RT Book, Section
A1 Woods, Brian
A2 Lee, Kiwon
SR Print(0)
ID 1101644132
T1 Abdominal Trauma
T2 The NeuroICU Book
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071636353
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1101644132
RD 2024/04/25
AB Emergency  medical  services  (EMS)  calls  into  the  community  hospital  where  you  are  working  to  alert  the  staff  that  they  are  bringing  in  by  ambulance  a  34-year-old  male  driver  who  survived  a  head-on  automobile  collision.  Initial  details  over  the  radio  inform  you  that  he  was  found  conscious  in  the  car.  An  IV  was  started  while  he  was  placed  in  a  cervical  collar  and  on  a  trauma  board  for  transport.  He  is  currently  lucid  and  conversant  with  EMS  staff.  His  vitals  are  BP  100/70  mm  Hg,  pulse  100  bpm,  respiratory  rate  18  breaths/min,  and  pulse  oximetry  99%  on  nasal  cannula.  He  denies  pain,  but  the  EMS  staff  can  smell  alcohol.  Initial  field  physical  examination  revealed  head  lacerations  with  some  bleeding,  but  he  is  moving  all  extremities  and  he  has  no  gross  deformities.