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1
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Air bubbles in the arterial blood vessles

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Arterial air embolism

2
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An impact on the body by objects that cause injury without penetrating soft tissues or internal organs and cavities.

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Blunt Trauma

3
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A phenomenon in which speed causes a bullet to generate pressure waves, which cause damage distant from the bullet’s path.

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Cavitation

4
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A brain injury that occurs when force is applied to the head and energy transmission trough brain tissue causes injury on the opposite side of original impact.

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Coup-contrecoup brain injury

5
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The slowing of an object

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Deceleration

6
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Resistance that slows a projectile, such as air.

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Drag

7
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An evaluation tool used to determine level of consciousness, which evaluates and assigns point value (scores) for eye opening, verbal response, and motor response, which are then totaled; effective in helping predict patient outcomes.

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Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score

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Awareness that unseen life-threatening injuries may exist when determining the mechanism of injury

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Index of suspicion

9
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The energy of a moving object

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Kinetic Energy

10
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The forces or energy transmission applied to the body that cause injury.

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Mechanism of injury (MOI)

11
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Emergencies that require EMS attention because of illnesses or conditions not caused by an outside force

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Medical Emergencies

12
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Trauma that affects more than one body system

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Multisystem Trauma

13
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Injury caused by object, such as knives and bullets, that pierce the surface of the body and damage internal tissues and organs.

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Penetrating Trauma

14
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The product of mass, gravity, and height, which is converted into kinetic energy and results in injury, such as from a fall

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Potential energy

15
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Any object propelled by force, such as a bullet by a weapon.

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Projectile

16
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Pulmonary trauma resulting from short-range exposure to the detonation of explosives.

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Pulmonary blast injuries

17
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A scoring system used for patients with head trauma.

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Revised Trauma Score (RTS)

18
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The path a projectile takes once it is propelled

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Trajectory

19
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Emergencies that are the result of physical forces applied to a patient’s body.

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Trauma emergencies

20
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A score that relates to the likeihood of patient survival with the exception of severe head injury . It calculates a number from 1 to 16, with 16 being the best possible score. It takes into account the GCS score, respiratory rate, respiratory expansion, systolic blood pressure and capillary refill.

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Trauma score.

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The eardrum; thin, semitransparent membrane in the middle ear that transmit sound vibrations to the internal ear by means of auditory ossicles.

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Tympanic membrane

22
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The product of force times distance

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Work