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| 3337349810 | Blunt Trauma | A blow to the chest that can fracture the ribs, the Sternum, and the (Rib) cartilages. ( concern is internal bleed) | 0 | |
| 3337368622 | Penetrating Objects | Bullets, knives, pieces of metal or glass, steel rods, pipes and various other objects can penetrate the chest wall, damaging internal organs and impairing respiration. | 1 | |
| 3337387540 | Flail chest | A fracture of two or more consecutive ribs in two or more places. | 2 | |
| 3337418233 | Paradoxical motion | The movement of the flail segment is opposite to the movement of the remainder of the chest cavity. | 3 | |
| 3337453004 | Compression | Occurs when severe blunt trauma causes the chest to rapidly compress | 4 | |
| 3337474699 | Flail Chest Assessment | MOA that can cause flail chest Pt will have difficulty breathing pain at injury sight Signs of shock Hypoxia Paradoxical Motion ( Late Sign) | 5 | |
| 3337506478 | Flail Chest Patient Care | Primary Assessment for other life threats Administer O2 Monitor pt resp. volume carefully if Resp. gets shallow assist Ventilation | 6 | |
| 3337601473 | Assume All open chest injuries are | Life threatening | 7 | |
| 3337632133 | Sucking chest wound Pt Signs | Open wound in chest Sucking sound ( may or may not ) pt gasping for air | 8 | |
| 3337650040 | Open Chest wound Pt Care | maintain and open air way seal open chest wound quickly we possible apply occlusive dressing ( 2 inch wider than wound ) High flow O2 Treat for shock Transport as soon as possible consider ALS intercept | 9 | |
| 3376247154 | Cardiac tamponade | When injury to the heart causes blood to flow into the sac surrounding pericardial sac. heart sacs fills up with blood and compresses chambers of the heart to the point where they no longer fill backing up blood into the veins. MOI- Penetrating trauma destended neck vein, narrowing pulse pressure signs of shock | 10 |
