ch 24

Question 1

air bubbles in the arterial blood vessels

Answer 1

arterical air embolism

Question 2

an impact on the body by objects that cause unjust without penetrating soft tissue or internal organs and cavities

Answer 2

blunt trauma

Question 3

a phenomenon is which speed causes a bulet to generate pressure waves, which cause damage distance from the bullets path

Answer 3

cavitation

Question 4

a brain injury what occurs when force is applied to the head and energy transmission through brain tissue causes injury on the opposite side of original impact: coup injury occurs at the point of impact: countercoup injury occurs on the opposite side of impact, as the brain rebounds

Answer 4

coup-contrecoup brain injury

Question 5

the sowing of an object

Answer 5

deceleration

Question 6

resistance that slows a projectile, such as air

Answer 6

drag

Question 7

an evaluation tool used to determine level of consciousness

Answer 7

gcs scale

Question 8

awareness that unseen life- threatening injuries many exist when determining the mechanism of injury

Answer 8

index of suspicion

Question 9

the energy of a moving object

Answer 9

kinetic energy

Question 10

emergencies that require ems attention because of illnesses of conditions not caused by an outside force

Answer 10

medical emergencies

Question 11

Trauma that affects more than one body system

Answer 11

mulitsystem trauma

Question 12

injury caused by objects, such as knives and bullets, that pierce the surface of the body and damage internal tissues and organs

Answer 12

penetrating trauma

Question 13

the product of mass, gravity and height which is converted into kinetic energy and results in injury, ucmj as from a fan

Answer 13

potential energy

Question 14

any object propelled by force, such as a bullet by a weapon

Answer 14

projectile

Question 15

pulmonary trauma resulting from short-range exposure to detonation of high- energy explosives

Answer 15

pulmonary blast injuries

Question 16

a scoring system used for patients with head trauma

Answer 16

revised trauma score

Question 17

a path a projectile takes once it is propelled

Answer 17

trajectory

Question 18

emergencies that are the result of physical forces applied to patients body

Answer 18

trauma emergencies

Question 19

a score calculated 1-16 . it is related to the likelihood of patient survival with the exception of severe head injury . it takes account the gas score, respiratory rate, respiratory expansion, systolic blood pressure, and capillary refill

Answer 19

trauma score

Question 20

the eardrum: a thin, semitransparent membrane in the middle eat that transmits sound vibrations to the internal ear by the means of auditory ossicles

Answer 20

tympanic membrane

Question 21

the measure of force over distance

Answer 21

work