Emt Terms In Chapter 22: Trauma Overview

Front 1

arterial air embolism

Back 1

Air bubbles in the arterial blood vessels.

Front 2

blunt trauma

Back 2

An impact on the body by objects that cause injury without penetrating soft tissues or internal organs and cavities.

Front 3

cavitation

Back 3

A phenomenon in which speed causes a bullet to generate pressure waves, which cause damage distant from the bullet's path.

Front 4

coup-contrecoup injury

Back 4

Dual impacting of the brain into the skull; coup injury occurs at the point of impact; contrecoup injury occurs on the opposite side of impact, as the brain rebounds.

Front 5

deceleration

Back 5

The slowing of an object.

Front 6

Resistance that slows a projectile, such as air.

Back 6

drag

Front 7

An evaluation tool used to determine level of consciousness, which evaluates and assigns point values (scores) for eye opening, verbal response, and motor response, which are then totaled; effective in helping predict patient outcomes.

Back 7

Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score

Front 8

Awareness that unseen life-threatening injuries may exist when determining the mechanism of injury.

Back 8

index of suspicion

Front 9

The energy of a moving object.

Back 9

kinetic energy

Front 10

The way in which traumatic injuries occur; the forces that act on the body to cause damage.

Back 10

mechanism of injury (MOI)

Front 11

Emergencies that require EMS attention because of illnesses or conditions not caused by an outside force.

Back 11

medical emergencies

Front 12

Trauma that affects more than one body system.

Back 12

multisystem trauma

Front 13

Injury caused by objects, such as knives and bullets, that pierce the surface of the body and damage internal tissues and organs.

Back 13

penetrating trauma

Front 14

The product of mass, gravity, and height, which is converted into kinetic energy and results in injury, such as from a fall.

Back 14

potential energy

Front 15

Any object propelled by force, such as a bullet by a weapon.

Back 15

projectile

Front 16

Pulmonary trauma resulting from short-range exposure to the detonation of explosives.

Back 16

pulmonary blast injuries

Front 17

A scoring system used for patients with head trauma.

Back 17

Revised Trauma Score (RTS)

Front 18

The path a projectile takes once it is propelled.

Back 18

trajectory

Front 19

Emergencies that are the result of physical forces applied to a patient's body.

Back 19

trauma emergencies

Front 20

A score that relates to the likelihood of patient survival with the exception of a severe head injury. It calculates a number from 1 to 16, with 16 being the best possible score. It takes into account the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score, respiratory rate, respiratory expansion, systolic blood pressure, and capillary refill.

Back 20

trauma score

Front 21

The eardrum; a thin, semitransparent membrane in the middle ear that transmits sound vibrations to the internal ear by means of auditory ossicles.

Back 21

tympanic membrane

Front 22

The product of force times distance.

Back 22

work