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Air bubbles in the arterial blood vessels.
What is arterial air embolism?
Resistance that slows a projectile, such as air.
What is drag?
Trauma that affects more than one body system.
What is multi- system trauma?
A scoring system used for patients with head injuries.
What is revised trauma score?
The measure of force over distance.
What is work?
An impact on the body by objects that cause injury without penetrating soft tissues or internal organs and cavities.
What is blunt trauma?
An evaluation tool used to determine level of consciousness, which evaluates and assigns point values for eye opening, verbal response, and motor response which are then totaled; effective in predicting patient outcomes.
What is Glascow Coma Scale?
Injury caused by objects, such as knives and bullets, that pierce the surface of the body and damage internal tissues and organs.
What is penetrating trauma?
The path a projectile takes once it is propelled.
What is trajectory?
The second leading cause of trauma death in the US.
What is penetrating trauma?
A phenomenon in which speed causes a bullet to generate pressure waves, which cause damage distant from the bullet path.
What is cavitation?
Awareness that unseen life-threatening injuries may exist when determining the MOI.
What is index of suspicion?
The product of mass, gravity, and height, which is converted into kinetic energy and results in injury, such as from a fall.
What is potential energy?
Emergencies that are the result of physical forces applied to a patient's body.
What are trauma emergencies?
Deformity, contusion, abrasion, puncture/ penetrating injury, burns, tenderness, laceration, and swelling.
What is DCAP-BTLS?
A brain injury that occurs when force is applied to the head through brain tissue causes injury on the opposite side of original impact; coup injury occurs at this point of impact; contrecroup injury occurs on the opposite side of impact, as the brain rebounds.
What are coup-contrecoup brain injuries?
The energy of a moving object.
What is kinetic energy?
An object propelled by force, such as a bullet by a weapon.
What is projectile?
A score calculated from 1-16 with 16 being the best possible score. It relates to the likelihood of patient survival with the exception of a severe head injury. It takes in account the GCS score, respiratory rate, respiratory expansion, systolic blood pressure, and capillary refill.
What is trauma score?
Leading cause of trauma deaths in the US.
What is blunt trauma?
The slowing of an object.
What is deceleration?
Emergencies that require EMS attention because of illnesses or conditions not caused by an outside force.
What are medical emergencies?
Pulmonary trauma resulting from short-range exposure to the detonation of high- energy explosives.
What are pulmonary blast injuries?
The eardrum; a thin, semitransparent membrane in the middle ear that transmits sound vibrations to the internal ear by means of auditory ossicles.
What is tympanic membrane?
Damage to the body results from being struck by flying debris after a blast.
What are secondary blast injuries?