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14 Cards in this Set
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________ is the number 4 killer in the U.S. today behind cardiovascular disease, stroke and cancer.
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Trauma
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Serious and life-threatening injury occurs in fewer than ___ percent of trauma pts.
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10%
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The best care you as a medic can offer is to? 5 things!
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C-spine.
secure the airway. adequate respirations. control any significant external hemorrhage. rapid transport to definitive trauma care. P762 |
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This act developed todays EMS system?
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Highway Safety Act of 1966
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This act helped establish guidelines, funding, and state-level leadership and support for the development of trauma systems.
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Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act of 1990.
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Certain medical facilities may be designated as specialty centers which include what?
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Neurocenters
Burn centers Pedi trauma centers Hand and limb replantation by microsurgery Hyperbaric oxygenation P764 |
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Guidelines to aid prehospital personnel in determining which trauma pts require urgent transportation to a trauma center.
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Trauma triage criteria
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_________ and ________ are the great killlers in trauma.
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Shock and Head injuries
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Consideration of the mechanism of injury begins durning the _______________?
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Scene size-up
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The ________________ should be reconsidered as the first step of the focused HX and PE for trauma pts.
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Mechanism of injury
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Primary and rapid secondary assessments, emergency stabilization, pt packaging, and initiation of transport should be done in how many minutes?
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10 min
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Trauma triage criteria is designed to ______________ the trauma pt.
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"over-triage"
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When applying trauma triage criteria, it is best to?
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Err on the side of the pt.
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A data retrival system for trauma pt information, used to evaluate and improve the trauma system.
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Trauma registry
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