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What is the significance for ABCDE assessment if a person is able to talk? - -They have a patent airway -What are the clinical signs of airway obstruction? - -snoring, stridor, hoarseness or no noise at all -What are the techniques for clearing an obstructed airway? - -Suction Removal of foreign body Head tilt and chin lift Airway adjuncts - Guedel aiway Definite surgical airway -How do you size a Guedel airway? - -measuring from the centre of the mouth (between the first incisors) ...

ATLS Science / Medicine / Surgery Terms in this set (340) A 22-year-old man is hypotensive and tachycardic after a shotgun wound to the left shoulder. His blood pressure is initially 80/40 mm Hg. Afte r initial fluid resuscitation his blood pressure increases to 122/84 mm Hg. His heart rate is now 100 beats per minute and his respiratory rate is 28 breaths per minute. A tube thoracostomy is performed for decreased left chest breath sounds with the return of a small amount of blood and no air lea...

ATLS= - -advanced trauma life support -Steps to ATLS - -Preperation triage primary survey resuscitation secondary survey re-evaluation Definitive care -Preperation - -*patient needs to go to the most appropriate facility PPE, warmed IV fluids -Airway - -Airway= (patency, FB, facial trauma, C-spine protection to prevent vertebral injury into cord injury) *OPA, NPA, intubate, surgical airway (no cricothyrotomy in kids)

hypothermia def - -< 35 C -mild hypother - -32-35 (025) -moderate hypo - -30-32 -severe hypo - -< 30 -who are dead with hypothermia - -K > 10 pH < 7 anoxic event during normothermia -active rewarmding - -Peritoneal lavage CP bypass AV rewarming -when does heart has irritability - -33 -when VF - -28 -when asystole - -25 -caution in hypothermia - -no central line -inotrope - -Bretylium

ATLS Flashcards Quizlet. A 22-year-old man is hypotensive and tachycardic after a shotgun wound to the left shoulder. His blood pressure is initially 80/40 mm Hg. After initial fluid resuscitation his blood pressure increases to 122/84 mm Hg. His heart rate is now 100 beats per minute and his respiratory rate is 28 breaths per minute. A tube thoracostomy is performed for decreased left chest breath sounds with the return of a small amount of blood and no air leak. After chest tub...

ATLS Science / Medicine / Surgery Terms in this set (340) A 22-year-old man is hypotensive and tachycardic after a shotgun wound to the left shoulder. His blood pressure is initially 80/40 mm Hg. Afte r initial fluid resuscitation his blood pressure increases to 122/84 mm Hg. His heart rate is now 100 beats per minute and his respiratory rate is 28 breaths per minute. A tube thoracostomy is performed for decreased left chest breath sounds with the return of a small amount of blood and no air lea...

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ATLS Science / Medicine / Surgery Terms in this set (340) A 22-year-old man is hypotensive and tachycardic after a shotgun wound to the left shoulder. His blood pressure is initially 80/40 mm Hg. Afte r initial fluid resuscitation his blood pressure increases to 122/84 mm Hg. His heart rate is now 100 beats per minute and his respiratory rate is 28 breaths per minute. A tube thoracostomy is performed for decreased left chest breath sounds with the return of a small amount of blood and no air lea...