Triage
This triage tool is commonly used in emergency departments to determine patient acuity.
What is the Emergency Severity Index (ESI)?
The letters ABCDEF stand for this trauma assessment process.
What is the Primary Survey?
The primary goal of airway management.
What is keeping the airway open?
These pulses should be checked first during circulation assessment.
Bonus: Where are they?
What are central pulses?
Carotid & femoral
This intervention cools patients after cardiac arrest to improve neurologic outcomes.
What is Targeted Temperature Management (TTM)?
These are the four questions nurses ask when determining an ESI level.
What are:
If uncontrolled external bleeding is present, this letter is added before ABC.
What is C for Catastrophic Hemorrhage?
This maneuver is preferred when a cervical spine injury is suspected.
What is the jaw thrust?
The two preferred crystalloid solutions for fluid resuscitation.
What are Normal Saline and Lactated Ringer's?
Falls are the leading cause of injury in this population.
Who are older adults?
A CT scan, IV fluids, and laboratory testing are all examples of this.
What are ESI resources?
The "D" in ABCDEF stands for this.
What is Disability?
Before intubation, trauma patients should be ventilated with this concentration of oxygen
What is 100% oxygen?
When IV access cannot be rapidly obtained, this access route may be used.
What is intraosseous (IO) access?
A core body temperature below this value defines hypothermia.
What is 95°F?
This procedure counts as two resources in the ESI system.
What is conscious sedation?
This survey includes a head-to-toe assessment and inspection of posterior surfaces.
What is the Secondary Survey?
The components of breathing that are assessed
What is rate, depth and symmetry?
Massive transfusion protocol is defined as administration of this many units of blood within 24 hours.
What is 10 units or more?
You should NEVER do this to frostbitten tissue.
What is rub it?
This is NOT considered an ESI resource: PO medications, phone call to PCP, or IV fluids.
What are PO medications (or phone call to PCP)?
During the secondary survey, this type of assessment is completed first.
What is a history and head-to-toe assessment?
Every critically injured patient should receive oxygen through this device initially.
What is a non-rebreather mask?
Recent studies showed this blood product had lower mortality than component therapy.
What is whole blood?
A hypothermic patient cannot be pronounced dead until warmed to at least this temperature.
What is 86°F?