Finals Flashcards
Is a situation which poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or environment.
Emergency
protect those that have had basic first aid training and are certified.
Good samaritan law
Is the impact of a natural or man-made hazard that negatively affects society or environment.
Disaster
Types of Disaster
- Natural
- Human-Caused
- Technological
encouraged to be involved in daily community activities as a health advisor.
Nurses
Reducing potential disaster damages before a disaster threatens.
Mitigation
Developing operational capabilities and facilitating an effective response before an emergency occurs
Preparedness
Actions taken immediately before, during, or directly after an emergency occurs.
Response
Most difficult disaster phase.
Recovery
A process for sorting injured people into groups based on their need when resources are insufficient for all to be treated
Triage
simple triage and rapid treatment
Start
secondary assessment of victim endpoint
Save
An intentional or unintentional wound or injury inflicted on the body from a mechanism against which the body cannot protect itself.
Trauma
any force that penetrates or fractures the skull
Direct trauma
severe forces that may shake or rotate the brain enough to cause permanent brain damage
Indirect trauma
Classification of Trauma
Direct, Indirect
Types of Trauma
Acceleration, Blunt
occurs when the body is moving and strikes another moving or stationary object.
Acceleration/Deceleration Trauma
occurs when an object strikes the body or head with force causing a compression of body tissues which results injury
Blunt trauma
Is an object entering the body or head due to an object striking the body, or the body being placed in motion and striking an object
Penetrating Trauma
a violent jarring or shaking that results in a disturbance of brain function
Cincussion
Pain at tip of left shoulder and left upper quadrant
Kehr’s
Abnormal sound or murmur along middle or lower back
Bruit
Fixes area of dullness when left quadrant abdominal quadrant is percussed
Ballance’s
Bluish color on blank
Turner’s
Purplish color around umbilicus
Cullen’s
Lumbar spine level
Hematoma
Abount one per minute
Decreased peristaltic sounds
Ecchymosis
Coopernail
Soft tissues injuries
- Closed soft tissue injury
- Open soft tissue injury
Kinds of Open Wounds
- Puncture wound
- Laceration
- Abrasion
- Incision
- Avulsion
- Bites
Virus transmitted by infected saliva through bite or wound
Brain inflammation
highly modified saliva
Snake venom
Local envenoming (swelling etc.) with bleeding/clotting disturbances
VIPERIDAE (Syndrome 1)
Ptosis, external ophthalmoplegia, facial paralysis etc. and dark brown urine
Russell’s viper (Syndrome 2)
Blow up a blood pressure cuff to 80 mm Hg and leave it on for 5 minutes.
Hess’s test
Manufactured by hyper immunizing horses against venoms of four standard snakes
Polyvalent antivenin
stored in a cool dark place & may last for 5 years
Lyophilised form
has to be stored at 4°c with much shorter life span
Liquid form
membrane active polypeptide that can cause degranulation of basophils and mast cells, constitutes more than 50 percent of the dry weight of bee venom
Melittina
Insulin has shown to improve cardiopulmonary status in case of scorpion envenomation
Newer modality
begins at the time of injury and concludes with restoration of capillary permeability.
Emergent Phase/Resuscitative Phase
when the person is hemodynamically stable, capillary
permeability has been restored and diuresis has begun
Acute phase
begins during the acute hospital stay, after the patient is stable
Rehabilitative Phase
the heart is still beating.
Cardiovascular Collapse
individual fascicles of the heart beat independently
rather than the usual coordinated, synchronized manner that produce rhythmic heartbeat.
Ventricular Fibrillation
the heart has stopped beating.
Cardiac Standstill
