SUDDEN DEATH

Sudden Death Trauma Scenarios

The Cases:
Ambulance Message / Handover: M=mechanism, I=injury, S=signs & T=treatment
Medical Assessment: A=airway, B=breathing, C=circulation, D=neurological defecit

10 year old Penetrating Leg Injury
18 year old Motor Cross Rider : Rope Injury to Neck
21 year old Driver : Mini-Minor into Metal Fence
28 year old Abdominal Stabbing
34 year old Army Private: Gunshot Wound to Abdomen
45 year old Construction Worker : Crush Injury
45 year old Metal Worker : Angle Grinder Injury to Right Groin
38 year old Gunshot Wound to Abdomen
40 year old male Pedestrian Hit by a Truck

10 Year Old Arriving in 3 Minutes

Plan A The Injury

Analgesia
Check Tet Tox Status
Remove Dart
Discharge Patient
10 year old Penetrating Leg Injury

Correct

Not every trauma case involves critically injured patients. What this case highlights is a need for common sense. The dart is in a superficial part of the leg, inferior and medial to the knee. There are no major neurovascular structures there. The angle of entry assures you that the knee joint is not invloved.

Now you have seen how the sudden death scenarios work, on with the serious cases!