FAST & Furious
This spelled out acronym allows operators to quickly and efficiently evaluate trauma patients without exposure to radiation
What is Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma?
This is the primary cause of preventable trauma mortality
What is hemorrhage?
What is the phrenic nerve?
The surgical technique for extensive medial mobilization of the right colon, cecum, and small bowel to expose the retroperitoneum collides violently, such as with an obstacle or vehicle.
What is Cattell-Braasch crash?
The ideal resuscitation product in traumatic hemorrhage combines 1.5–2 oz vodka with 3–4 oz tomato juice, 0.5 oz lemon juice, and seasonings, such as Worcestershire, hot sauce, horseradish and celery salt; served over ice.
What is whole blood-y Mary?
TXA given within this time period of injury has been shown to reduce the risk of death.
What is 3 hours?
Percent blood volume loss can be recalled for the four classes of hemorrhagic shock by using the "rules" of what popular sport?
What is tennis?
Anterolateral thoracotomy can be extended to a "clam-shell" thoracotomy by transecting the sternum with this eponymous tool
What is Lebsche knife?
The history mnemonic for ATLS is a limited quantity of something, intended to be similar to and represent a larger amount of that thing.
What is an AMPLE Sample?
The 1964 spy film and the third installment in the James Bond series describes the concept in surgery that digital compression is usually safer and more effective than utilizing an instrument
What is Goldfinger is mightier than the clamp?
While incising the pars flaccida to obtain supraceliac aortic control, you encounter brisk arterial bleeding from this anomalous vessel
What is an aberrant left hepatic artery?
This portion of the Glasgow Coma Scale has been found to be the most reflective of outcomes after traumatic brain injury
What is the motor score?
Paying homage to the father of thyroid surgery, the mobilization of the ascending colon to the midline, exposing the vena cava is less frequently referred to as this eponym
What is the superextended Kocher maneuver?
The largest of its genus Vulpes is bordered by the clavicles, xiphoid process and nipple line, and describes an anatomic area for potentially devastating penetrating injuries
What is the red fox box?
The savant-star of "Rain Man" describes the degradation of the paralytic, cisatricurium, often utilized in the critical care setting
What/Who is Dustin Hof(f)man(n) elimination?
A diagnostic peritoneal lavage is considered positive if there are greater than 100,000 RBC, 500 WBC, presence of food particles or bacteria OR elevations in these two lab values
What are bilirubin or amylase?
Perimortem or resuscitative cesarean section should be performed within this time period
What is 4 minutes?
The resuscitative thoracotomy was first formally described by these two surgeons over 50 years ago for penetrating cardiovascular trauma
Who are Denton Cooley and Michael E. DeBakey?
An unstable flexion-distraction injury of the spine, typically occurring at the thoracolumbar junction is often associated with small bowel injuries as well as the half-conscious state characterized by an absence of response to external stimuli.
What is a Chance trance?
A complex or inaccessible injury that poses a clear and immediate danger to your patient's life is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch
What is BIG TROUBLE in Paradise?
In 1976, this orthopedic surgeon survived a plane crash in rural Nebraska that killed his wife and seriously injured his children. He was struck by the inadequacy and disorganization of the trauma care they received at a small hospital, thus prompting the structured approach to trauma, which later became ATLS
Who is James K Styner?
Flank or buttock contusions can suggest significant bleeding, as does scrotal ecchymosis, referred to as this sign
What is Bryant sign?
What is the Aird maneuver?
A fully aquatic mammal performs identical repetition of an unsuccessful technical act, according to Hirschberg and Mattox
What is a whale flail?
Degloving injuries secondary to blunt trauma explain complex, technical, or specialized information in simple, everyday language that an average person can easily understand
What are Morel-Lavallée-man's terms?