Kinematics

Question 1

Which act established guidelines, funding, and state level leadership and support for the development of trauma systems?

Answer 1

Trauma care systems planning and development act of 1990

Question 2

What are the three phases of trauma care?

Answer 2

Preincident, incident, postincident

Question 3

What is included in the pre incident phase of trauma care?

Answer 3

Public education

Question 4

What is a level 1 trauma system known as?

Answer 4

Regional trauma center

Question 5

Level 2 trauma centers are known as?

Answer 5

Area trauma centers

Question 6

Which level trauma center is most commonly associated with a medical teaching institution?

Answer 6

Level 1

Question 7

What is the purpose of a level 2 trauma center?

Answer 7

To treat the most common trauma emergencies but only stabilize the most serious and transport specialty cases to the regional trauma center

Question 8

What level trauma center is referred to as community trauma centers?

Answer 8

Level III

Question 9

What is the goal for a level III trauma center?

Answer 9

Stabilize and transport to higher level center

Question 10

What is Newton’s first law?

Answer 10

Body at rest stays at rest, body in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by outside force

Question 11

What is Newton’s second law?

Answer 11

Force energy equals half the mass times velocity squared

Question 12

_____ kills more than ____.

Answer 12

Speed

Weight

Question 13

What does more damage? A buss at 40MPH or a sports car at 90MPH?

Answer 13

Sports car

Question 14

______ is defined as energy change.

Answer 14

Kinematics

Question 15

Velocity is ____.

Answer 15

Speed

Question 16

What is the term for the first hour after a insult to the body which results in the best outcome if definitive care is delivered?

Answer 16

Golden hour

Question 17

EMS is assigned _____ minutes on scene.

Answer 17

10

Question 18

What is the first phase of a crash?

Answer 18

Car metal hits tree

Question 19

What is the second phase of a crash?

Answer 19

Skeletal system hits car metal

Question 20

What is the third phase of the crash?

Answer 20

Organs hit skeletal

Question 21

What is the 4th phase of the crash?

Answer 21

Person gets struck by items in car not secured

Question 22

How many phases are present during a fall?

Answer 22

2

Question 23

What are the two types of trauma?

Answer 23

Penetrating and blunt

Question 24

What is the most common form of trauma?

Answer 24

Blunt

Question 25

What type of collision leads to organ shearing?

Answer 25

Frontal collision

Question 26

What type of collision is the cause for whiplash?

Answer 26

Read

Question 27

What type of collision is the most fatal?

Answer 27

Lateral

Question 28

What type of collision is the most fatal if ejected or not restrained?

Answer 28

Rollover

Question 29

The ___ the vehicle, the more likely severe injuries will result.

Answer 29

Smaller

Question 30

Which pathway of frontal collisions result in more head and chest trauma?

Answer 30

Up and over

Question 31

Which pathway of a frontal collision results in a higher mortality rate?

Answer 31

Up and over

Question 32

If a person is within ____ inches of an airbag result is fatal.

Answer 32

10

Question 33

Kids in a pedestrian injury are likely to go which direction?

Answer 33

Down and under

Question 34

What must be considered on all falls?

Answer 34

What part hit first, how hard was the surface they landed on, and how high

Question 35

What occurs in the first wave of a blast?

Answer 35

Pressure/shock wave

Question 36

What occurs in the second wave of a blast?

Answer 36

Flying objects

Question 37

What occurs in the third phase of a blast?

Answer 37

Victim is thrown from blast

Question 38

The greater the ___, the more direct path and allows for better accuracy.

Answer 38

Velocity

Question 39

Which type of gun results in more local damage to where the bullet traveled?

Answer 39

Handguns

Question 40

____ is tolerated better by fluid and air filled spaces than solid organs.

Answer 40

Cavitation

Question 41

What happens when mushrooming bullets?

Answer 41

Bullet hits tissue and the tip of the bullet slows and the butt is traveling faster

Question 42

___ a bullet will flatten the bullet and make more surface area resulting in more damage

Answer 42

Mushrooming

Question 43

Which act resulted from the first studies of trauma and paved the foundation for modern EMS?

Answer 43

Highway safety act of 1966

Question 44

Which, an exit or entrance wound, reflect the potential energy better?

Answer 44

Exit wounds

Question 45

What is the problem when a bullet yaws or tumbled in the air?

Answer 45

Accuracy decreases along with distance

Question 46

__ velocity weapons limit injury to areas in which the object comes directly into contact with.

Answer 46

Low

Question 47

What are examples of medium velocity weapons?

Answer 47

Handguns and small rifles

Question 48

What are examples of high velocity weapons?

Answer 48

Hunting rifles

Question 49

What is the law of inertia?

Answer 49

Newton's first law

Question 50

Newton's first law explains?

Answer 50

What happens during blunt trauma

Question 51

Newton's second law explains?

Answer 51

The forces at work during a collision

Question 52

Which type of trauma is the most common cause of trauma death and disability?

Answer 52

Blunt

Question 53

What is inertia?

Answer 53

Tendency of an object to remain at rest or remain in external force

Question 54

What is kinetic energy?

Answer 54

The energy of an object in motion