Kinematics
Small changes in this variable of the kinetic energy formula causes large changes in the energy delivered.
What is velocity?
This type of dressing is applied to open chest wounds.
What is an occlusive dressing?
This is the area of injury around the path of a high velocity projectile.
What is the cavity or wound cavity?
The maximum amount of time an EMS unit should spend on scene with a patient with significant trauma.
What is ten minutes?
The preferred type dressing for a burn injury.
What is dry and sterile?
This part of the scene size-up can assist in predicting the injuries to your patient.
What is mechanism of injury (MOI)?
The first step to treating an external bleed.
What is direct pressure?
The two basic types of injuries.
What are blunt and penetrating?
The target SpO2 for a trauma patient.
What is 95%?
This burn is painful and presents with blisters.
What is partial thickness/ 2nd degree burn?
The number of impacts that occur during an MVC.
What is three?
Car v. object
Occupant v. car
Organs v. occupant
This type of bleed is characterized by a steady, slow flow of dark red blood.
What is a venous bleed?
The vast majority of fatal gunshot wounds involve these three body areas.
What are the head, thorax, and abdomen?
If the patient has significant bleeding, this is the priority of care.
What is bleeding control?
The BSA burned for an adult patient with 2nd degree burns to their anterior chest, anterior abdomen, and gentials.
What is 19%?
A vehicle occupant's chance of death increases 25x when this occurs.
What is ejection from the vehicle?
This dressing contains agents which promote blood clotting.
What is a hemostatic dressing?
The number of injury phases caused by a blast.
What is five?
Pressure wave, blast wave, displacement, hazardous materials, and structural collapse
This type of hospital can care for the trauma patient from the ED through rehabilitation.
What is a Level I Trauma Center?
Before flushing with water, dry chemicals must be removed by this method.
What is brushing?
In a fall, the severity of the injury depends upon, the distance, surface and this other factor.
What is body part that impacts first?
The reason behind keeping a bleeding patient warm.
What is to protect the blood's ability to clot?
This is an insult to a body system which results in an injury.
What is a trauma?
The absolute priority at the scene of a traumatic injury.
What is personal safety?
This degree of burn is not calculated in BSA.
What is first degree/ superficial burn?