Burns
The sensation a burn/scar gets when its healing and maturing.
Itch/Itchy
What do our cleft palate babies feed with?
Pigeon bottle
The application of a pulling force to a part of the body
Traction
The initial assessment of a patient that rapidly identifies and manages impending or actual threats to life.
Primary Survey (A-E)
What solution is used for fluid bolus?
Normal Saline
What is the term to describe the development of pimples on or around a burn injury?
Folliculitis
A condition referring to the premature fusion of one or more sutures of the skull
Craniosynostosis
What does it mean when a patient on full spinal precautions is 'cleared'
The spine has been deemed free of injury after clinical or radiological examination
When air leaks into the space between the lung & chest wall, causing the lung to collapse.
Pneumothorax
What is an NPA?
Nasopharyngeal Airway
The thick yellow layer on a burn wound that can be mechanically removed with debridement
Pseudoeschar
What do we use for mouth care for our cleft palate patients?
Cooled boiled water with the addition of mouth wash for patients following Pharyngoplasty and Alveolar Bone Graft procedures.
What is the management for Synovitis or Irritable Hip?
Rest and analgesia (anti-inflammatories), occasionally Bucks boots or skin traction
Name 2 assessments that could be done on a patient who has had a blunt abdominal injury.
Inspect / Palpate / Auscultate
Observe for: marks, bruises, wounds to abdomen, abdo distension, tenderness, guarding, Cullen's sign (bruising umbilical area - intraperitoneal bleeding), grey turners sign (bruising to flank - retroperitoneal bleeding)
Ward U/A
Bloods - ?Cap gas Hb check
Imaging
Girth measures
SFBC
No respiratory effort accompanied by bradycardia and/or a desaturation can be known as
Apnoea
The name of the formula used to calculate Burns Fluid Resuscitation and provide the actual formula.
Modified Parkland formula
%TBSA x weight (kg) x 2ml
Name 3 functions of VAC dressing?
Removes excess fluid, decrease oedema, optimises tissues perfusion, reduces micro-organisms and inflammatory mediators, promotes blood flow and new cell production, maintain wound temperature
What is the main risk with surgical intervention of an unstable SUFE?
Increased risk of avascular necrosis (disruption of blood supply to the femoral head)
Name 1 symptom that might indicate a patient has a base of skull fracture?
Bruising behind ears (Battle's sign), periorbital bruising (Racoon Eyes), CSF rhinorrhoea, CSF otorrhoae, blood behind eardrum
What is the ideal catheter tip placement for a PICC line?
The cavoatrial junction - the point where the superior vena cava enters the right atrium
With which burns presentations would an escharotomy be considered?
Patients with full thickness, circumferential burns showing neurovascular compromise
Describe a Free Flap?
The flap is detached from its original blood supply and reattached to the blood vessels of the recipient site.
A condition presenting with increased pressure within the fascial compartment resulting in compromise in tissue perfusion
Compartment Syndrome
The most commonly injured abdominal organ resulting from trauma.
Liver
What is used to reverse Local Anaesthetic toxicity?
Intralipids