Advances in Trauma Care
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1. Trauma: Injuries that pose a significant threat to life
2. Emergency Medical Services (EMS): Evolved in the 1960s to rapidly identify and transport trauma
patients
3. Trauma Center: Facility for definitive care of trauma patients
4. Trauma Assessment: Evaluation to determine if trauma patients have serious injuries
5. Critical Care Transport Professional (CCTP): Professional who cares for trauma patients en route
6. Morbidity: Nonfatal injury and disability caused by trauma
7. Mortality: Deaths caused by injury and disease
8. Prehospital Care: Care provided before reaching a medical facility
9. Patient Outcomes: Results of trauma care, improved by rapid identification and transport
10. Leading Cause of Death: Trauma is the leading cause of death in persons younger than 45 years
11. Preventable Trauma Deaths: Many trauma deaths occur in the prehospital environment
12. Education: Renewed emphasis on education to improve prehospital care
13. Scene Safety: Priority for prehospital care providers at the scene of a trauma incident
14. Motion Restriction/Stabilization: Priority for prehospital care providers at the scene of a trauma
incident
15. Transport: Priority for prehospital care providers at the scene of a trauma incident
16. Scene Call: Encounter trauma patients in austere conditions as a CCTP
17. Interfacility Transport: Transfer critical patients from smaller facilities to trauma centers
18. Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI): Care provided by CCTP outside the scope of standard field
responders
19. Rotor-Wing Aircraft: Transport method for speedy transport of trauma patients
20. Review Laboratory Results: Ability of CCTP to review assessment findings prior to transport
21. Transferring Physician: Assistance enlisted by CCTP in transferring critical patients
22. Stabilization Efforts: Efforts made by CCTP to stabilize patients prior to transport
23. Difficult Airways: Securing airways as part of stabilization efforts by CCTP
24. Chest Tubes: Inserting chest tubes as part of stabilization efforts by CCTP
25. Hanging Blood: Administering blood transfusions as part of stabilization efforts by CCTP
26. Treatment Before Transport: Determining treatment needed before transporting unstable patients
27. Unstable Patient: Patient requiring immediate transport for definitive care
28. Morbidity and Mortality Rates: Focus of trauma systems to decrease disability and death
29. Disability: Nonfatal injury caused by trauma
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Study online at https://quizlet.com/_hscdbk
1. Trauma: Injuries that pose a significant threat to life
2. Emergency Medical Services (EMS): Evolved in the 1960s to rapidly identify and transport trauma
patients
3. Trauma Center: Facility for definitive care of trauma patients
4. Trauma Assessment: Evaluation to determine if trauma patients have serious injuries
5. Critical Care Transport Professional (CCTP): Professional who cares for trauma patients en route
6. Morbidity: Nonfatal injury and disability caused by trauma
7. Mortality: Deaths caused by injury and disease
8. Prehospital Care: Care provided before reaching a medical facility
9. Patient Outcomes: Results of trauma care, improved by rapid identification and transport
10. Leading Cause of Death: Trauma is the leading cause of death in persons younger than 45 years
11. Preventable Trauma Deaths: Many trauma deaths occur in the prehospital environment
12. Education: Renewed emphasis on education to improve prehospital care
13. Scene Safety: Priority for prehospital care providers at the scene of a trauma incident
14. Motion Restriction/Stabilization: Priority for prehospital care providers at the scene of a trauma
incident
15. Transport: Priority for prehospital care providers at the scene of a trauma incident
16. Scene Call: Encounter trauma patients in austere conditions as a CCTP
17. Interfacility Transport: Transfer critical patients from smaller facilities to trauma centers
18. Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI): Care provided by CCTP outside the scope of standard field
responders
19. Rotor-Wing Aircraft: Transport method for speedy transport of trauma patients
20. Review Laboratory Results: Ability of CCTP to review assessment findings prior to transport
21. Transferring Physician: Assistance enlisted by CCTP in transferring critical patients
22. Stabilization Efforts: Efforts made by CCTP to stabilize patients prior to transport
23. Difficult Airways: Securing airways as part of stabilization efforts by CCTP
24. Chest Tubes: Inserting chest tubes as part of stabilization efforts by CCTP
25. Hanging Blood: Administering blood transfusions as part of stabilization efforts by CCTP
26. Treatment Before Transport: Determining treatment needed before transporting unstable patients
27. Unstable Patient: Patient requiring immediate transport for definitive care
28. Morbidity and Mortality Rates: Focus of trauma systems to decrease disability and death
29. Disability: Nonfatal injury caused by trauma
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