Trauma:

XABCs

Exsanguination, Airway, breathing, circulation

 penetrating traumas

Never remove impaled object, leave in place and stabilize it

Eye injury (impale)

Cover other one too. helps keep the affected eye from moving in the same direction when the unaffected eye looks around.

 traumatic injuries to the brain can sometimes take

Several days to develop based on type of hematoma

Coup injury

anterior injury of the brain

Countercoup

posterior injury of the brain

greenstick failure

One side of the bone is broken, the other side is not, known as a hairline fracture.

losed femur fracture what can we consider to utilize

traction splint . When can’t we use it?  When someone has an open femur fracture!

When we see bright red blood spurting out of someone what do we do first?

Apply pressure .  Then we tourniquet if it doesn’t work.

pericardial tamponade / cardiac tamponade is

fluid builds up around the heart, making it difficult for it to pump

First Degree Burns

Suburn, displayed by red skin and pain.

Second degree burn

 Redness and specifically blistering can appear during a second degree burn, followed with pain.

Third Degree Burns:

The skin appears white, gray, or even leathery, and individuals won’t feel pain directly at the area (not good)

bruising

Ecchymosis