TNCC - Trauma Nursing Core Course package deal A+

What is the key to a high performing trauma team? - Consistent communication (Communication, cooperation, and coordination are the foundations of successful teamwork in trauma care p.6) When obtaining a history for an injured patient, determining energy transfer through biomechanical data helps ...

What is the key to a high performing trauma team? - x When obtaining a history for an injured patient, determing energy transfer through biochemical data help the nurse to: - x The major preventable cause of death in the trauma patient is: - x The across-the-room observation step in the inital a...

Major cause of death 1-44 - Trauma: major cause of death for people ages 1-44 years Epidemiology: Unintentional injury is a leading cause of death across all age groups in the US - • 65+ falls are the leading cause of injury-related deaths • 25-64: poisoning is the leading cause of death •...

1.What is the effect of hypothermia on the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve - Hemoglobin does not readily release oxygen for use by the tissues A shift to the left occurs in an environment of low metabolic demand (hypothermia, hypocapnia, alkalosis), increasing hemoglobin's affinity for oxygen. ...

Biomechanics - is the general study of forces and their effects kinematics - the study of energy transfer as it applies to identifying actual or potential injuries Mechanism of Injury (MOI) - is how external forces are transferred to the body, resulting in injury Newton's First Law - a body at r...

C What are the primary benefits of a team approach to trauma care - it provides a systemic approach to care and organizes care A In the primary survey AVPU is performed to determine if the patient can: - Protect their aiway B WHich may lead to unreliable pulse ox reading - carboxyhemoglobin A Th...

An adult pt who sustained a severe head trauma has been intubated and is being manually ventilated via a bag-mask device at a rate of 18 breaths/minute. The pt has received one intravenous fluid bolus of 500 mL of warmed isotonic crystalloid solution. the PaCO2 is 30mmHg (4.0 kPa), and the pulse o...

just keep evaluating - vipp - What does the J stand for at the end of the secondary survery? vital signs, injuries/interventions, primary survey, pain - What does VIPP stand for? flank - During the head-to-toe, where would you find Grey-Turner's sign? umbilicus - During the head-to-toe, where wo...