V4C1 Trauma And Trauma Systems Flashcards
Process to examine a disease and determine the various factors that affect its development, course, and consequences
Risk analysis
5 step approach to prevent or reduce the impact of disease
Surveillance, risk identification, intervention, implementation, and evaluation.
The circumstances and events by which an injury occurs
MOI
In remote areas a small community hospital or medical care facility may be designated a trauma receiving facility meaning that it will stabilize and prepare seriously injured trauma patients for transport to a higher level facility
Level IV trauma facility
Stable patients should receive what kind of assessment
Focused
Occurs as a result of a nonpenetrating injury
Blunt trauma
This act helped establish guidelines, funding, and state level leader ship and support for trauma systems
The trauma care systems planning and development act of 1990
Act of placing an intervention into practice
Implementation
Commits to special emergency department training and has some surgical capability, but will usually stabilize and transfer seriously injured trauma patients to a higher level trauma center as needed
Level III community trauma center
Commits the resources to address the most common trauma emergencies with surgical capability available 24 hours a day, seven days a week; will stabilize and transport specialty cases to the regional trauma center
Level II Area Trauma Center
Serious and life threatening injuries typically occur in less than __ of all trauma patients.
10 percent
Occurs when an object enters the body and exchanges energy directly with human tissue
Penetrating trauma
One of the first documents to classify trauma as a disease
The white paper
The process of repeating the surveillance that took place before an intervention to identify benefits of the intervention
Evaluation
Physical injury or wound caused by an external force or forces
Trauma
