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Trauma Emergencies |
Occur as a result of physical forces applied to the body |
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Medical Emergencies |
Occur when the patient has an illness or condition that is not caused by an outside force |
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Index of Suspicion |
Is your awareness and concern for potentially serious underlying and unseen injuries. |
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Traumatic injuries |
Occurs when the body's tissues are exposed to energy levels beyond their tolerance |
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Mechanism of injury |
Is the way in which traumatic injuries occur. It describes the forces (or energy transmission) acting on the body that cause injury. Three concepts of energy are typically associated with injury including thermal energy which causes burns, potential energy, kinetic energy, and work. Energy in the human body can only be converted or transformed. |
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Newtons First Law & Second Law |
First Law states that objects at rest tend to stay at rest and objects in motion tend to stay in motion inless acted on by some force. Second Law states that force equals mass x acceleration in which acceleration is the change in velocity speed that occurs over time. |
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KED Kendrick Extrication Device Only for concious patients with back and neck pain not for trauma patients. |
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