What is the Golden Hour? - answer First 60 minutes after traumatic injury
Describe Platinum 10 minutes: - answer Time that it should take to load and go
Describe the windshield survey: - answer When arriving on scene, scan through the
windshield to look at what is all involved in the scene. This is a crucial part of scene
safety.
Describe the fix it process: - answer If something is injured like a sucking chest wound,
fix it and move on to the next injury. Basically, when you see it fix it.
What are the signs of a Tension Pneumothorax? – answer JVD
Tachycardia
Abnormal or diminished lung sounds
Tachypnea
Hyper-resonance to percussion
Tracheal Deviation
What is the number one cause of airway obstruction? - answerTongue
What is the treatment for an evisceration: - answerApply wet dressing, then apply dry
dressing and secure it.
Difference between compensated and decompensated shock: - answerCompensated
leads into decompensated. In decompensated you will have hypotension, ALOC and
absent or weak peripheral pulses.
Name three types of mechanical shock: - answerObstructive: Cardiac Tamponade,
Tension Pneumothorax, Massive Pulmonary Embolism
What are signs and symptoms of Hemothorax? - answerFlat neck veins
Tachypnea
Tachycardia
Dullness to percussion
ALOC
Hypotension
Three signs of Becks Triad: - answerJVD
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