Er Nursing, Your Ticket to Success: Verified Instructor Notes Included

INJURY TO RIBS OR CHEST OR SHOCK DEEP BREATHS HYPOXIA, HYPOGLYCEMIA EXPIRATORY STRIDOR TRACHEAL BRONCHIAL OBSTRUCTION (UPPER AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION) INSPIRATORY STRIDOR LARYNGEAL OBSTRUCTION FROTHY BLOOD TINGED SPUTUM: LUNG INJURY, PULMONARY EDEMA, PULMONARY EMBOLUS! CIRCULATION PUT A HEPLOCK IN EARLY SIGNS OF SHOCK MOOD CHANGE, RESTLESSNESS, DIFFICULTY FOCUSING IMPORTANT WHEN YOU FIND A PATIENT KEEP THEM IN THAT POSITION UNLESS THEY NEED CPR PREVENTATIVE MEASURES DON'T GIVE ORAL FLUIDS IF ABDOMINAL INJURY AND THEY MAY NEED ANESTHESIA CHEST INJURY COULD MEAN HEMOTHORAX OR PNEUMOTHORAX CRUSHING PELVIS INJURY EXPECT BLADDER RUPTURE HEAD INJURIES EXPECT INCREASED ICP SIGNS OF HYPOGLYCEMIA # Confusion # Dizziness # Feeling shaky AND COLD!!!! # Hunger # Headaches # Irritability # Pounding heart; racing pulse!!!!!!!!!!! # Pale skin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! # Sweating DISASTER TRIAGE 0 black dead DISASTER TRIAGE 1 red: critically life threatening ill...hemorrhage cardiac arrest abdominal injury SPLEEN LACERATION OR LIVER LACERATION DISASTER TRIAGE 2 YELLOW VICTIMS CAN WAIT TRANSPORTATION...THOSE WITH IMMBOLIZED FRACTURES