David Bentley, Dr. Slaughterbeck, Dr. Rippey, Tony McCarron, Gregory Yeager, EMT Team & Kari Bryant November 28th, 2022
What Happened?
To start off trauma week, we always start with an injury. This year we are focusing on the sports medicine aspect of a hospital. First, we were given a demonstration on how this injury will occur. The idea of this demonstration was to show a football play gone wrong. Our patient Connor Mosley, was tackled during the game and openly fracture his Tibia and Fibula.
When this happened, our school athletic trainer, David Bentley, walked out onto the field. while he makes his way to the injured player, he is assessing them. He looks at their body language, the area around them, looks to make sure they are moving. Then, once the trainer sees that it is serious or needs other help, he will put up one fist to call the sideline doctor.
VITALS: while on the scene, the vitals were as follows. 125/84 (blood pressure), 95 (pulse), oxygen was 100%, and respiration was 16.
The Next Step
Next, the patient was taken to the emergency room. Once in the emergency room, the doctor on sight will take another assessment. We were met by Keri Bryant (BSN, TCRN, CEN), an Emergency Room nurse from the USA ER at Hillcrest. With Connors's injury, they applied hare traction to his leg. When applying hare traction, use the measurements of the non-injured leg to make sure the splint fits correctly. The traction allows to reduce the pain and to help with blood flow. The path in which our patient might follow with an ER nurse would look something like this: Receive Patient, Stabilize Patient, Send to Radiology, Return to ED, Continued Care. The amount of attention or importance is determined by different levels in the trauma room. The levels range from one to five.
The next professional the patient will go to will be a radiologist. For this situation, Gregory Yeager spoke to us. He explained the different types of X-rays and what they do. For different severity of injures, they will use different machines, such as Anterior-Posterior (AP) View, MRI, a CT scan, Angiogram, and a C-arm.
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