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How does the EMT-B handle neck lacerations
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Cover with gloved hand
Apply an occlusive dressing sealed on four side |
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How can you recognize a flailed chest
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Paradoxical motion and decreased lung sounds
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How do you treat a patient with a flailed chest segment
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Stabilize with your hand
Apply a bulky dressing large enough to cover area Use wide tape from good chest over flailed segment to good chest Roll patient onto flailed segment when log rolling Position spider straps across flailed segment to help stabilize |
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What should be done during the ongoing assessment for a patient with a flailed chest
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Check patient lung sounds and breathing
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How can you identify a patient with a sucking chest wound
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An open wound bubbling with each breath
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How do you treat a patient with a sucking chest wound
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Place gloved hand over wound as soon as its found
Cover with an occlusive dressing sealed on three sides Log roll patient onto sucking chest wound Check for exit wound If lung sounds or chest rise decrease dressing may need to be burped |
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How would you log roll patients with the following types of wounds?
Evisceration Sucking chest wound Flailed chest |
Evisceration - Away from wound
Sucking chest - Onto wound Flailed chest - Onto wound |
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If your patient has been shot in the back with an exit wound in the chest How would you dress the wounds
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An occlusive dressing on both wounds taped on all four side on the back and on three side on the chest.
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How would you treat a patient with an evisceration
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Cover the wound and the guts with a bulky moist sterile dressing covered with and occlusive dressing sealed on all four sides
Roll the patient away from the wound when log rolling Keep the patient warm |
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How do you identify a patient with shock
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Low blood pressure
Increased pulse rate Increased respiration PCM skin |
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How do you treat a patient for shock
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Raise their feet higher than their head or in Trendelenburg position and keep them warm
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How do you treat a patient with a head injury and suspected increased cranial pressure (ICP)
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Raise the head of the backboard
Keep the patient warm |
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How do you treat a patient with minor bleeding like lacerations and road rash
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Use appropriate size dressing to cover wound
Secure appropriately |
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How do you treat a patient with moderate to major bleeding
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Use appropriate size dressing
Use roller gauze to help hold pressure Apply additional dressing if soaked through |
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How do you treat a patient with gunshot wounds to extremities
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Cover open wounds
Check for other openings like exit wounds Splint extremity checking PMS before and after |
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What should be checked during the ongoing assessment for a patient with splinted wounds
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Check PMS regularly
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How do we treat a patient with burn injuries
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Use dry sterile dressings
Splint extremities with open electrical burns Keep patient warm Do not tape onto burned skin Do not place spider straps over exposed burned skin. |
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How do you splint and injury to a bone
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Immobilize the joint above and below the broken bone
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How do you splint an injury to a joint
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Immobilize the bone above and below the joint
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How is the ankle immobilized when splinting
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By use of an ankle hitch
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When immobilizing the wrist what needs to be done to the hand
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It needs to be immobilized as well in a position of function
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When do you splint the wounds of a load and go patient
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In the ambulance
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When do you splint the wounds of a stay and play patient
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Before you get in the ambulance
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What should you ask any patient who is the victim of a fall and why
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Did they loose consciousness.
Because if they did or do not know if they did they are a load and go patient |
