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14 Cards in this Set
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What does the primary survey of a trauma patient entail? |
airway breathing circulation disability |
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What does the airway need to be? |
OPEN |
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How do we assist with breathing? |
intubation CPR MBR bag supplemental O2 needle decompression mechanical ventilation |
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What are we assessing with circulation? |
peripheral pulses do we have IV access BP any areas of bleeding? fluid resuscitation/replacement |
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What are we assessing with disability? |
LOC
AVPU - alert, voice, pain, unresponsive PERRLA GCS - glascow coma scale RTS - revised trauma score |
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What does our secondary survey include? |
expose/exposure full set of vitals/5 intervention/family give comfort measure history & head to toe inspect posterior/imaging/immobilize |
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What does SAMPLE stand for? And what is this useful for? |
use this for a quick health history S - s/s A - allergies M - medication P - past medical history L - last meal E - events leading to illness or injury |
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What do we do for exposure? |
view all surfaces of the body get them naked avoid/treat hypothermia |
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What about the F's? |
full set of vitals
five intervention fluid resuscitation family |
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What interventions are we doing to Give comfort measures? |
medicate for pain fentanyl |
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What does the H stand for in the secondary survey? |
history head to toe assessment be systematic and focused |
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What does the I stand for? |
inspect posterior imaging immobilized the injury you don't see is the one that will kill your patient |
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What is the million dollar question in trauma? |
What was the method of injury MOI? |
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What are we looking for in the glascow scale? |
score 15 - normal 8 - intubate the patient 3 - patient is in a coma |
