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Peripheral vasoconstriction shunts blood away from the skin to the more vital
organs in the body
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12 Injuries or clinical findings that
Treatment for a patient with full-
1 2 warrant transport to a high level
thickness burns
trauma center:
What happens to the skin of the
3 What is a subluxation 4 body when the body attempts to
compensate for shock?
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High-flow oxygen; dry, sterile dressings; thermal
Treatment for a patient
management (keep patient warm); provide rapid
with full-thickness burns
transport
What should you do if Apply a proximal tourniquet to stop the bleeding
there is a major immediately. Then turn to patient's airway and
hemorrhage in a patient? breathing status (CAB)
How do you care for a Control bleeding with bulky compression (pressure)
partially amputated dressings and splint extremity to prevent further injury
extremity?
Injury to the cervical spine distraction, or stretching, of the vertebrae and spinal
from a hanging occurs cord
through
a partial or incomplete dislocation; this is an injury, not
What is a subluxation
an injury mechanism
Injuries related to Patients who strike their head on the windshield
Hyperextension during a mvc
mechanisms
The spinal column is compressed vertically; injuries
after diving head first into shallow water and lumbar
Axial Loading MOI
spine injuries after a fall from a significant height and
landing feet first
What does cold, pale skin Indicates that blood flow distal to the injury is
and an absent distal pulse compromised
indicate in a limb?
How do you make one By applying gentle manual traction in line with the
attempt to restore distal long axis of the limb
circulation?