All Bleeding Stops Eventually
A femur fracture can cause this much internal blood loss:
What is up to one liter?
Name the size in millemeters of most normal pupils:
What is 3mm?
A wound over a fractured bone is considered this:
What is an open fracture?
Name the word: Circulation of blood within an organ in adequate amounts to meet the body's metabolic needs.
What is perfusion?
Define hypovolemic shock.
What is a lack of blood volume causing hypoperfusion?
At what blood volume loss does a person's BP usually begin to drop significantly?
What is 30-40% or 1.5-2L?
Define flail chest.
What is 2+ ribs broken in 2+ places causing paradoxical chest wall movement?
Score the GCS of this patient: opens eyes to verbal cues, oriented to self and place only, follows directions to move limbs:
What is 13? GCS= E3+V4+M6
Score the GCS of the following patient: opens eyes to painful stimuli, makes moaning noises, pulls hand away when you pinch the nail bed:
What is the GCS of 9? E:2 V:2 M:5 =9
An open neck injury has high mortality risks associated with what three things:
What are Bleeding, Tracheal injury, and air embolism?
What are: to minimize soft tissue damage from the broken ends, minimize pain, decrease blood loss, prevent nerve and vessel injury?
Differentiate between a pneumothorax and a tension pneumothorax
What is a pneumothorax is some air in the chest cavity, whereas a tension pneumo will cause midline shift of the heart and lungs?
Name the two bones that compose the lower leg
What are the tibia and fibula?
Red flags for an airway burn include the following 3 signs:
What are:
1. singed nose hairs/facial hair
2. soot around mouth/nares
3. hoarse voice
Name the type of head bleed is associated with highest mortality rate:
What is Intracerebral or Intraparenchymal?
What two preventable events during patient care have a 40% increase in mortality in trauma patients:
What are hypoxia and hypovolemia?
Name the two solid organs in the abdomen that are most likely to result in exsanguination when severely damaged.
A patient who displays deceberate posturing is described as:
What is abnormal extension posturing?
Define evisceration and how to bandage it
What are intestines poking out from wound; clean, moist dressing covered with an occlusive dressing?
Define the trauma triad of death.
What is metabolic acidosis, hypothermia and coagulopathy?
Define MAP, how it is calculated, and at what number should we aim to maintain in all patients:
What is: Mean Arterial Pressure, MAP=DBP + (SBP-DBP)/3, above 65?
The phrenic nerve innervates the diaphragm, at what cervical vertebrae does it exit from the spinal column?
What is C3-C4-C5? (3-4-5 keep you alive)
Body Surface Area percentages of burns are measured only from these two types of burns:
What are partial thickness (2nd degree) and full-thickness (3rd degree) burns?
Describe the following wounds: 1: laceration 2: avulsion 3: puncture 4: abrasion 5: incision
What are: 1: jagged cut 2: flap 3: small hole 4: rough superficial wound 5: clean edged cut
Name 5 sign/s symptoms of a serious head injury:
What are: CSF and blood from nares or ears, LOC-conscious-LOC pattern, decorticate or deceberate posturing, widening pulse pressure, increasing bradycardia, abnormal breathing pattern