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What’s Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) used for?

A

Determines level of responsiveness

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What does Glasgow Coma Scale measure?

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Eye Opening
Verbal Response
Motor Response

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What’s highest score for parts of Glasgow Coma Scale

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Eye Opening: 4
Verbal Response: 5
Motor Response: 6

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GCS: Eye opening responses to stimuli

A

Spontaneous
To voice
To pain
None

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GCS: Verbal responses to stimuli

A
Oriented
Confused
Inappropriate Words
Incomprehensible
None
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GCS: Motor responses to stimuli

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Obeys Command
Localizes Pain
Withdraws (pain)
Flexion (pain)
Extension (pain)
None
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Primary phase blast injuries are caused by what?

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Pressure wave

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Secondary phase blast injuries are caused by what?

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Flying debris

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Tertiary phase blast injuries are caused by what?

A

Victim displacement

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10
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An adult patient has _ mL/kg of blood volume

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70 mL/kg of blood volume

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An average-sized adult has _ L of blood volume

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4.9 L of blood volume

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A loss of _% of blood volume or more can lead to shock

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15% blood volume loss can lead to shock

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