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19 Cards in this Set
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Index of suspicion |
Awarness and concern for potentially serious underlying and unseen injuries |
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MOI |
Describes the forces acting on the body that cause injury |
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three concepts of energy |
Potential energy, kinetic energy, work |
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Nonsignificant injury |
Injury to isolated body part, a fall without loss of conc |
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significant injury |
multisystem trauma, fall from height, MVA/Motorcycle, Car v Ped, Gunshot, stabbing |
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Blunt Trauma |
results from a a force acting on the body without penetrating soft tissue, MVA/Falls, skin discoloration, pain, hidden injuries |
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penetrating trauma |
results from an object penetrating the surface of the body |
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three impacts of vehicular collision |
car hits object, passenger hits interior of car, internal organs hit wall of body |
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frontal MVA collision |
seat belts and airbags help, extremities still hurt in second collision, and organs in thrid, seat belts can cause injury as well. |
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Rear END collision |
result in whiplash |
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Lateral collision |
side impact, t bone |
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Rollover crash |
Most common life threat is ejection, or parital ejection |
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rotational collision |
similar to rollover, vehicle can hit thirs object like poles |
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Car vs ped |
injuries are often graphic and apparent, can have unseen injuries, find: vehicle speed, patient thrown, pulled under, evaluate vehicle that struck patient for damage |
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Car vs bike |
same as car v ped but check bike damage and helmetm presume spinal injury |
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Car v Motorcycle |
check motorcycle, side of most damage, skid, deforrmity extent and location of helmet, head on usually results in bike stopping but rider continuing, angular lower extremity injuries, ejection, controlled crash technique used to separate the rider from body of motorcycle |
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falls |
height, surface, part of body that hits first, 15 feet or 3x patient height is significant, internal injury, fall on feet causes less internal injury more extremity injury |
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Cavitation |
temporary is caused by acceleration, permanent is caused by bullet path
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Golden principle of pre hosp care |
safety, id and manage life threats, ABC's, shock therapy, back board, transport to appropriate facility, definitive care requires surgical intervention, on scene less than ten minutes. consider als intercept. |
