Brady Trauma and Trauma Systems
Terms
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- A physical injury or wound caused by an external force or violence.
- Trauma
- Leading killer of persons under the age of 44.
- Trauma
- Trauma accounts for about ________ deaths per year.
- 150,000
- Deaths from MVC/yr
- 44,000
- Deaths from GSW/yr
- 38,000
- Injury cause by an object breaking the skin and entering the body.
- Penetrating trauma
- Injury caused by the collision of an object with the body in which the object does not enter the body.
- Blunt Trauma
- Serious and life-threating injury occurs in fewer than ___% of the trauma pt's
- 10%
- Trauma is a _________ disease
- surgical
- Hosp that commits resources to address all types of specialty trauma 24/7
- Level I, Regional Trauma Center
- Hosp that commits resources to address the most common traumas with surgical services 24/7 will stabilize and transport the pt to a level I center.
- Level II, Area Trauma Center
- Hosp that commits to special emergency department training and has some surgical capability, but will usually stabilize and transport pt out to a higher level center.
- Level III Community Trauma Center
- In remote areas, a small community hosp or medical care facility may be designated a trauma receiving facility. Will stabilize and prepare pt to be transported to a higher level hosp.
- Level IV Trauma Facility
- The processes and forces that cause trauma.
- mechanism of injury MOI
- Guidelines to aid prehospital personel in determining which trauma pt's require urgent transportation to a trauma center.
- trauma triage criteria
- The anticipation of injury to a body region, organ,or structure based on analysis of the MOI.
- index of suspicion IOS
- What is the Golden Hour
- 60 minutes from the time of injury to the time the pt gets to the OR
- Trauma triage criteria indicating the need for immediate transport. Adult
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-Falls >20' or 3x pt hieght
-Ped/bike vs auto
>5mph
thrown or run over by car
-Motorcycle impact >20mph
-Ejection
-MVC >40mph
-R/O
-death in same car
-Exrication >20min - Trauma triage criteria indicating the need for immediate transport. Pedi
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-Fall >10' or 3x pt hight
-Bike/car collsion
-vehicle collsion at med speed
-pedi ptunrestained - A data retrivieval system for trauma patient information, used to evaluate and improve the trauma system.
- Traua Registry