Itls 9th edition 2025 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

A 23-year-old female fell from a second-floor balcony. Upon arrival, you find her lying in the grass. She responds to verbal commands and your assessment reveals flat neck veins, and normal chest, abdomen and pelvis examinations. Her skin is cool, clammy and ashen; respirations are rapid and shallow; radial pulses are too rapid to count and thready. You place her on the heart monitor and it shows a wide-complex tachycardia of about 280 per minute. You should suspect: A. Hypovolemic shock ...

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A 15 y/o male was stabbed and has an abdominal evisceration. The PT is A/O, BP 112/68, P 94, R18. You should? - Prepare PT for transport & establish vascular access during transport. A 16yo F is rescued from a burning house. She has 25% partial thickness burns, and the nursed areas are hot to the touch. What is the appropriate treatment? - Apply clean water to burned areas for up to 5-10 mins. a 16yoF receives 25% partial thickness thermal burns. You should: - Cool the burn and protect from...

A brief neurological exam consists of what? - 1. pupils 2. GCS 3. BGL A patient who does not have a head injury, and is intubated, manage CO2 levels where? - CO2 at 35- 45 A patient with spinal precautions begins to vomit; how to treat? - 1. tilt backboard 2. suction A pregnant trauma patient with hypovolemia is treat how? - place her on her left lateral side in order to get the fetus off the vena cava A tension pneumothorax is considered what kind of shock? - mechanical Airway man...

34 year old female was struck by a vehicle causing blunt force chest trauma she is unconscious with gasping respiration's almost no air movement a rapid thready carotid pulse and flat neck veins. You should ? - Provide positive pressure ventilation A 25 year old female was stabbed in the left arm she presents with an altered mental status and signs of shock bleeding is controlled by direct pressure and use of a tourniquet. Which intravenous fluid therapy in appropriate ? - Intravenous flui...

blood volume in the pregnant patient increases by how much? - 45%, blunt or penetrating trauma below T4 / fourth intercostal may cause what? - intrathoracic and intrabdominal injuries cardiac output in the pregnant patient increases by how much? - 1-1.5 L in the first trimester. 6 to 7 by late 2nd trimester critical patients how long should on scene time be? - less than 5 min hear rate of the pregnant patient increases how much ? - 10-15bpm how far down does the spinal cord travel? - to L...

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