Kinematics of Trauma and Episode 180
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Tip of the Week Kinematics of Trauma
Kinematics of trauma is basically how physics apply in the occurrence of the injury. For instance, an object traveling at a velocity of 150 m/s would yield a greater impact on collision as compared to the same object moving at 100 m/s, meaning, more damage can be expected from a car that crashes at high speed.
Emergency responders should be aware of such concept because kinematics of trauma would give them a head start of what injuries to expect depending on the incident. For example, if a fall victim would fall feet first, injuries to find are fractures associated to the lower extremities including spine compression or what they call as “Don Juan Syndrome”.
The cornerstone of assessment is early consideration of kinematics to predict hidden injuries. In the event that the patient is unconscious or physical injuries are absent, familiarity with kinematics allows the responder to institute precautions necessary for possible injuries sustained related to the type of trauma.
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Jamie, one of the favorite lessons I have helped produce for RapidCE.com is about what EMS providers should know about patients with service animals. I would recommend it to any of your listeners. I would also be happy to introduce you to the subject matter expert that contributed content for the lesson. She is a service dog users and instructs EMS providers about service animals. Based on my conversations with her I am concerned about the advice you have given your listeners in this episode on how to handle a service animal during an emergency.
Greg,
Thanks for the comment Greg. I think that providers should spend more time thinking about energy transfers and patient anatomy rather than blindly following protocol based mechanism of injury standards that can never take into account the individual patient and scene presentation.
Greg,
I’ll contact you about the service dogs contact and see if I can get an interview with her set up. Thanks for holding my feet to the fire!
Jamie