NSG 213 ADULT & PEDS EMERGENCIES
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
requires immediate attention
emergency care
- trauma centers
- designations (Level I-V)
- Ongoing continuing education
emergency/trauma care centers/teams
what is the leading cause of death for 1-44 y/o?
injury and violence
in terms of priorities of prehospital care such as EMS care before the hospital,
what does ABCDE stand for?
airway, breathing, circulation, disability, exopsure/environment
Identify injuries
Initiate definitive treatment
,Multidisciplinary team with predefined roles
hospital care
Sorting of patients based on their need for treatment and resources available (use
Emergency Severity Index, ESI)
triage
what is the name of the triage that EMS workers do before arriving to the hospital
on the pt?
field triage
how many levels are there for triage in the ED?
5
- immediate life threatening level
- triage level in ED
level 1
full arrest, code, agonal breathing
level 1
,emergency; could become life threatening
level 2
stroke, AMI, rhythm change that they are not compensating for (something
impending happening that can become life threatening - bleed, but alert and
oriented currently)
level 2
urgent; not life threatening
level 3
- BP is off, as long as not super hypotensive
- fever, cough, abdominal pain
- compensating
- sepsis, potentially heart failure (as long as BP/pulse are okay and this is
expected)
level 3
semi urgent, not life threatening
, level 4
only needing 1 resource, laceration needing suture, broken bone needing xray and
splinting
level 4
non urgent, needs treatment when time permits
level 5
need no resources, dental pain/homeless looking for resources
level 5
what are the 3 things that make up the primary survey in the ED?
identify life threatening conditions/institution, ABCDE, GCS
in terms of scoring the GCS or glasgow coma scale what are the ranges of scores?
3/worst-15/best
what does the mnemonic AVPU stand for in terms of primary survey?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
requires immediate attention
emergency care
- trauma centers
- designations (Level I-V)
- Ongoing continuing education
emergency/trauma care centers/teams
what is the leading cause of death for 1-44 y/o?
injury and violence
in terms of priorities of prehospital care such as EMS care before the hospital,
what does ABCDE stand for?
airway, breathing, circulation, disability, exopsure/environment
Identify injuries
Initiate definitive treatment
,Multidisciplinary team with predefined roles
hospital care
Sorting of patients based on their need for treatment and resources available (use
Emergency Severity Index, ESI)
triage
what is the name of the triage that EMS workers do before arriving to the hospital
on the pt?
field triage
how many levels are there for triage in the ED?
5
- immediate life threatening level
- triage level in ED
level 1
full arrest, code, agonal breathing
level 1
,emergency; could become life threatening
level 2
stroke, AMI, rhythm change that they are not compensating for (something
impending happening that can become life threatening - bleed, but alert and
oriented currently)
level 2
urgent; not life threatening
level 3
- BP is off, as long as not super hypotensive
- fever, cough, abdominal pain
- compensating
- sepsis, potentially heart failure (as long as BP/pulse are okay and this is
expected)
level 3
semi urgent, not life threatening
, level 4
only needing 1 resource, laceration needing suture, broken bone needing xray and
splinting
level 4
non urgent, needs treatment when time permits
level 5
need no resources, dental pain/homeless looking for resources
level 5
what are the 3 things that make up the primary survey in the ED?
identify life threatening conditions/institution, ABCDE, GCS
in terms of scoring the GCS or glasgow coma scale what are the ranges of scores?
3/worst-15/best
what does the mnemonic AVPU stand for in terms of primary survey?
