EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) (2018) Flashcards
EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
Which chapter of the Emergency War Surgery provides information for, Mass casuality and triage ?
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Chapter 3
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What system has been adapted to provide rapid movement of casualities through the continumm of care ?
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Joint Theater Trauma System (JTTS)
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
Who can complicate the mass casualty event ?
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Third-country nationals
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
What plan must be designed, exrcised, and assed to reflect relevant site and evacuation cpability ?
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Mass Casualty Response Plan
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
Which taige category requires fluid resuscitaion, stablization of Fx, and administartion of antibotics, bladder catherization, gastric decompression, and reliefe of pain ?
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DELAYED
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
Which triage group category can be constituted as a manpower resource, utilized to assit with movement or care of the injured ?
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Minimal
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
Which triage category requires a staff capable of monitoring and providing comfot measures ?
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Expectant
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
Personnel who are evacuated to a surgical unit and previosuly classified as what category should not be brough through th resuscitation area ?
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Minimal
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
Casualitied not identified as minimal should be divided into which remaining categories ?
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Emergent, non-emergent, and expectant
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
Ther personnel divided into the non-emergent category still require surgery within what time span ?
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6 - 12Hrs
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
It is approximated that what percentage of casualties presented to a surgical unit will require urgent surgery ?
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10% - 20%
However, this is incident dependent
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
Which casualties may require a special triage consideration ?
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Those who do not eaily fit into the standard triage categories, or pose a risk to other casualties, medical personnel or the treatment facility itself.
1) CBRN casulaties Local or 2) third country national : Examples
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
Which action must occur with all casualties prior to moving theminto a treatment area ?
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Screening and Disarming
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
It should be recognized that less stringent pre-deployment health assesments or requirements may permit whom with signifignat chornic health comorbities to enter a theater or war as a popoulation at risk ?
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Allied and third nation contractor
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Which patients should be segregated from injured patients to improve the odds of rapid recovery during triage ?
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Comabt Stress Pateints
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
What percentage of combat stress casualties can be returned to duty ?
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With expeditious care 80% can return to duty -
warning: Do not use them as litter bearers because they can increase the trauma we seek to reduce
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What 2” groups are stress combat casualties placed into ?
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Light and Heavy Stress
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
Casualties who have been placed in the heavy stress group may be sent to the combat stress control restoration center for how many days ?
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3 days reconsititution
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
Liasion with the tactical force operating in your area is essential to making which type of decisions ?
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Sound triage
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
Which constraint may prove to making the decision to treat or not to treat the individual casualty ?
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Resupply : Having a sense of how and when my internal resources will be resupplied will dictate if i treat a casuality or not
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
Approximately how many causalities that are brought to the surgical unti will require urgent surgery ?
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10% - 20% : but this is incident depended
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
Which Casualities may require a special triage consideration ?
They pose a threat to 3 things.. what are those three things ?
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Those who pose a risk to other casualties, medical personnel, or the treatment facility
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EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY (REV 5) / (2018)
What is considered the “choking point” within a medical treatment facility that provides surgical care ?
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Time on the operating table
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Which issues are known to all medical personnel and should be factored into triage ?
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Internal factors
Such as supplies, Space/capabilities
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