Trauma Basics

5. Most common mechanism of traumatic injury
7. Puffiness or crackling in tissue surrounding a chest tube
8. Accumulation of air the in the pleural space
10. Brrr. Part of the trauma diamond of death
13. this binds to citrate leaving less available causing impaired cardiac contractility and vasoconstriction, worsening acidosis
15. Narrowing of blood vessels
18. Spinal Cord injury without radiographic abnormality
19. Humans have 12 pairs of these
20. bleeding between the dura mater and the subarachnoid membrane (two words)

1. A type of blood cell that plays a role in clot formation; am important part of balanced MTP
2. Trauma to more than one body part
3. Noninvasive measurement of the partial pressure of CO2 in exhaled breath expressed as the concentration over time
4. Loss of sensation in some part of the body
6. Collection of blood in the pleural space
9. Part of the trauma nursing process, after your patient arrives, this finding will prompt reprioritization from ABC to CABC
11. May is ___ awareness month
12. Carries blood back to the heart
13. Also known as a mild TBI
14. The opposite of chronic
16. Antibiotics should be administered within 60 minutes for this type of fracture
17. Scale used to describe LOC; ideally documented during triage