Name the three sections of the Glasgow Coma Scale.
Eye Opening, Verbal Response, & Motor Response
100
When treating a hypothermic patient, you should avoid rough handling, which can trigger what?
Arrhythmias
100
Using information you gather during your consideration of the mechanism of injury to create a mental summation for anticipated injuries is known as what?
Index of Suspicion
100
When using the rule of 9’s to determine the percentage of body surface area burned in an infant, each one of the infant’s legs accounts for how much percent?
13.5%
200
_____ injuries produce tissue damage away from the impact point as the brain, floating in cerebral spinal fluid inside the cranium, “sloshes” toward the impact, then away from it, again impacting the cranial interior.
Contrecoup
200
A complex cardiovascular reflex, resulting from submersion of the face & nose in water, that constricts blood flow everywhere except for the brain is known as what?
Mammalian Diving Reflex
200
The most common life-threatening trauma associated with explosions is what injury?
Lung Injury
200
A _____ occurs when muscle fibers are overstretched by forces that exceed the fiber’s strength.
Strain
300
In the central syndrome, upper brainstem compression produces an increase in blood pressure to maintain cerebral perfusion pressure. This is known as what?
Cushing's Reflex
300
Males account for _____% of drowning victims.
85%
300
Hemorrhage associated with projectile damage is often severe in these types of organs.
Solid Organs
300
Penetrating traumas frequently lead to _____, which may be bilateral, depending on the missile or knife track.
Pneumothorax
400
Describe the characteristics of Cheyne-Stokes respirations.
Increase in respiratory volumes, then a decrease in respiratory volumes, followed by a period of apnea
400
_____ is a true environmental emergency that occurs when the body’s hypothalamic temperature regulation is lost, causing uncompensated hyperthermia. This in turn causes cell death & damage to the brain, liver, and kidneys.
Heat Stroke
400
This type of shock begins as compensatory mechanisms become unable to respond to continuing blood loss.
Decompensated Shock
400
A _____ occurs when a penetrating abdominal injury results in abdominal contents to protrude through the opening.
Evisceration
500
_____ is usually caused by a penetrating injury that affects one side of the spinal cord (hemitransection). The damage to the one side results in sensory & motor loss to the same side of the body.
Brown-Sequard Syndrome
500
This law states that the volume of gas is inversely proportional to its pressure if the temperature is kept constant. In other words, as you increase pressure, the gas is compressed into a smaller space.
Boyle's Law
500
_____ are blunt, nonpenetrating injuries that crush and damage small blood vessels.
Contusions
500
Trauma to the head (brain) most frequently results from what?