Gunshot Wound Management
- Mandatory reporting requirements
- Abuse and assault
- Child abuse -- neglect
- Elder abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Criminality
- Sexual assault
- Penetrating Trauma
- Gunshot
- Stab wounds
- Abuse and assault
- Simple Pneumothorax
- Pathophysiology
- Review knowledge from previous levels
- Defect in chest wall allow air to enter pleural space
- Most common from gunshot wound
- Some low velocity wounds self-seal not allow atmospheric air into the chest but air from inspiration into the chest can occur in the same patient
- If chest wall hole is 2/3 size of trachea, more air will enter from the atmosphere – sucking sound will be present
- With large holes air enters both the trachea and the hole rapidly collapsing the lung
- Delayed or improper treatment will lead to tension pneumothorax with large open wounds
- Pathophysiology
- Penetrating trauma
- High velocity
- Medium velocity
- Low velocity
Includes general overview of how to manage a gunshot wound
Reviews different types of bandages that are currently being used to treat these wounds
Content Creator: Madison Browning
CAPCE Course Number: 18-EMTP-F3-2209
Total CE Hours: 0.5
Level: Advanced
NJ Course Number: 1575133604987
EMT-CE uses the NEMSES guidelines as the foundation for every course outline.