Trauma
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Revamped triage criteria streamline decision making and relieve the burden on hospital systems
Approach the patient with an intentional primary and secondary survey to avoid letting painful and gruesome wounds distract from life-threatening injuries
Avoiding the 3 “H bombs” in patients with TBI significantly improves survival
EMS, fire and hospital personnel describe interstate collision, patient entrapment and field amputation to save a man pinned inside his truck cab by 80,000 pounds of logs
Responders were attempting to extricate a driver when a log from one of the trucks trapped the man
Test your ability to apply the START algorithm to a collection of simulated MCI patients
This damage can result in long-term impairment, such as behavioral abnormalities, reduced impulse control, emotional outbursts, violence and even suicide
Tessie Smith was responding to a call in March when her ambulance was struck head-on by an impaired driver
The health system is also hoping to place bleeding control kits — including tourniquets, gloves and compressed gauze — beside automatic defibrillator boxes in public
RSI can be lifesaving when appropriately applied or deadly if not performed with a high-level of proficiency and accuracy
How will you care for a teenager who intentionally asphyxiated himself and is now unresponsive with agonal respirations?
Paramedics and doctors brought in fake body parts to show staffers of a school district how to tie tourniquets and pack open wounds with whatever they have
Your patient has an apparent hip fracture after a fall and needs to be packaged for transport; did you make the right call?
Decisions made in the prehospital setting can significantly improve outcomes for patients with orthopedic trauma
Law enforcement and SAR K-9s are public safety personnel who may require the emergency care of EMS providers
The 55-year-old man used his cellphone to report the attack and was taken to a hospital for treatment
A specially trained group of emergency physicians responds with EMS providers to assist with care, build relationships and improve patient outcomes
Here’s an example from the annals of “you can’t make this stuff up”
Watch for these signs in yourself, your co-workers and try some of these tips to manage the traumatic stress of EMS work
Joseph Tanner, a trauma nurse, instructed bystanders to use the leash of his surfboard as a tourniquet until EMS arrived
Prehospital ultrasound, the latest patient assessment technology to transition from the hospital to EMS, discussed at EMS World Expo
Types and frequency of traumatic injury secondary to marijuana intoxication described at EMS World Expo World Trauma Symposium
Crush injury from structure collapse and EMS treatment priorities described at EMS World Expo World Trauma Symposium
The agency is one of two in the nation to administer blood transfusions
Our co-hosts discuss a scenario about a mall stabbing and how to stop bleeding without getting grossly contaminated
You responded as the first-in ambulance on a suspected active shooting scene; did you make the right call?
You are dispatched to a law office for multiple shooting victims
Trauma care experts are increasingly focusing on ways to help civilian victims of violence avoid bleeding to death at the scene
The weapon “narrowly missed” his carotid artery, but the medic finished his shift after receiving treatment
The rapper was 25 when he was shot Sept. 7, 1996.
A woman suffered a gruesome in-home accident and couldn’t stop the bleeding on her own
Cypress Creek medics believe the patient would not have made it to the hospital alive without the transfusion
