Chapter 25 Trauma Overview

Question 1

Air bubbles in the arterial blood vessels

Answer 1

Arterial air embolism

Question 2

An impact on the body by objects that cause injury without penetrating soft tissues or internal organs in cavities

Answer 2

Blunt trauma

Question 3

Phenomenon in which speed causes a bullet to generate pressure waves which caused damage distant from the bullets path

Answer 3

Cavitation

Question 4

A brain injury that occurs when forces apply to the head and energy transmission through the brain tissues causes injury on the opposite side, the original impact

Answer 4

Coup-contrecoup brain injury

Question 5

The slowing of an object

Answer 5

Deceleration

Question 6

Resistance that slows a projectile such as air

Answer 6

Drag

Question 7

And evaluation tool used to determine level of consciousness

Answer 7

Glasgow coma scale

Question 8

Awareness. That unseen, life-threatening injuries may exist when determining the mechanism of injury.

Answer 8

Index of suspicion

Question 9

The energy of a moving object

Answer 9

Kinetic energy

Question 10

The forces or energy transmission applied to the body that cause injury

Answer 10

Mechanism of injury MOI

Question 11

Emergencies that require EMS attention because of illness or conditions not caused by outside force

Answer 11

Medical emergencies

Question 12

Trauma that affects more than one body system

Answer 12

Multisystem trauma

Question 13

Injury caused by objects, such as knives and bullets that pierce the surface of the body damage, internal tissues and organs

Answer 13

Penetrating trauma

Question 14

The product of mass, gravity and height, which is converted into kinetic energy and results, an injury, such as form a fall

Answer 14

Potential energy

Question 15

Any object propelled by force, such as a bullet By a weapon

Answer 15

Projectile

Question 16

Pulmonary trauma, resulting from short range, exposure to the detonation of explosives

Answer 16

Pulmonary blast injuries

Question 17

Scoring system used for patients with head trauma

Answer 17

Revised trauma score

Question 18

The path of a projectile takes once it is propelled

Answer 18

Trajectory

Question 19

Emergency is that a result of physical force is applied to a patient’s body

Answer 19

Trauma emergencies

Question 20

A score calculated from one to 16 where 16 being the best possible score it relates to the likelihood of patient survival with the exception of a severe head injury.

Answer 20

Trauma score

Question 21

The eardrum, a thin, semi transparent membrane in the middle ear, that transmit sound vibrations into the internal ear, by means of auditory ossicles

Answer 21

Tympanic membrane

Question 22

The measure of force over distance

Answer 22

Work