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| What has emerged as the primary cause of death and disability in people between ages 1 and 44 years? |
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| What is the acute physiologic and structural change (injury) that occurs in a patient's body when an external source of energy affects the body beyond its ability to sustain and dissipate it? |
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| What are the top five causes of trauma death? |
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| MVC, Falls, Poisonings, Burns, and Drownings 1483 |
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| What are the external sources of energy that produce different kinds of trauma? |
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| Mechanical, Chemical, Thermal, Electrical, and Barometric 1483 |
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| What is the energy that results from motion (kinetic) or that is stored in an object (potential)? |
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| What is the energy associated with bodies in motion, expressed mathematically as half the mass times the square of the velocity? |
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| What is the amount of energy stored in an object, the product of mass, gravity, and height, that is converted into kinetic energy and results in injury? |
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| What is the energy released as a result of a chemical reaction and can be found in an explosive or an acid or even from a reaction to an ingested or medically delivered agent or drug? |
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| What comes in the form of high-voltage electrocution or a lightning strike? |
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| What can result from sudden and radical changes in pressure, as can occur during scuba diving or flying? |
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| What is the study of the physiology and mechanics of a living organism using the tools of mechanical engineering? |
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| What studies the relationship among speed, mass, direction of the force, and, for paramedics, the physical injury caused by speed, mass, and force? |
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| What can help you predict injury patterns found in a patient? |
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| Knowledge of Kinetics 1484 |
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| What is an impact on the body by objects that cause injury without penetrating soft tissues or internal organs and cavities? |
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| What is the way in which traumatic injuries occur; the forces that act on the body to cause damage? |
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| Mechanism of Injury (MOI) 1484 |
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| What is anticipating the possibility of specific types of injury? |
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| What is the distance an object travels per unit time? |
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| What is the rate of change in velocity; speeding up or slowing down? |
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| What is the downward acceleration that is imparted to any object moving toward the earth caused by the effect of the earth's mass? |
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| What is the angle at which an object hits another? |
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| What states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed; it can only change form? |
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| Law of Conservation of Energy 1486 |
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| What states that a body at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an outside force? |
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| Newton's First Law of Motion 1486 |
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| What states that the force that an object can exert is the product of its mass times its acceleration? |
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| Newton's Second Law of Motion 1486 |
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| What is slowing down or slowing to a stop? |
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| What is the human limit to deceleration? |
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| What refers to injuries in which the tissues are not penetrated by an external object? |
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| In 2009, how many people died each day from a motor vehicle crash? |
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| Average of 93 per day 1487 |
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| What injuries are produced by a sudden stop of a body's forward motion? |
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| What is a tearing away or forcible separation? |
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| What is an applied force or pressure exerted against the surface and layers of the skin as tissue slide in opposite but parallel planes? |
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| What is the most common site of deceleration injury in the chest? |
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| What is a condition resulting from multiple consecutive rib fractures (two or more ribs broken in two or more places), in which the chest wall moves paradoxically (opposite of normal) with respirations? |
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| What is an injury to the cervical vertebrae or their supporting ligaments and muscles, usually resulting from sudden acceleration or deceleration? |
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| What refers to the pattern of automobile pedestrian injuries in children and people of short stature? |
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| What refers to the pattern of automobile pedestrian injuries in children and people of short stature? |
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| What is the group of potential injuries from a vertical fall to a standing position? |
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| Don Juan Syndrome or Lover's Leap 1497 |
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| What is a fracture of the wrist? |
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| What involves a disruption of the skin and underlying tissues in a small, focused area? |
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| What is the most common sources of penetrating injuries in the United States? |
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| What is the point at which a penetrating object enters the body? |
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| What is a bursting inward? |
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| What is the path of crushed tissue produced by a missile traversing part of the body? |
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| What is the tissue displacement that occurs as a result of low-displacement shock waves that travel at the speed of sound in tissue? |
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| What is cavity formation? |
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| What is a primary mechanism of tissue disruption from certain rifles in which pieces of the projectile break apart, allowing the pieces to create their own separate paths through tissues? |
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| Missile Fragmentation 1499 |
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| What is the point at which a penetrating object leaves the body, which may or may not be in a straight line from the entry wound? |
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| What can also be generated by pieces of bone, teeth, buttons, or other objects encountered in the projectile's path as it enters the body? |
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| What is the leading edge of an explosion pressure blast wave? |
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| What refers to the phase of the explosion in which there is a pressure front higher than atmospheric pressure? |
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| What is the shattering effect of a shock wave and its ability to cause disruption of tissues and structures? |
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| What refers to the phase in which pressure is less than atmospheric; it may last 10 times as long as the positive wave pulse? |
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| What is delaminating or breaking off into chips and pieces? |
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| What is pulmonary trauma resulting from short-range exposure to the detonation of high explosives? |
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| Pulmonary Blast Injuries 1502 |
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| What are air bubbles in the arterial blood vessels? |
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| Arterial Air Embolism 1502 |
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| What describes injuries that involve several body systems? |
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| What is used to determine the likelihood of patient survival, which is calculated on a scale of 1 to 16, with 16 being the best possible score? |
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| What is a physiological scoring system used to assess injury severity in patients with head trauma? |
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| Revised Trauma Score (RTS) 1503 |
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