TNCC study guide Questions and Answers | Latest Update
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Course
TNCC
Institution
TNCC
What roles are vital to a trauma team
The patient
Team leader-organize team/empower members
core team-technical skills- airway/vascular access
contingency and support survices- RT
Characterisitcs of an effective team
dynamic
interdependent
adaptive
common goal
COMMUNICATION
COOPERATION...
✓ stress- internal force that resists external force
solid organs good at pressure wave energy
air organs better at shear forces
4 main types of traumatic injury
✓ 1. blunt trauma- falls; mvc; trauma
2. penetrating- stabing; GSW
3. Thermal
4. Blast Trauma- bomb
deceleration vs acceleration forces
✓ -Deceleration: injury that occurs as pt slows down
acceleration injury: injury that occurs as a result of other parts of the body stopping before
the organs do (concussion; shearing of aorta)
environment and pathophysiology when MOI is a fal
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