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CHAPTER 4
Kinematics
of Trauma
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
At the completion of this chapter, the reader will be able to do the following:
✓ Define energy in the context of production of injury.
✓ Describe the association between the laws of motion, energy, and the
kinematics of trauma.
✓ Describe the relationship of injury and energy exchange to speed.
✓ Discuss energy exchange and the production of cavitation.
✓ Given the description of a motor vehicle crash, use kinematics to predict
the likely injury pattern for an unrestrained occupant.
✓ Associate the principles of energy exchange with the pathophysiology of
injury to the head, spine, thorax, abdomen, and extremities resulting from
that exchange.
✓ Describe the specific injuries and their causes as related to interior and
exterior vehicle damage.
✓ Describe the function of restraint systems for vehicle occupants.
✓ Relate the laws of motion and energy to mechanisms other than
motor vehicle crashes (e.g. blasts, falls).
✓ Describe the five phases of blast injury and the injuries produced in each phase.
✓ Describe the differences in the production of injury with low-
, medium-, and high-energy weapons.
✓ Discuss the relationship of the frontal
surface of an impacting object to energy
exchange and injury production.
✓ Integrate principles of the
kinematics of trauma into patient
assessment.
✓ Describe the recommended card
and procedure for documenting
TCCC care on the battlefield.
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CHAPTER 4
Kinematics
of Trauma
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
At the completion of this chapter, the reader will be able to do the following:
✓ Define energy in the context of production of injury.
✓ Describe the association between the laws of motion, energy, and the
kinematics of trauma.
✓ Describe the relationship of injury and energy exchange to speed.
✓ Discuss energy exchange and the production of cavitation.
✓ Given the description of a motor vehicle crash, use kinematics to predict
the likely injury pattern for an unrestrained occupant.
✓ Associate the principles of energy exchange with the pathophysiology of
injury to the head, spine, thorax, abdomen, and extremities resulting from
that exchange.
✓ Describe the specific injuries and their causes as related to interior and
exterior vehicle damage.
✓ Describe the function of restraint systems for vehicle occupants.
✓ Relate the laws of motion and energy to mechanisms other than
motor vehicle crashes (e.g. blasts, falls).
✓ Describe the five phases of blast injury and the injuries produced in each phase.
✓ Describe the differences in the production of injury with low-
, medium-, and high-energy weapons.
✓ Discuss the relationship of the frontal
surface of an impacting object to energy
exchange and injury production.
✓ Integrate principles of the
kinematics of trauma into patient
assessment.
✓ Describe the recommended card
and procedure for documenting
TCCC care on the battlefield.
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