On Tornados: Storm Exposure, Coping Styles, and Resilience
N % Mean SD Minimum Maximum Sex Male 37 42.5 Female 50 57.5 Race/ethnicity African American 4 4.6 Asian American 2 2.3 Caucasian 77 88.5 Native American 1 1.1…
Families and Faith-based Communities After a Disaster: Successes and Failures in the Wakes of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Katie E. Cherry (ed.)Traumatic Stress and Long-Term Recovery10.1007/978-3-319-18866-9_14 14. Families and Faith-based Communities After a Disaster: Successes and Failures in the Wakes of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Loren D. Marks2 ,…
Trauma Ultrasound: Beyond the FAST Examination
Fig. 22.1 Dark or anechoic fluid surrounds the relatively echogenic lung Fig. 22.2 The left image shows an ultrasound with no fluid in the chest; the spine seems to end…
Trauma Team Decision-Making
Fig. 16.1 First principles: Trauma care can be thought of as a coordinated effort to minimize the duration of impaired oxygen delivery and its far-reaching consequences. The major options for…
Trauma in the Pediatric Patient
Age (year) HR/min RR/min Newborn 100–180 30–60 0.5 80–160 25–40 1–5 80–130 20–30 6 75–115 18–25 8 70–110 18–25 10 70–110 15–20 12 F 70–110, M 65–105 12–20 14 F…
Critical Incident Team Dynamics and Logistics
Fig. 27.1 Crisis characteristic First, confusion is a hallmark of crisis in that there is information and plan disarray, and crises are unclear in nature and course. Confusion impedes obtaining…
Imaging in the Stable Trauma Patient
Fig. 24.1 Canadian C-spine rule. Abbreviations: Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), Motor Vehicle Collision (MVC), Emergency Department (ED). (Adapted from Vaillancourt et al. Evaluation of the safety of c-spine clearance by…
Trauma and Surgical Capabilities for Space Exploration
Fig. 33.1 Extravehicular activity during STS-117 to repair the damaged thermal blanket using a surgical staple gun Parabolic Testing Numerous procedures were validated in human and animal studies on the…
Basic Trauma Ultrasound
Fig. 21.1 Pericardial view of the FAST examination. Normal examination (a) contrasted with a positive study (b) with anechoic fluid visible within the pericardial space (arrow) When the sonographer cannot…
Designing Multidisciplinary Simulations
Optimal simulation requires realistic settings (the area used to represent the clinical environment), able facilitators (those involved in the design and administration of the simulation), and skilled debriefers (experts in…
