25 Vocab Trauma

Question 1

Arterial air embolism 

Answer 1

Air bubbles in the arterial blood vessels

Question 2

Blunt trauma

Answer 2

Impact on the body by objects that cause injuries without penetrating, soft tissues

Question 3

Cavitation

Answer 3

the speed causes a bullet to generate pressure Waves

Question 4

Coup contrecoup brain injury

Answer 4

A brain injury when force is applied to the head and injury show the opposite side of the impact

Question 5

Deceleration

Answer 5

The slowing of a object

Question 6

Drag

Answer 6

Resistance that slows a projectile

Question 7

Glasgow coma scale

Answer 7

An evaluation tool used To use to determine level of consciousness

Question 8

Index of suspicion

Answer 8

Awareness. That unseen, life-threatening injuries may exist

Question 9

Kinetic energy

Answer 9

The energy of a moving object

Question 10

Mechanism of injury

Answer 10

The forces or energy applied to the body that cause injury

Question 11

Medical emergencies

Answer 11

Emergencies that requires EMS attention because of illness

Question 12

Multi system trauma

Answer 12

Trauma that affects more than one body system

Question 13

Penetrating trauma

Answer 13

Injury caused by objects, bullets

Question 14

Potential energy

Answer 14

The product of mass, gravity and height, which is converted into kinetic energy

Question 15

Projectile

Answer 15

An object propelled by force

Question 16

Pulmonary blast injuries

Answer 16

short range exposure

Question 17

Revised trauma score

Answer 17

Scoring system used for patients with Head trauma

Question 18

Trajectory

Answer 18

The path of a projectile takes once it’s propelled

Question 19

Trauma emergencies

Answer 19

physical forces applied to a patient’s body

Question 20

Trauma score

Answer 20

A score calculated from 1 to 16 with 16 been the best possible score 

Question 21

Tympanic membrane

Answer 21

The eardrum, a thin, semi transparent Millbrae in the middle ear that transmit sound vibrations to the interior ear, by means of auditory ossicles

Question 22

Work

Answer 22

The measure of force over distance