEN AND SEVERE, IT PUSHES A LARGE AMOUNT OF BLOOD TO THE AREA ABOVE INJURY. PATIENT WILL APPEAR CYANOTIC WITH BLOOD IN THE SCLERA OF THE EYES.
WHAT IS THE CONDITION?
WHAT TREATMENT IS NEEDED?
WHAT IS TRAUMATIC ASPHYXIA.
WHAT IS NRB 15LPM AND VENTILATORY SUPPORT AS NEEDED.
1. WHAT ARE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF EPIDURAL HEMATOMA?
TREATMENT?
2. WHAT ARE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF SUBDURAL HEMATOMA?
TREATMENT?
1. IMMEDIATE LOSS OF CONCIOUSNESS FOLLOWED BY A BRIEF PERIOD OF LUCIDITY, THEN COULD PROGRESS INTO SEIZURES, COMA, DEATH.
TREATMENT: NRB 15LPM AND VENTILATORY SUPPORT AS NEEDED.
2. GRADUAL ONSET TO UNCONCIOUS, NAUSEA, VOMITING, CONFUSION, LETHARGIC, AMS, SEIZURES, COMA.
TREATMENT: NRB 15 LPM AND VENTILATORY SUPPORT AS NEEDED.
DESCRIBE AN ARTERIAL BLEED.
DESCRIBE AN VENUS BLEED.
DESCRIBE AN CAPILLARY.
WHAT IS SPURTING, BRIGHT RED, ACTIVE BLEEDING.
WHAT IS DARK RED, FLOWING, ACTIVE BLEEDING.
WHAT IS OOZING, RED OR PINK (ABRASIONS)
HOW WOULD YOU TREAT A JOINT INJURY?