Dem Bones
The term for bone ends or chips grinding against one another at an injury site.
What is crepitus?
What is the first golden principle of multisystem trauma care?
What is to ensure safety of responders and the patient?
Bonus: What is the second one?
This describes the source of slowly oozing, dark red blood.
What is capillary bleeding?
Most common prehospital complication of burns?
What is hypothermia?
Bonus: Most common complication once in the hospital or after?
Most common cause of spinal injury.
What are MVCs?
Bonus: What is the second most common?
Absolute contraindications of traction splinting.
The name of a pattern of cracks in the windshield when struck by a patient's head.
What is a starburst pattern?
Initial management for an open wound spurting bright red blood.
Bonus: Is this likely to be effective? If not, what is the better option?
Approximate BSA involved in an adult patient with burns to the anterior trunk, the genitalia, and circumferentially around the right leg.
What is 37%?
Bonus: Is this a different BSA than the same injuries would indicate for a child?
Abdominal organs that are more anteriorly positioned in pediatric patients.
What are the liver and spleen?
Bonus: What is the primary concern this creates with blunt force injuries to the abdomen?
Most common fractures in elderly patients due to falls.
What are hip and femur fractures?
Pediatric patients are more prone to whiplash and head injuries for this reason.
What is a proportionately larger/heavier head and weak neck muscles?
Bonus: What other traumatic injuries are children more prone to due to anatomical differences?
Appropriate positioning for a patient with an abdominal evisceration if no spinal concerns are present?
What is supine or lateral with hips and knees flexed?
Bonus: Why is this the preferred position of comfort for abdominal patients?
Most appropriate airway intervention/adjunct for patients with burns to the face or throat.
What is an endotracheal tube placed by ALS?
Bonus: What is a BLS option that may/may not be effective?
Type of spinal injury most commonly caused by hanging.
Bonus: What is the cause of death from hanging if you do not have a distraction injury?
Most common injury type for an individual who fell onto a firm surface/edge, impacting the chest first?
What is flail segment?
Bonus: What is the primary management concern?
Most likely injury due to a patient in a rear-end collision that struck the steering wheel at a high rate of speed.
What is cardiac contusion?
What is peritonitis?
Types of toxic gas inhalation often comorbid with inhalation burns.
What is cyanide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and hydrogen chloride.
Bonus: Why are these specific gases the most common?
Layers of the meninges from superficial to deep.
What are the dura mater, arachnoid mater, and pia mater?
Bonus: Which is the most rigid/protective of the three?
Injury type indicated by a swollen, painful extremity with loss of strength and sensation distal.
Bonus: What is the MOI that most often results in this injury type?
The most important factor related to the impact and injuries expected in a patient struck by a vehicle.
What is the speed of the vehicle at impact?
Reason why an occlusive dressing on the neck is sealed on 4 sides but is only sealed on 3 sides when placed on the chest.
What is to prevent air from entering the circulatory system?
Bonus: What vessel is usually lacerated in the neck resulting in air emboli entering circulation?
Common cause of kidney failure following an electrical burn.
Bonus: What would be the most easily identifiable sign of this?
Most indicative symptoms of increasing intracranial pressure (ICP)?
What is hypertension and bradycardia?
Bonus: What is usually the cause of death in patients with ICP? (Alt: What does ICP usually cause within the body?)