Tag: soft tissue trauma
- Blast Injuries ()
Primary Blast Injury Primary blast injury is caused by the blast wave moving through the body. Since only high order explosives create a blast wave, primary blast injuries are unique to high order explosions. The blast wave causes damage to more extensively to air-filled organs. The resulting barotrauma can affect the lungs, auditory organs, the […]
- Animal Bites ()
Dog bites predominate (60 to 90%), followed by cat bites (5 to 20%). Children are more commonly bitten on the head, face, and neck due to their proportionately larger heads and shorter stature, while adult bites are more common on the hands and arms. Dog bites happen more in men and children. The patient usually knows the dogs, […]
- Calculating Body Surface Area ()
The Rule of Nines, also known as the Wallace Rule of Nines, is a tool used by trauma and emergency medicine providers to assess the total body surface area (TBSA) involved in burn patients. Measurement of the initial burn surface area is important in estimating fluid resuscitation requirements since patients with severe burns will have massive fluid losses […]
- Closed Soft Tissue Injuries ()
Contusion A bruise is a mark on your skin caused by blood trapped under the surface. It happens when an injury crushes small blood vessels but does not break the skin. Those vessels break open and leak blood under the skin. Bruises are often painful and swollen. You can get skin, muscle and bone bruises. […]
- More Burns ()
Burns are injuries of the skin involving the two layers: the thin, outer epidermis and the thicker, deeper dermis. 86% of burns are caused by thermal injury, while about 4% are electrical and 3% are chemical. A variety of factors guides the evaluation and management of burns. First is the type of burn such as thermal, chemical, electrical or […]
- Foreign Body In The Eye ()
When a foreign body finds it’s way into a patient’s eyes, the patient is in a world of pain. Objects could include dust, dirt, or chemicals. The patient will complain of pain, tearing, redness, and blurry vision. To flush the patient’s eye, the medics can get the patient to lay flat and tilt the head […]
- Dressings & Bandages ()
Function of dressings A dressing can have a number of purposes, depending on the type, severity and position of the wound, although all purposes are focused on promoting recovery and protecting from further harm. Key purposes of a dressing are: Control bleeding – to help to seal the wound to expedite the clotting process; Protection from contamination – to defend […]
- Prehospital Burn Care ()
Expose the burn The wound must be exposed by removing all clothing from the patient. When melted clothing has adhered to the skin, cut the and remove the clothing from around the affected area. If clothing is not removed from the patient, it will stick to the patient’s burn. Cover with large dry loosely packed […]
- Burns ()
Burns are one of the most common household injuries, especially among children. The term “burn” means more than the burning sensation associated with this injury. Burns are characterized by severe skin damage that causes the affected skin cells to die. Most people can recover from burns without serious health consequences, depending on the cause and […]
- Wounds That Bleed ()
Abrasion An abrasion is a partial thickness wound caused by damage to the skin and can be superficial involving only the epidermis to deep, involving the deep dermis. Abrasions usually involve minimal bleeding. Mild abrasions, also known as grazes or scrapes, do not scar or bleed because the dermis is left intact, but deep abrasions that disrupt the normal dermal structures may lead to the formation […]