Airway & Breathing Emergencies
A patient with chest trauma has absent breath sounds on one side and tracheal deviation.
What is a pneumothorax?
Bradycardia with hypotension is characteristic of this type of shock.
What is neurogenic shock?
This rule is used to estimate total body surface area burned.
What is the rule of nines?
This is the first priority for a patient with a suspected inhalation injury.
What is secure the airway?
This rapid neuroassessment scale is used to evaluate level of consiousness.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)?
In flail chest, this allows for effective breathing and prevents hypoventilation.
What is pain control?
Warm flushed skin, hypotension, and bounding pulses are early signs of this shock type.
What is septic shock?
This is the total amount of fluid a patient with 36% TBSA burns, weighing 70 kg, needs in the first 24 hours.
What is 10,080 mL?
This term is used to describe symptoms associated with cardiac tamponade, including hypotension, muffled heart sounds, and jugular vein distention.
What is Beck's Triad?
This breathing pattern is associated with brain injury and is described as rapid then slow respirations with periods of apnea.
What are Cheyne-Stokes respirations?
Circumferential burns to the chest are particularly dangerous because of this risk.
What is impaired breathing? (Limited chest expansion)
In trauma, this is the acronym that guides the primary assessment.
What is ABCDE? (Airway, breathing, circulation, disability, exposure)
This antidote, used for opioid overdoses, often needs to be infused because of its short half-life.
What is naloxone? (Narcan)
This is an emergency procedure that may be required for a patient who cannot oxygenate or ventilate, otherwise known as "emergency tracheostomy."
What is a cricothyroidotomy?
This term is used to describe a surgical procedure that relieves tight tissue pressure following a burn injury.
Esharotomy
This term refers to the first critical hour after injury that improves the outcome of trauma patients.
What is the golden hour?
Term for aggressive cooling measures used for post–cardiac arrest patients to protect the brain.
What is Therapeutic Hypothermia? (Targeted Temperature Management)