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CAISS Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions Perforation - Answer️️ -hole or break or opening made through the entire thickness of a membrane, wall or other tissue of an organ or structure of the body Rupture - Answer️️ -breaking open or bursting to forcibly resulting in a hole, break...

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Perforation - Answer✔️✔️-hole or break or opening made through the entire thickness of

a membrane, wall or other tissue of an organ or structure of the body


Rupture - Answer✔️✔️-breaking open or bursting to forcibly resulting in a hole, break, or

opening with stellate edges or devitalized tissue

AIS assesses: - Answer✔️✔️-assesses the severity of single injuries

ISS assesses: - Answer✔️✔️-assesses the severity of multiply injured patients

ISS equation - Answer✔️✔️-sum of the squares of the highest AIS in each of the three

most severely injured body regions

A2 + B2 + C2 = ISS

Body regions used to calculate ISS - Answer✔️✔️-1. Head and Neck

2. Face

3. Chest

4. Abdominal and pelvic contents

5. Extremities and pelvic girdle

6. External




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Chapters included in Head/Neck body region - Answer✔️✔️-Head, Neck, C-spine, other

trauma (asphyxia)

Chapters included in Face body region - Answer✔️✔️-Face

Chapters included in Chest body region - Answer✔️✔️-Thorax, Thoracic Spine, Other

Truma (drowning)

Chapters included in Abdomen and Pelvic Contents body region - Answer✔️✔️-

Abdomen, Lumbar Spine

Chapters included in Extremity and Pelvic Girdle body region - Answer✔️✔️-Upper

Extremity, Lower Extremity, Bones of the Pelvis

Chapters included in External body region - Answer✔️✔️-Penetrating injury sections,

blunt soft tissue injury sections, external/skin and thermal injuries, electrical injury,

hypothermia, whole body injury

Define: Injury - Answer✔️✔️-anatomic lesion resulting from a transfer of energy

(mechanical, chemical, thermal)

Open fracture - Answer✔️✔️-skin overlying fracture is lacerated

Closed fracture - Answer✔️✔️-skin overlying fracture is not lacerated

Articular Fracture - Answer✔️✔️-fracture involving the joint

Communited fracture - Answer✔️✔️-multiple bone fragments

Displaced fracture - Answer✔️✔️-two ends of bone are not aligned



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