TNCC exam questions WITH 100% VERIFIED answers(revised)

TNCC exam questions WITH 100% VERIFIED answers(revised) What roles are vital to a trauma team? -The patient -The team leader -Core team -Contigency and support services What are the characteristics of an effective team? - Clear roles and responsibilities - Shared mental model - Optimize resources - Strong team leadership - Engage in regular discipline of feedback - Strong sense of collective trust and confidence - Create mechanisms to cooperate and coordinate - Manage and optimize performance outcomes -Interdependent and adaptive What are key foundations to successful teamwork in the care of the trauma patient? ... What tools can be used to promote communication within a team structure? What are the benefits of each? - Brief: designed to form the team, designate team roles and responsibilities, establish climate and goals, and engage the team in short and long-term planning - Huddle: ideally convened prior to trauma patient's arrival; communicate critical issues and emerging events, anticipate outcomes and likely contingencies, assign resources, express concerns - Debrief: process improvement Define trauma Injury to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent; creates stressors that exceed tissue or organ's ability to compensate Define epidemiology Study of factors that determine and influence the frequency and distribution of injury, disease, and other health-related events and their causes in a defined human population When is the potential for traumatic injury present? Whenever energy comes in contact with the human body Define kinematics The study of energy transfer as it applies to identifying actual or intentional injuries Define biomechanics The general study of forces and their effects Define mechanism of injury How external forces are transferred to the body, resulting in injury Define potential energy Stored energy; "at rest" Define kinetic energy Energy in motion Describe Newton's First Law of Motion A body at rest will remain at rest, and a body in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force (energy) Describe Newton's Second Law of Motion (F)orce = (m)ass x (a)cceleration; It takes more force to move a heavy object Describe Newton's Third Law of Motion For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction resulting from the transfer of energy Describe the Law of Conservation of Energy Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but it can change form What are the five forms in which energy exist? - Mechanical: direct impact of an object - Thermal - Chemical - Electrical - Radiant