I’m Only Human
My goal is to prevent retraumatization and it is now a standard of Trauma care
What is Trauma informed care?
Is it four of us and we are responsible for producing and circulating cerebral spinal fluid
What are ventricles?
I am a trauma liaison when a patient is decompensating or woke up dead
What is the Trauma designee?
If you don’t stop me you are wasting your time
What is bleeding?
I was once called The Bloody Vicious Cycle
What is The Trauma Diamond of Death
Make sure you do these two things when a patient is admitted to the hospital and when they are discharged
What is a warm welcome and a fond farewell?
This needs to remain between 60 mm/Hg - 100 mm/Hg in order to prevent a secondary injury
What is cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP)?
Number one cause of preventable death in a Trauma patient
What is bleeding?
Penetrating, Blunt, Burn, and Blast
What are mechanisms of injury in Trauma?
I am unbound and ready to be utilized where I am needed
What is Ionized calcium Ca2+?
Patients may review these before making a decision on which hospital they would like to have an elective surgery
What are HCAHPS scores?
MAP - ICP =
CPP
I was created to help trauma nurses perform a thorough assessment
What is the Trauma Nursing Process?
If I have this type of injury don’t put anything in my nose
I provide information to allow for goal directed resuscitation
What is a thromboelastogram?
The more you have of me the more likely you are to have chronic diseases, depression, lower level of education, etc.
What Adverse Childhood Events (ACES)?
I exit the cranial vault if I don’t have enough room by a mechanism called
What is herniation?
I am separated into two parts and is a standard in Trauma care
What is the Primary survey and Secondary?
Brief moment of change of level of consciousness followed by a period of lucidity
What is an epidural bleed?
I have four components to me that increases mortality rates
What is the Trauma Diamond of Death?
This helps detect changes in patient status and needs vital signs to calculate
What is the MEWS score?
My syndrome starts with a C, name three components that represent me
Cushing‘s Triad: hypertension, bradycardia, and irregular respirations
HIJ stand for
What is the Secondary survey?
Head to toe assessment, inspect, and just keep evaluating
Throboelastography measures
What are time to form a clot, clot strength, and clot lysis
Trauma Diamond of Death consists of the following
hypothermia, coagulopathy, hypocalcemia, and acidosis