Chapter 24- Trauma Overview Flashcards
Arterial air embolism
Air bubbles in the arterial blood vessels
Blunt trauma
Impact of the body by objects that doesn’t penetrate soft tissue or internal organs and cavities
Cavitation
When speed causes a bullet to generate pressure waves, which cause damage distant from the bullet’s path.
Coup-contra coup brain injury
Injury that occurs when forms is applied to the head and energy transmission through brain tissue causes injury on the opposite side of original impact.
Deceleration
The slowing of an object
Drag
Resistance that slows a projectile, such as air
Index of suspicion
Awareness that unseen life threatening injuries may exist when determining the mechanism of injury.
Kinetic energy
The energy of a moving object
Mechanism of injury (MOI)
The forces, or energy transmission, applied to the body that cause injury.
Multisystem trauma
Trauma that affects more than one body system
Penetrating trauma
Injury caused by objects, such as knives and bullets, that pierce the surface of the body and damage internal tissues and organs.
Potential energy
The product of mass, gravity, and height, which is converted into kinetic energy and results in injury, such as from a fall.
Projectile
Any object propelled by force, such as a bullet by a weapon
Pulmonary blast injuries
Pulmonary trauma resulting from short-range exposure to the detonation of explosives
Revised trauma score (RTS)
A scoring system used for patients with head trauma
