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Trauma Assessment Flashcards

1
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What is the first step when attending a trauma

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Checking for any dangers, and ensure that there is a safe scene to approach.

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What is a safe scene approach?

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Assessing and recognising if there are possible hazards present. Also what PPE will be required.

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What initial patient assessment do we do?

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Level of response (AVPU), general impression (end of bed assessment) -colour, eye contact, patient positioning, obvious pain.

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4
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If the patient is awake what must we do?

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Gain consent

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What is the first step after checking for danger in the primary survey?

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Catastrophic Haemorrhage - assess the patient of life threatening external bleeding

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What equipment can we use for catastrophic haemorrhage?

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CAT Tourniquet, celox, russel chest seal

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7
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What is after catastrophic Haemorrhage?

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Airway

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How do we check a patients airway?

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Open it by either a head tilt chin lift or a jaw thrust. Look inside for vomit, blood etc. Apply suction if required. Can use an OPA or a NPA to help keep the airway open.

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9
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After Airway what do we assess next?

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Breathing

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How do we assess breathing?

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Get down to skin level, watch the chest rise and fall (is it equal). Auscultate and listen to the chest (what does it sound like). APPLY 100% OXYGEN WITH A NON REBREATHER MASK.

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What is after breathing?

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Circulation

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How do we check circulation?

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Can check breathiing and circulation simultaneously. While watching the chest rise and fall and check for a cararotid pulse. Check for radial pulses, temperature of the patients hands, colour, sweaty, clammy and also consider doing a capillarey refill time.

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13
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What is after circulation?

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Disability

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What does checking disability involve?

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Checking the pupils - equal size, reactivity, direct resonse to light, consensual reflex, Pupils equal and reacting to light (pearl).
Consider blood glucose levels.

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What is after checking the disbailty?

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Expose and Examine

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16
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What does expose and examine consist of?

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Removing all of the patients clothing, looking for obvious bleeding, deformity and bruising.

17
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What is after the primary survey?

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Secondary Survey

18
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What is the purpose of a secondary survey

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To identify and treat of any life threatening or limb threatening diseases.

19
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What history take structure must we use when doing a secondary survey?

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AMPLE - Alergies, Medication, Past medical History, Last meal, Events leading up to

20
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Begins with D

What is the acronym when performing a head to toe exam?

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DCAPBTLS - deformities, contusions, crepitus, abrasions, punctures, penetration,burns, tenderness, lacerations, swelling.

21
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What is involved when completing a head to toe survey at the head?

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Feel all over the head, check the hair - do not force open the eyes or mouth.

22
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For conscious patients, what are we noting down about the radial pulse?

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The rate, rhythm, strength

23
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If the patient is not awake, how do we gain consent?

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Work under the doctrine of necessity

24
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What is agitation an early sign of?

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Hypoxia and traumatic brain injury

25
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What do you need to do as part of the secondary survey regarding the chest.

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Full auscultation of all the lung fields when assessing the chest.

26
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As part of the secondary survey what are we assessing in the neurological exam?

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Calculating the GCS score, motor and sensory exam, pupils (important to reassess regularly).

27
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If anything changes with the pts condition what do we do?

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Reassess and return to the ABCDE process

28
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Where do we start the head to toe exam?

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The head

29
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What should you do when checking the head in the head to toe exam?

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Feel all over the head, red flags include boggy masses, battle signs, raccoon eyes, altered pupillary response.

30
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What is after the head in the top to toe survey?

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The neck

31
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What are we assessing the neck for in the top to toe survey?

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A central trachea, DCAPBTLS, feel for c-spine pain, tenderness, bony abnormalities, measure and apply collar, crepitus of the larynx, hoarseness, subcutaneous emphysema.

32
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What is after the neck in the top to toe survey?

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The chest

33
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What are we checking the chest for in the top to toe survey?

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DCAPBTLS, equal chest expansion, are there any open wounds. Need to do a full auscultation. IPPA

34
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What is after the chest in the top to toe exam?

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The abdomen

35
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What are we checking the abdomen for in the top to toe survey?

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Visual checks - signs of bleeding or bruising. Palpate all quadrants and stop when you feel pain!

36
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What is after the abdomen in the top to toe survey?

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The pelvis

37
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What do we need to check the pelvis for in the top to toe exam?

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If haven’t done so already apply pelvic binder. Unstable pelvic fractures can cause significant internal haemorrhage.

38
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What is the last thing to check on the top to toe survey?

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The back and limbs - DCAPBTLS and dress any wounds.

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