Trauma Poss Dangerous Area
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:33 am
I often see that on pager messages. What exactly does it mean???
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Cheersbodyguard wrote:It means the Pt has a traumatic injury and it could possibly life threatening
ie Cut across the inner thigh.....might have hit an artery
cut in head...
these types of injuries
that is correctStretch wrote:Cheersbodyguard wrote:It means the Pt has a traumatic injury and it could possibly life threatening
ie Cut across the inner thigh.....might have hit an artery
cut in head...
these types of injuries
And the poss dangerous area is that indicating its in a serious spot on the patient??? Not dangerous area where the patient is located.
was trying to keep it simplepagertones wrote:actually its classed into three categories:
dangerous eg. neck head(not alert) chest (with dyspnoea)
possibly dangerous eg. torso without dyspnoea head upper limbs groin back etc
non dangerous eg. fingers/toes lower limbs forearms etc..