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Trauma Care Final Exam Study Guide.
Emergency Severity Index (ESI) - answer✔a method of classifying patients into five categories based on
the severity of their conditions and resource needs.
1—Resuscitation—immediate treatment is necessary
2—Emergent—may deteriorate rapidly, time sensitive
3—urgent---non-life-threatening, needs more than 2 resources
4—non-urgent—non-life-threatening, one resource required
5—minor—non-life-threatening, no resources required
Emergency Severity Index (ESI)
-1 - answer✔Resuscitation—immediate treatment is necessary
Emergency Severity Index (ESI)
-2 - answer✔Emergent—may deteriorate rapidly, time sensitive
Emergency Severity Index (ESI)
-3 - answer✔urgent---non-life-threatening, needs more than 2 resources
Emergency Severity Index (ESI)
-4 - answer✔non-urgent—non-life-threatening, one resource required
Emergency Severity Index (ESI)
-5 - answer✔minor—non-life-threatening, no resources required
Initial management - answer✔Airway
Ventilation
Control bleeding
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Prevent shock
Maintain spinal immobilization
Transport to closest facility
Triage: Immediate (Red) - answer✔stabilization and evaluation/ airway management, breathing, and
circulation
Triage: Next - answer✔history of drug or toxins, time and duration of exposure, first aid treatment
received prior to hospitalization
Triage - answer✔the medical screening of patients to determine their relative priority of need and the
proper place of treatment
Obtain allergies, underlying disease, processes or related injury
Safety for injuries
-Contusion - answer✔major bruising due to blunt trauma
Safety for injuries
-Flail chest - answer✔segment of the rib cage breaks off due to trauma and becomes detached from the
chest wall
Safety for injuries
-Hemothorax - answer✔collapsed lung where pleural cavity fills with blood,prepare for chest tube
insertion on affected side, administer blood or blood products as ordered, anticipate and prepare for
emergency open thoracotomy
Safety for injuries
-Spinal Cord Injury - answer✔avoid hyperextension or rotation of patient's neck, observe ventilatory
effort and use of accessory muscles, maintain complex spinal immobilization, monitor for signs of
disruptive (neurogenic) shock
Safety for injuries
-Pneumothorax - answer✔collapsed lung where pleural cavity is filled with air, prepare for chest tube on
affected side
Safety for injuries
11/6/2024 12:22 AM
Trauma Care Final Exam Study Guide.
Emergency Severity Index (ESI) - answer✔a method of classifying patients into five categories based on
the severity of their conditions and resource needs.
1—Resuscitation—immediate treatment is necessary
2—Emergent—may deteriorate rapidly, time sensitive
3—urgent---non-life-threatening, needs more than 2 resources
4—non-urgent—non-life-threatening, one resource required
5—minor—non-life-threatening, no resources required
Emergency Severity Index (ESI)
-1 - answer✔Resuscitation—immediate treatment is necessary
Emergency Severity Index (ESI)
-2 - answer✔Emergent—may deteriorate rapidly, time sensitive
Emergency Severity Index (ESI)
-3 - answer✔urgent---non-life-threatening, needs more than 2 resources
Emergency Severity Index (ESI)
-4 - answer✔non-urgent—non-life-threatening, one resource required
Emergency Severity Index (ESI)
-5 - answer✔minor—non-life-threatening, no resources required
Initial management - answer✔Airway
Ventilation
Control bleeding
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Prevent shock
Maintain spinal immobilization
Transport to closest facility
Triage: Immediate (Red) - answer✔stabilization and evaluation/ airway management, breathing, and
circulation
Triage: Next - answer✔history of drug or toxins, time and duration of exposure, first aid treatment
received prior to hospitalization
Triage - answer✔the medical screening of patients to determine their relative priority of need and the
proper place of treatment
Obtain allergies, underlying disease, processes or related injury
Safety for injuries
-Contusion - answer✔major bruising due to blunt trauma
Safety for injuries
-Flail chest - answer✔segment of the rib cage breaks off due to trauma and becomes detached from the
chest wall
Safety for injuries
-Hemothorax - answer✔collapsed lung where pleural cavity fills with blood,prepare for chest tube
insertion on affected side, administer blood or blood products as ordered, anticipate and prepare for
emergency open thoracotomy
Safety for injuries
-Spinal Cord Injury - answer✔avoid hyperextension or rotation of patient's neck, observe ventilatory
effort and use of accessory muscles, maintain complex spinal immobilization, monitor for signs of
disruptive (neurogenic) shock
Safety for injuries
-Pneumothorax - answer✔collapsed lung where pleural cavity is filled with air, prepare for chest tube on
affected side
Safety for injuries
