Emma Holiday Review Flashcards
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Airway
If trauma patient comes in unconscious?
Intubate
Airway
If GCS < 8?
Intubate
Airway
-If guy stung by a bee, developing stridor and tripod posturing?
Intubate
Airway
-If guy stabbed in the neck, GCS = 15, expanding mass inlateral neck?
Intubate
Airway
-If guy stabbed in the neck, crackly sounds with palpating anterior neck tissues?
Fiberoptic Broncoscope, intubate
Airway
-If huge facial trauma, blood obscures oral and nasal airway and GCS =7?
Cricothyroidotomy
Breathing
You intubated your patient…next best step?
Check for bilateral breath sounds
Breathing
You intubated your patient, listen with stethoscope…. decreased sounds on the left? Why? What do you do?
Next step?
Pull back, you have intubated the right mainstem broncus.
Pull back your ET tube.
Chest Xray
Patient in traumatic accident with trauma to the chest.
hypertensive, chest hurts, dyspneic, new murmurs
Traumatic Aortic Injury - get to OR immediately!!
Physical Exam for Pneumothorax… what might we hear?
Absent/decreased breathe sounds on side of pneumo
hyperresonance to percussion
JVD and trachea deviated away from the pneumothorax = Tension Pneumo
Chest Xray abnormal….
Listen and hear decreased breathe sounds, dull to percussion
Hemothorax - Chest tube, let drain
Indication for OR: high output >1.5 liter in chest tube or >200 CC/hr over 1st 4 hours
Chest Xray… Rib fractures in a bad car accident after hitting the steering wheel.
“White out” lung
Tx?
Pulmonary Contusion
Tx: Pulmonary toilet, control pain from rib fractures, coughing, clearing secretions and taking deep breathes
Chest Trauma: pt has inward mvmt of the right ribcage upon inspiration.
Dx?
Tx?
Flail Chest, >3 consecutive rib fractures
O2 and pain control (not opiates - can decrease respiratory drive)
Chest Trauma: pt has confusion, petechial rash in chest, axilla and neck and acute SOB.
Dx:
When to suspect it?
Fat embolism
after long bone fractures (esp femur)
Chest Trauma: pt dies suddenly after a 3rd year medical student removes a central line.
Dx?
When else to suspect it?
Air embolism
Lung trauma, ventilator use, during heart vessel surgery
Cardiovascular
If hypotensive, tachycardiac?
Shock
Cardiovascular
If flat neck veins and normal CVP - what type of shock?
Hypovolemic/Hemorrhagic Shock - most common
Cardiovascular
Next step if you have identified your patient is in Hypovolemic/Hemorrhagic Shock?
2 large bore peripheral IV - 2L NS or LR over 20 min followed by blood
Cardiovascular
If muffled <3 sounds, JVD, electrical alternans, pulsus paradoxus?
Confirmatory test?
Treatment?
Pericardial tamponade
FAST Scan
Needle decompression, pericardial window or median sternotomy
Cardiovascular
If decreased Breathe Sounds on one side, tracheal deviation AWAY from collapsed lung?
Next best step?
Tension pneumothorax
needle decompression**, followed by a chest tube –> DON’T DO A CHEST XRAY!
FACT: Head Trauma
GCS Max Scoring: 15
GCS Min Scoring: 3
Eyes: 4
Motor: 6
Verbal: 5
Head Trauma:
Hematoma, edema, tumor can cause increased ICP
Symptoms?
Tx?
Surgical Intervention?
HA, projective vomiting, AMS
elevate head of the bed, give Mannitol to relieve pressure (water renal function), hyperventilate to pCO2 28-32
Ventriculostomy
Neck Trauma
Penetrating trauma - Gunshot wound or stab wound
Zone 3 - boundaries? imaging?
Zone 2 - boundaries? imaging?
Zone 1 - boundaries? imaging?
Zone 3: above angle of the mandible; aortography and triple endoscopy (trachea, esophagus)
Zone 2: angle of mandible to level of cricoid; 2D doppler +/- exploratory surgery
Zone 1: below level of cricoid; aortography
Abdominal Trauma
If Gunshot wound to the abdomen? (free air under a diaphragm)
DIRECTLY TO OR with Exploratory Laparotomy + Tetanus prophylaxis