Soft Tissue
This develops when edema and swelling result in increased pressure within a closed soft-tissue compartment.
What is compartment syndrome?
Bleeding in the mouth can lead to the ingestion of blood. This will lead to vomiting because ingested blood acts at this, which induces vomiting.
What is an emetic?
Signs of a skull fracture include this type of ecchymosis under the eyes.
What is racoon eyes?
This felt upon palpation when broken bone ends grind together.
What is crepitus?
The stomach, large and small intestine, gallbladder, ureters, and urinary bladder constitute this type of organs.
What are hollow organs?
Per the rule of nines, this is the percentage of body surface area for the adult leg.
What is 18%?
When one eye is injured, an EMT should do this with the other eye as part of their treatment.
These are the two categories of traumatic brain injuries.
What are primary (direct) and secondary (indirect) injury?
This is occurs when multiple ribs are fractured and sections of the chest begin to retract during inhalation.
What is paradoxical chest motion?
This occurs internally when the pressure wave from a high speed projectile is transferred to the surrounding tissues.
What is cavitation?
This is a build up of blood beneath the skin that produces a characteristic blue or black discoloration as the result of any injury.
What is ecchymosis?
When flushing containments from the eye, the EMT should begin here, to ensure the other eye remains unaffected.
What is the inner corner of the eye?
This type of spinal injury occurs when force is applied along the vertical or longitudinal axis of the spine.
What is an axial loading injury?
This characteristic of the chest in pediatric patients allows for significant injury or compression of the chest to be masked because the ribs do not fracture the same as adults.
What is flexibility?
When treating an evisceration, the protruding organs should be covered with type of dressing.
What is a moist, sterile dressing?
Contusions, hematomas, and crush injuries are classified as these types of injuries.
What is a closed soft tissue injury?
This is the most common type of facial fracture.
What is the mandible (lower jaw)?
These are the three signs and symptoms of the Cushing Triad.
What is hypertension, bradycardia, and Cheyne-Stokes (irregular) respirations?
A sucking chest wound, also known as this, calls for the application of a chest seal.
What is an open pneumothorax?
Bruising to the upper left quadrant can be a sign of any injury to this organ.
What is the spleen?
There are this many stages of a pressure ulcer.
What are four stages?
Penetrating trauma to the neck needs to be cover with this item in order to prevent an air embolism.
What is an occlusive dressing?
These two form of posturing may be present in the patient with a head injury.
What is decorticate and decerebrate?
These are three signs and symptoms are known as Beck's Triad.
What is jugular vein distention, narrowing pulse pressure, and muffled heart tones.
Listening for these sounds, prehospitally, is usually of limited value when assessing a trauma patient.
What are bowel sounds?