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| Air bubbles in the arterial blood vessels |
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| An impact on the body by objects that cause injury without penetrating soft tissues or internal organs or cavities |
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| A phenomenon in which speed causes a bullet to generate pressure waves, which cause damage distant from the bullet's path |
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| Coup-contrecoup Brain Injury |
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| A brain injury that occurs when force is applied to the head and energy transmission through the brain tissue causes injury on the opposite side of the original impact |
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| Resistance that slows a projectile, such as air |
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| Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) Score |
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| An evaluation tool used to determine level of consciousness, which evaluates and assigns point values for eye opening, verbal response, and motor response, which are then totaled; effective in helping predict patient outcomes |
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| Awareness that unseen life-threatening injuries may exist when determining the mechanism of injury |
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| The energy of a moving object |
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| Mechanism of Injury (MOI) |
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| The forces or energy transmission applied to the body that causes injury |
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| Emergencies that require EMS attention becasue of illness or conditions not cuased by an outside force |
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| Trauma that affects more than one body system |
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| Injury caused by objects, such as knives and bullets, that pierce the surface of the body and damage internal tissues and organs |
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| The product of mass, gravity, and height, which is converted into kinetic energy and results in injury, such as from a fall |
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| Any object propelled by force, such as a bullet by a weapon |
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| Pulmonary trauma resulting from short-range exposure to detonation of explosives |
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| Revised Trauma Score (RTS) |
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| A scoring system used for patients with head trauma |
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| The path a projectile takes once it is propelled |
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| Emergencies that are the result of physical forces applied to the patient's body |
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A score that relates to the liklihood of patient survival with the exception of a severe head injury.
Calculates a number from 1 to 16, with 16 being the best possible score
Takes into account the GCS score, respiratory rate, respiratory expansion, systolic blood pressure, and capillary refill |
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The eardrum
Thin semitransparent membrane in the middle ear that transmits sound vibrations to the internal ear by means of auditory ossicles |
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| The product of force times distance |
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Frontal
Lateral
Rear-end
Rotational
Rollovers |
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