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EMT-13 Patient Asses
Study Guide
Question | Answer |
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Flexion posturing | Patient arches the back and flexes the arms inward toward the chest. -Sign of serious head injury -aka decorticate posturing |
Aspiration | Breathing a substance into the lungs |
Flail segment | 2 or more adjacent ribs that are fractured in 2 or more places |
Chief complaint | "Why did you call the ambulance" |
Battle Sign | Black and blue discoloration to the mastoid area behind the ear, late sign of skull or head injury |
Paradoxical motion | movement of a section of the chest in the opposite direction from the rest of the chest during respiration |
Modified secondary assessment | physical exam focused on a specific site. no serious mechanism of injury, responsive, good metal status, alert and oriented. |
Rapid secondary assessment | head to toe physical exam thats swiftly conducted on a trauma patient who has a significant mechanism of injury, altered mental status, not responsive |
Primary assessment | portion of the assessment conducted immediately following scene size up for the purpose of discovering immediately life threatening conditions |
Patent | open, not blocked |
Cerebrospinal fluid | Fluid that surrounds the cushions the brain and spinal cord |
AVPU | Alert, responds to Verbal stimulus, responds to Painful stimulus, Unresponsive (levels of responsiveness) |