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Any dressing that forms an airtight seal?
OCCLUSIVE DRESSING
A dressing applied tightly to control bleeding?
PRESSURE DRESSING
A bulky dressing?
UNIVERSAL DRESSING
Any material used to hold a dressing in place?
BANDAGE
Any material used to cover a wound that will help control bleeding and help prevent additional contamination?
DRESSING
A method for estimating the extent of a burn?
RULE OF PALM
A method for estimating the extent of a burn?
RULE OF NINES
What are signs of full thickness burns?
-CHARRED BLACK
-DRY AND WHITE
Full thickness burns are also known as?
3RD DEGREE BURNS
A burn in which all the layers of the skin are damaged?
FULL THICKNESS BURN
A persons palm is what percentage of the body?
1%
What kind of sings are involved in a partial thickness burn?
-REDDENING
-BLISTERING
-MOTTLED APPERANCE
Partial thickness burns are also known as?
2ND DEGREE BURNS
A burn in which the epidermis is burned through and the dermis is damaged?
PARTIAL THICKNESS BURN
Superficial burns are also known as?
1ST DEGREE BURNS
A burn that involves only the epidermis?
SUPERFICIAL BURN
Burns can be classified and evaluated in three ways?
-BY AGENT AND SOURCE
-BY DEPTH
-BY SEVERITY
An intestine or other internal organ protruding through a wound in the abdomen?
EVISERATION
Is a combination of blood and air in the lung?
HEMOPNEUMOTHORAX
Can be caused when lacerations within the chest cavity are produced by penetrating objects or fractured ribs?
HEMOTHORAX
A type of pneumothorax in which air that enters the chest cavity is prevented from escaping?
TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX
Air in the chest cavity?
PNEUMOTHORAX
An open chest wound in which air is "sucked" into the chest cavity?
SUCKING CHEST WOUND
Movement of ribs in a flail segment that is opposite to the direction of movement of the rest of the chest cavity?
PARADOXICAL MOTION
Fracture of two or more adjacent ribs in two or more places that allows for free movement of the fractured segment?
FLAIL CHEST
The surgical removal or traumatic severing of a body part, usually an extremity?
AMPUTATION
The tearing away or tearing off of a piece or flap of skin or other soft tissue. This term may also be used for an eye pulled from it's socket or a tooth dislodged from it's socket?
AVULSION
Has both an entrance and an exit wound?
PERFORATING PUNCTURE WOUND
An open wound that tears through the skin and destroys underlying tissues.
PUNCTURE WOUND
A cut?
lACERATION
A scratch or scrape?
ABRASION
An injury in which the skin is interrupted, exposing the tissue beneath?
OPEN WOUND
An injury caused when force is transmitted from the body's exterior to it's internal structures?
CRUSH INJURY
A swelling caused by the collection of blood under the skin or in damaged tissues as a result of an injured or broken blood vessel?
HEMATOMA
How much blood can be lost in a hematoma?
1 LITER
Blood almost always collects at an injury site. This results in what?
A HEMATOMA
In a contusion, how long with it take for swelling or discoloration to occur?
IMMEDIATELY/24-48 HOURS
What are the three types of closed injuries?
-CONTUSIONS
-HEMATOMAS
-CRUSH INJURIES
A bruise?
CONTUSION
A closed wound is usually caused by?
THE IMPACT OF A BLUNT OBJECT
An internal injury with no open pathway from the outside?
CLOSED WOUND
The layers of fat and soft tissues found below the dermis?
SUBCUTANEOUS
The inner (second) layer of the skin found beneath the epidermis. It is rich in blood vessels and nerves?
DERMIS
The outer layer of the skin?
EPIDERMIS
What are the three layer of the skin?
-EPIDERMIS
-DERMIS
-SUBCUTANEOUS
What are the major functions of the skin?
-PROTECTION
-WATER BALANCE
-TEMPERATURE REGULATION
-EXCRETION
-SHOCK ABSORPTION
The skins total surface area is over?
20 SQUARE FEET.
The soft tissue of the body include?
THE SKIN, FATTY TISSUES, MUSCLES, BLOOD VESSELS, FIBROUS TISSUES, MEMBRANES, GLANDS, AND NERVES
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