Rapid trauma assessment

Rapid Trauma Assessment is a quick method, (60 to 90 seconds), to identify hidden and obvious injuries in a trauma victim.^[1] The goal is to identify and treat immediate threats to life that may not have been obvious during an initial assessment. After an initial assessment involving basic checks on airway, breathing and circulation, the caregiver considers things like mechanism of injury to determine if a more rapid diagnostic approach is indicated than might otherwise be used.

References

↑ Andrew N. Pollak; Benjamin Gulli; Les Chatelain; Chris Stratford, ed. (2005). Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured (9th Edition). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. pp. 1195–3. ISBN 978-0-7637-4406-9.

First aid

Techniques	Airway management Cardiopulmonary resuscitation Emergency bleeding control

Equipment	Automated external defibrillator Bag valve mask Bandage Dressing First aid kit Nasopharyngeal airway Oropharyngeal airway

Mnemonics	ABC DCAP-BTLS DOTS OPQRST RICE SAMPLE SOAP

Certifications	Certified first responder Emergency medical technician Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician

Topics	Bleeding Golden hour Good Samaritan law Wilderness medicine

Rapid trauma assessment

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