Trauma Management Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Penetrating Trauma | Injury caused by an object breaking the skin and entering the body |
Blunt Trauma | Injury caused by the collision of an object with the body in which the object does not enter the body. |
Injury prevention agenda for the future. Authorized by Federal Trauma Care Systems Planning & Development Act of 1990. | Injury Prevention Prehospital Care Emergency Department Care Interfacility Transport Definitive Care Trauma Critical Care Rehabilitation Data Collection, Trauma Registry |
Index of Suspicion | Anticipation of injury to a body region, organ, or structure based on MOI Shock and head injury Frequent reassessment and trending |
Newtons first law of motion | A body at rest or in motion will stay in that state until acted on by an outside force |
Conservation of energy | Energy cannot be created or destroyed Can only change form |
Kinetic energy | 1/2 mass x x velocity (squared) Velocity has more influence than mass |
5 P's of compartment syndrome | Pain that is out of proportion to the injury Pulselessness Pallor from circulation Paraesthesia Paralysis |
Evaluation of a fall | Determine the point of impact The fall height Impact surface Transmission pathway forces across the skeleton |
Vasopressors | Dopamine- Dobutamine- Epinephrine- Norepinephrine- |
Norepinephrine- | typically make a 4 Ug/cc mix (1 mg into 250cc),dose/titrate per protocol (~2- Ug/min) |
Dopamine | -typically make a 1600 Ug/cc mix (400mg into 250cc) -> titrate to effect 2-20 Ug/kg/min |
Epinephrine | - 1 mg in 250 mL D5W or NS (4 mcg/mL), dose/titrate per protocol (~1-4 Ug/min) |
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