What are the definitive options for pelvic fracture stabilization and hemorrhage control? - Accurate AnswerExternal Fixation,
Interventional Radiology
Open reduction & Internal fixation
How are closed mid-shaft femur fractures managed? - Accurate AnswerIntramedullary nail fixation.
What mak...
What are the definitive options for pelvic fracture stabilization and hemorrhage control? -
Accurate Answer✅✅External Fixation,
Interventional Radiology
Open reduction & Internal fixation
How are closed mid-shaft femur fractures managed? - Accurate Answer✅✅Intramedullary nail
fixation.
What makes a fracture comminuted? - Accurate Answer✅✅The bone is in multiple pieces.
Physiologic criteria for trauma center care? - Accurate Answer✅✅SBP<90,
Resp rate <10 or >29
GCS <14
What is Kinematics? - Accurate Answer✅✅The process of predicting potential injuries based on
analysis of the forces involved.
,Dose of energy is? - Accurate Answer✅✅The nature and amount of force.
Characteristic of wounding agent? - Accurate Answer✅✅Type of energy and how it was
applied.
Force - Accurate Answer✅✅The dose of energy involved.
Which gender is the majority of trauma? - Accurate Answer✅✅Male.
Incidence of trauma peaks at what age? - Accurate Answer✅✅Teens and young adult.
Blunt trauma Classifications include? - Accurate Answer✅✅MVA
Auto vs. pedestrian
Falls
Struck by or against an object
Trauma mortality based on organ system failure? - Accurate Answer✅✅1 organ system
failure=4%
2 organ system failures=32%
3 organ system failures=67%
4 organ system failures=90%
What are the four collisions? - Accurate Answer✅✅1. The vehicle
2. The occupants
3. The internal organs
4. The secondary impacts
Energy transmission in a rollover depends on? - Accurate Answer✅✅Deceleration distance
, Energy is dissipated over the distance of the roll and whether or not the occupants are restrained
Car vs pedestrian injuries depend on? - Accurate Answer✅✅Point of contact with the care
Height of hood & bumper
Size & weight of vehicle
Height of patient
Direction patient was facing when struck
What is the most common mechanism of injury in all age groups? - Accurate Answer✅✅Falls
Factors predicting fall injuries are? - Accurate Answer✅✅Fall height (velocity)
Landing surface (deceleration distance)
Point of impact on the body
Wound ballistics- permanent cavity - Accurate Answer✅✅Cavity is the a function of the size,
shape, and characteristic of the missile (mass)
For every second of fall time, speed increases by? - Accurate Answer✅✅Speed increases by
approximately 20 MPH
Define Shock? - Accurate Answer✅✅A state in which cellular oxygen demand exceeds supply
When the cost of tissue oxygen is higher than the body can pay, an oxygen debt develops.
Types of shock per TCAR? - Accurate Answer✅✅Pumps-Site of defect heart
Pipes- site of defect is artery, veins or capillaries
Fluid-intravascular, interstitial or intracellular
VS in shock? - Accurate Answer✅✅Narrow pulse pressure
Tachycardia
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