what roles are vital to a trauma team? -The Pt, team leader, care team, support services
(anesthesia, RT, paramedics)
what are the characteristics of an effective team? -Dynamic, interdependent, adaptive
What are the key foundations to successful teamwork in the care of the trauma patient? -
Co...
TNCC study guide
what roles are vital to a trauma team? -✔✔✔The Pt, team leader, care team, support services
(anesthesia, RT, paramedics)
what are the characteristics of an effective team? -✔✔✔Dynamic, interdependent, adaptive
What are the key foundations to successful teamwork in the care of the trauma patient? -✔✔✔
Communications, cooperation, coordination.
what tools can be used to promote communication within a team structure -✔✔✔SBAR, DESC, CUS,
callout
define Kinematics -✔✔✔study of energy transfer as it applies to identifying actual or potential injuries
define Bio mechanics -✔✔✔general study of forces and their effects on living tissue and the human
body
define Mechanism of Injury (MOI) -✔✔✔forces in the environment and how they are transferred to a
body
what are newtons 1st, 2nd, and 3rd laws of motion -✔✔✔1. body at rest/rest, body in motion/motion.
2. force=mass X acceleration
3. action/equal and opposite reaction
law of conservation of energy -✔✔✔energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but it can change
form
, what are the five forms in which energy exists -✔✔✔1. mechanical-motion
2. thermal
3. chemical
4. electrical
5. radiation
four main types of traumatic injury -✔✔✔1. Blunt trauma
2. penetrating trauma
3. thermal trauma
4. blast trauma
5 mechanisms of injury in a blast trauma -✔✔✔1. primary-impact of pressure wave
2. secondary- result from flying debris
3. tertiary-from being thrown by blast
4. quaternary-illnesses caused by blast
5. quinary-coplications of quaternary
what is the Haddon matrix -✔✔✔By utilizing this framework, one can then think about evaluating the
relative importance of different factors and design interventions (inc. Pre, Para, and Post. event as well
compared against host, vector, and environment)
current guidelines for volume resuscitation in hemorrhagic shock -✔✔✔RBCs, plasma, and platelets.
Large volumes not recommended. Think permissive hypo-tension.
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