Burns
This layer of the skin is primarily affected in first-degree burns?
What is the epidermis?
In your Trauma assessment skill sheet, after you perform your scene size-up, what is the next step to perform?
Delegates and directs spinal precautions.
A fracture where the bone breaks but does not pierce the skin, potentially leading to deformity and loss of function.
What is a closed fracture?
You are treating a patient with pneumothorax suspected from blunt trauma to the chest. The patient has hypotension, tracheal deviation, and absent breath sounds on one side. What is your primary intervention?
Needle decompression
Shearing forces separate the skin from the underlying tissues
Degloving injury
This is the recommended solution for fluid resuscitation during the first 24 hours after a burn injury.
What is Lactated Ringer's solution?
What are you looking for in Disability?
LOC and Pupils
his life-threatening condition occurs when a large section of the chest wall is fractured in multiple places, often leading to lung collapse.
What is flail chest?
A 45-year-old male presents after being struck by a car. He is pale, tachycardic, and hypotensive. His extremities are cold, and he has blood loss from a laceration on his thigh. What type of shock are you likely dealing with?
Hypovolemic Sgock
Injuries occur when people are propelled through space by an explosion or blast wind, striking stationary objects. Injuries similar to those from vertical falls. What kind of injury?
Tertiary blast injuries
This is a surgical procedure sometimes required for deep burns, where necrotic tissue is removed to promote healing.
What is debridement?
What are all the thing to look for when examining the head during your secondary survey?
Racoon eyes, Battle signs, Le Fort Fracture, Oral Trauma, CSF, Present in blood (halo test)
Le Fort 2 fracture involves?
nasal bones and medial orbits.
A 32-week pregnant female is involved in a high-speed MVC. She has abdominal bruising, hypotension, and uterine tenderness. What is the suspected diagnosis
Placenta abruptio
pre-event, event, post event.
Pediatric fluid resuscitation is indicated in children who have?
10% to 20% TBSA
What is NSAID and what does it help you determine?
Neurological deficits, Spinal tenderness, Altered mental status, Intoxication, Distracting injury, and it evaluates the need for C-spine.
Pain, Pallor, Paresthesia, Pulseness, Paralysis, and Poikilothermia are signs of what?
Compartment syndrome
You respond to a construction site where a 28-year-old male has been pinned under a collapsed concrete wall for approximately 45 minutes. Fire crews extricated him just before your arrival. He is alert but pale and diaphoretic. His legs show deformity, ecchymosis, and decreased capillary refill. Vitals: HR 124, BP 90/56, RR 28, SpO₂ 92%. As you prepare for transport, his ECG shows peaked T waves.
What is the most likely underlying trauma type?
Crush Injury
what is open vault fracture
opening between scalp laceration and brain tissue
This is the condition in which a burn patient suffers from renal failure, often due to myoglobin released during a crush injury or electrical burn.
What is rhabdomyolysis?
What should the ongoing assessment contain?
LOC, Bleeding control measures, Airway compliance, physical exam, and appropriate treatment evaluation.
What is barotitis?
Inflammation and injury to middle ear due to barometric pressure.
You respond to a 911 call for a 4-year-old child who fell from a second-story window, approximately 9 feet onto concrete. Upon arrival, the child is lying supine, crying. He has bruising to the right side of his head.
Vitals: HR 168, RR 40, BP 84/44, SpO₂ 94% RA, GCS 11 (E3, V3, M5)
Is this red or yellow criteria?
Yellow
What are the 3 zones of the Jackson thermal theory? Which one is the most critical zone?
zone of coagulation, zone of stasis, zone of hyperemia
zone of coagulation