Trauma Centers & ATLS
This trauma center level provides comprehensive specialty surgical services and serves as a regional trauma resource center.
What is a Level I Trauma Center?
This type of cerebrovascular accident occurs when cerebral blood flow is obstructed by a thrombus or embolus.
What is an ischemic stroke?
This shock state results from inadequate circulating blood volume secondary to hemorrhage or severe fluid loss.
What is hypovolemic shock?
This burn classification involves damage limited to the epidermis.
What is a first-degree burn?
This heat-related illness occurs when electrolyte depletion causes painful skeletal muscle spasms.
What are heat cramps?
This trauma protocol focuses on rapid assessment, resuscitation, stabilization, and transfer decisions for critically injured patients.
What is Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)?
This stroke mnemonic includes facial drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulty, and time-sensitive intervention.
What is FAST?
This type of distributive shock is associated with widespread vasodilation caused by severe allergic hypersensitivity reactions.
What is anaphylactic shock?
The presence of vesicles or blisters is most characteristic of this burn classification.
What is a second-degree burn?
A patient with hyperthermia, altered mental status, and anhidrosis is most likely experiencing this emergency.
What is heat stroke?
A Level III trauma center can provide intensive care and operative management but commonly transfers patients to these higher levels of care
What are Level I or Level II trauma centers?
This pharmacologic agent may be administered within a narrow treatment window to dissolve thrombi during ischemic stroke.
What is tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)?
This shock type is characterized by impaired myocardial pumping ability resulting in decreased cardiac output.
What is cardiogenic shock?
This burn assessment tool estimates total body surface area affected by burns
What is the Rule of Nines?
This life-threatening cold emergency occurs when core body temperature decreases below normal physiologic range.
What is hypothermia?
This neurological assessment tool evaluates eye opening, verbal response, and motor response to determine a patient’s level of consciousness.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)?
A temporary neurologic deficit caused by transient cerebral ischemia is known by this acronym.
What is a transient ischemic attack (TIA)?
A septic patient presenting with hypotension, tachycardia, altered mental status, and oliguria is experiencing this condition.
What is septic shock?
According to the adult Rule of Nines, the anterior trunk represents this percentage of total body surface area.
What is 18%?
As hypothermia progresses, this compensatory physiologic response eventually ceases.
What is shivering?
A sudden decline in LOC during trauma care may indicate worsening cerebral perfusion, intracranial pressure changes, or this generalized physiologic condition.
What is shock?
This type of cerebrovascular accident occurs when a cerebral aneurysm or AVM ruptures, causing intracranial bleeding.
What is a hemorrhagic stroke?
Bradycardia and hypotension following spinal cord trauma are hallmark findings of this shock state.
What is neurogenic shock?
A patient with full-thickness burns to both lower extremities has approximately this total body surface area burned.
What is 36%?
This intervention is prioritized when treating moderate-to-severe hypothermia.
What is rewarming the body core?