HeadTrauma - HeadTrauma Flashcards
What’s Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) used for?
Determines level of responsiveness
What does Glasgow Coma Scale measure?
Eye Opening
Verbal Response
Motor Response
What’s highest score for parts of Glasgow Coma Scale
Eye Opening: 4
Verbal Response: 5
Motor Response: 6
GCS: Eye opening responses to stimuli
Spontaneous
To voice
To pain
None
GCS: Verbal responses to stimuli
Oriented Confused Inappropriate Words Incomprehensible None
GCS: Motor responses to stimuli
Obeys Command Localizes Pain Withdraws (pain) Flexion (pain) Extension (pain) None
Primary phase blast injuries are caused by what?
Pressure wave
Secondary phase blast injuries are caused by what?
Flying debris
Tertiary phase blast injuries are caused by what?
Victim displacement
An adult patient has _ mL/kg of blood volume
70 mL/kg of blood volume
An average-sized adult has _ L of blood volume
4.9 L of blood volume
A loss of _% of blood volume or more can lead to shock
15% blood volume loss can lead to shock