answers
What triage criteria constitutes trauma base contact? - CORRECT
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
ANSWERS ✔✔-Patients meeting all trauma triage criteria; trauma
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
base station contact shall be made
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\
What is the expected on scene time (under normal
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
circumstances) on trauma calls? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- 5 to |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
10 Mins |\
In the Glasgow coma scale Operational Definitions, Compare the
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
Child GCS with the infant GCS. What are the differences? -
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-All three areas are similar with variances
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
from the adult scale in verbal and motor responses
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
What is the most important part of the GCS if the patient is
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
intubated? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-If the patient is intubated, |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
unconscious, or preverbal, the most important part of this scale |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
is motor response
|\ |\
List the contraindications for utilization of airship transportation -
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- Non decontaminated patients |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
- Violent Patients
|\ |\ |\
- Drunk Patients
|\ |\ |\
- Trauma center less than 30 min
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
, - Traumatic Full Arrest
|\ |\ |\
If the trauma patient does not meet the "Obvious Death Criteria"
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
what base hospital contact must be made for determination of
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
death? what must be recorded? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
Contact a trauma base for determination of death; document
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
asystole in at least two contiguous leads, and no reported vital
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
signs during the EMS encounter
|\ |\ |\ |\
If an adequate airway cannot be maintained with a BVM device
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
and the paramedic is unable to indicate or if indicated, perform a
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
successful needle cricothyrotomy, what shall happen? -
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Transport to the closest receiving |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
hospital. RSI should be performed in a hospital setting and not on
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
scene
|\
If there is associated physiologic or anatomic trauma criteria
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
meeting one or more of the mechanisms of injury, who
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
determines the patients destination? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
base hospital physician, once consulted
|\ |\ |\ |\
What physiological and anatomical criteria must be present for
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
trauma base hospital contact to be made? - CORRECT ANSWERS
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
✔✔- GCS <13 |\ |\
- Need for ventilator support,
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\
- Penetrating injuries to the torso,
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\
- De gloved extremity
|\ |\ |\