Adult Trauma Assessment

Question 1

What are the 5 areas you should be concerned with in the field of a trauma scene?

Answer 1

protect yourself, conduct primary assessment and manage life threats, perform rapid trauma assessment, extricate patient, immobolize and transport while performing secondary survey

Question 2

What is the summary of the scene survey?

Answer 2

evaluate situation/ scene for potential safety hazrads. Obtain an overview of the scene to determine MOI which includes damage to vehicles, structures, furniture. Gain access to patient. Determine number of patients and additional resources needed.

Question 3

What are the parts of Primary Airway, C-spine, and LOC assessment

Answer 3

airway maintainable?, LOC, AMS, skin appearance, facial fractures, head fractures, c-spine step off, airway clearance, sounds of obstruction, GCS

Question 4

What is a good technique for assessing the chest in a trauma patient.

Answer 4

Wrap you hands around whole chest

Question 5

Primary breathing assessment parts

Answer 5

• Rate and depth of respirations
• Cyanosis
• Position of the trachea
• Presence of obvious injury or deformity
• Work of breathing
• Use of accessory muscles
• Flaring of nostrils
• Presence of bilateral breath sounds
• Asymmetric chest movements
• Palpation of crepitus
• Integrity of chest wall

Question 6

Primary circulation assessment parts

Answer 6

Pulse rate and quality

• Skin appearance: Color
• Peripheral pulses
• Skin temperature
• Level of consciousness
• Open wounds
• Arterial and/ or venous hemorrhage

Question 7

The primary assessment is a _______ process

Answer 7

fix as you go

Question 8

When a problem is identified during the primary assessment then

Answer 8

immediately declare the patient as high priority and rapidly extricate

Question 9

To perform a rapid trauma assessment the patient must

Answer 9

be fully exposed