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15 Cards in this Set
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What are the two major causes of chest trauma?
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Blunt and Penetration
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How do we consider chest injuries?
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Do not consider chest injuries minor until proved otherwise!
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What do we do if someone presents with a chest injury?
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immediate assessment and treatment
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What is a pneumothorax?
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air in the pleural space
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What are the 4 types of pneumothoraxes that you can get?
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Closed , Open, Tension, Hemothorax
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Explain a closed pneumothorax.
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air enters from an inner tear or puncture, can cause a complete or partial colapse of the lung, most common cause is a blunt injury.
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What are the signs and symptoms of a closed pneumothorax?
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sudden sharp pain on inspiration and with movement, dyspnea, restlessness, anxiet, increased Heart rate, decreased breathsounds and movement, no fremitus
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What is an open pneumothorax?
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air enters and exits from a hole in the chset wall, ( SUCKING chest wound), penetrating chest wound or surgery
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What are the signs and symptoms or a open pneumothorax?
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symptoms or a open pneumothorax? Same as a closed & air sucked in and out, mediastinal flutter with resperations, blood may bubble out of wound with experation
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What is the treatment of an open pneumothorax?
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COVER STAT, monitor for tension pneumothorax
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What is a tension pneumothorax?
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air can escape , causes preasure that leads to a mediastinal shift.( this compresses the heart, vessels and other lung)
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what are the signs and symptoms of a tension pneumothorax?
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PROFOUND DISTRESS, severe dyspnea, CO falls causesblood pressure to drop/ SHOCK, decreased heart sounds, decreased or absent lung sounds, and crepitus
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What are the late signs of a tension pneumothorax?
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JVD, Tracheal deviation, cyanosis
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what do you do for tension pneumothorax?
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release pressure stat! Needle and /or chest tube, O2
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A tension pneumothorax can be prevented , HOW?
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Dont clamp chest tube, watch for kinks, and clots
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