Trauma Flashcards
Important signs in basilar skull fracture
CURRERI FORMULA
day
25KCAL/KG/DAq
PLUS 40KCAL/TBSA/
Also known as ESMARCH MANEUVER
Jaw thrust
Site of needle thoracostomy decompression
2nd ICS MCL
Occurs with full thickness loss of chest wall, permitting free communication between the pleural space and the athmosphere
Open pneumothorax
Definitive management for open pneumothorax
Closure of chest wall defect and closed tube thoracostomy
Site of chest tube thoracostomy
4th or 5th ICS MAL
Carotid pulse pressure
60mmHG
Femoral pulse pressure
70mmHG
Radial pulse pressur
80mmHG
Earliest sign of cardiac tamponade
Kussmaul sign
Pulsus paradoxus
Ml of blood in massive hemothorax
more than 1500 ml
Preferred diagnostic test for cardiac tamponade
Echocardiography
Gold standard for diagnosis of CSF Leak
(+) B2 TRANSFERRIN
Hematoma that crosses the suture lines
Acute subdural hematoma
Vessel involved in subdural hematoma
Bridging veins
Volume of Epidural jematoma thst requires craniotomy and evacuation
> 30 ml