EMT CH 24 - Trauma Overview Exam
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arterial air embolism - ✔✔Air bubbles in the arterial blood vessels.
blunt trauma - ✔✔An impact on the body by objects that cause injury without
penetrating soft tissues or internal organs and cavities.
Cavitation - ✔✔A phenomenon in which speed causes a bullet to generate pressure
waves, which cause damage distant from the bullet's path.
coup-contrecoup injury - ✔✔Dual impacting of the brain into the skull; coup injury
occurs at the point of impact; contrecoup injury occurs on the opposite side of impact,
as the brain rebounds.
Deceleration - ✔✔The slowing of an object.
Drag - ✔✔Resistance that slows a projectile, such as air.
Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score - ✔✔An evaluation tool used to determine level of
consciousness, which evaluates and assigns point values (scores) for eye opening,
verbal response, and motor response, which are then totaled; effective in helping
predict patient outcomes.
index of suspicion - ✔✔Awareness that unseen life-threatening injuries may exist when
determining the mechanism of injury.
kinetic energy - ✔✔The energy of a moving object.
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, mechanism of injury (MOI) - ✔✔The way in which traumatic injuries occur; the forces
that act on the body to cause damage.
medical emergencies - ✔✔Emergencies that require EMS attention because of illnesses
or conditions not caused by an outside force.
multisystem trauma - ✔✔Trauma that affects more than one body system.
penetrating trauma - ✔✔Injury caused by objects, such as knives and bullets, that pierce
the surface of the body and damage internal tissues and organs.
potential energy - ✔✔The product of mass, gravity, and height, which is converted into
kinetic energy and results in injury, such as from a fall.
Projectile - ✔✔Any object propelled by force, such as a bullet by a weapon.
pulmonary blast injuries - ✔✔Pulmonary trauma resulting from short-range exposure
to the detonation of explosives.
Revised Trauma Score (RTS) - ✔✔A scoring system used for patients with head trauma.
Trajectory - ✔✔The path a projectile takes once it is propelled.
trauma emergencies - ✔✔Emergencies that are the result of physical forces applied to a
patient's body.
trauma score - ✔✔A score that relates to the likelihood of patient survival with the
exception of a severe head injury. It calculates a number from 1 to 16, with 16 being the
best possible score. It takes into account the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score,
respiratory rate, respiratory expansion, systolic blood pressure, and capillary refill.
tympanic membrane - ✔✔The eardrum; a thin, semitransparent membrane in the
middle ear that transmits sound vibrations to the internal ear by means of auditory
ossicles.
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
arterial air embolism - ✔✔Air bubbles in the arterial blood vessels.
blunt trauma - ✔✔An impact on the body by objects that cause injury without
penetrating soft tissues or internal organs and cavities.
Cavitation - ✔✔A phenomenon in which speed causes a bullet to generate pressure
waves, which cause damage distant from the bullet's path.
coup-contrecoup injury - ✔✔Dual impacting of the brain into the skull; coup injury
occurs at the point of impact; contrecoup injury occurs on the opposite side of impact,
as the brain rebounds.
Deceleration - ✔✔The slowing of an object.
Drag - ✔✔Resistance that slows a projectile, such as air.
Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score - ✔✔An evaluation tool used to determine level of
consciousness, which evaluates and assigns point values (scores) for eye opening,
verbal response, and motor response, which are then totaled; effective in helping
predict patient outcomes.
index of suspicion - ✔✔Awareness that unseen life-threatening injuries may exist when
determining the mechanism of injury.
kinetic energy - ✔✔The energy of a moving object.
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, mechanism of injury (MOI) - ✔✔The way in which traumatic injuries occur; the forces
that act on the body to cause damage.
medical emergencies - ✔✔Emergencies that require EMS attention because of illnesses
or conditions not caused by an outside force.
multisystem trauma - ✔✔Trauma that affects more than one body system.
penetrating trauma - ✔✔Injury caused by objects, such as knives and bullets, that pierce
the surface of the body and damage internal tissues and organs.
potential energy - ✔✔The product of mass, gravity, and height, which is converted into
kinetic energy and results in injury, such as from a fall.
Projectile - ✔✔Any object propelled by force, such as a bullet by a weapon.
pulmonary blast injuries - ✔✔Pulmonary trauma resulting from short-range exposure
to the detonation of explosives.
Revised Trauma Score (RTS) - ✔✔A scoring system used for patients with head trauma.
Trajectory - ✔✔The path a projectile takes once it is propelled.
trauma emergencies - ✔✔Emergencies that are the result of physical forces applied to a
patient's body.
trauma score - ✔✔A score that relates to the likelihood of patient survival with the
exception of a severe head injury. It calculates a number from 1 to 16, with 16 being the
best possible score. It takes into account the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score,
respiratory rate, respiratory expansion, systolic blood pressure, and capillary refill.
tympanic membrane - ✔✔The eardrum; a thin, semitransparent membrane in the
middle ear that transmits sound vibrations to the internal ear by means of auditory
ossicles.
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