status codes

Question 1

list of status ones

Answer 1

• Obstructed airway or airway needing intervention to prevent obstruction.
• Severe stridor.
• Severe respiratory distress.
• Severe shock that is unresponsive to fluid administration.
• Complex multi-system trauma with abnormal vital signs.
• Spinal cord injury with quadriplegia.
• Cardiac arrest or post cardiac arrest.
• Cardiogenic shock.
• ST elevation myocardial infarction.
• Ventricular tachycardia.
• Dysrhythmia causing severe cardiovascular compromise.
• Status epilepticus.
• GCS less than or equal to 9.

Question 2

list of stats two

Answer 2

Moderate stridor.
* Moderate respiratory distress.
* Flail chest.
* Moderate shock that is responsive to fluid administration.
* Complex multi-system trauma with normal or near normal vital signs.
* Two or more fractures (including closed fractures) involving the shaft of the femur, the tibia or the humerus.
* Fractures or dislocations with signs of limb ischaemia. Note: there may be abnormal sensation or movement distal to the injury but there must be signs of limb ischaemia for the patient to be status two.
* Spinal cord injury with paraplegia.
* Dysrhythmia causing moderate cardiovascular compromise.
* Myocardial ischaemia with clinically significant symptoms, or signs on 12 lead ECG, which persist following treatment with nitrates. Note: the patient is status two if opiates are administered for the pain of myocardial ischaemia.
* Abnormal level of consciousness with GCS 10-13.

Question 3

staus 3

Answer 3

Status three
* Mild stridor.
* Mild respiratory distress.
* Dysrhythmia causing mild cardiovascular compromise.
* Myocardial ischaemia with symptoms, or signs on 12 lead ECG, that have resolved following treatment with nitrates. Note: the patient is status two if the signs or symptoms return and further administration of nitrates is required.
* Isolated fracture of one bone. This includes the shaft of the femur and compound fractures, provided there are no signs of limb ischaemia.
* Dislocations of joints without distal limb ischaemia.
* Spinal pain without signs or symptoms of spinal cord injury.
* Loss of consciousness with normal or near normal (GCS 14 or 15) recovery.
* Transient ischaemic attack.

Question 4

status 4

Answer 4

Status four
* Isolated minor fractures.
* Strains and sprains.
* Lacerations where bleeding has been controlled.
* Fever without systemic signs of sepsis.
* Headache with normal neurological findings.