YAS Stepwise Trauma Assessment and

Attachment 1a
YAS Stepwise Trauma Assessment and Management (JRCALC)
1)
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
2)
Scene Assessment
_____ Safety_____ Casualties_____ Event_____ Needs_____ Equipment-
3)
PPE, external hazards
Number of patients?
Mechanism of injury?
Any other services required?
What is required?
2.2
2.3
_____ GENERAL IMPRESSION OF PATIENT
_____ CERVICAL SPINE manual in-line
stabilisation by hand
___ LOC
A – alert
_____
V – responds to voice
_____
P – responds to pain
_____
U – unresponsive
at
same
time
CATASTROPHIC HAEMORRHAGE
(Tourniquet/Haemostatic dressing )
2.4 _____ AIRWAY
Assessment
Management
2.5 _____ BREATHING
Assessment
Management
Open / clear / listen / look /
feel
Position / suction / jaw thrust /
OPA / NPA / LMA / Intubate /
Needle Cric.
Rate/quality (adequate
2
ventilation / O ) look / listen /
2
feel / spO / TWELVE /
FLAPS / Auscultate / Percuss
2
100 % O / Assist vents / Seal
sucking wound / Decompress
T.P.
2.6 _____ CIRCULATION
Assessment Carotid & radial, rate / quality
Ext / Int haemorrhage /
Cap.refill / Skin colour / Temp
Management Stepwise haemorrhage
control. Indirect/Direct
pressure. Consider fluid.
2.7 ____ DISABILITY
AVPU as above
2.8 _____EXPOSE / EVALUATE
2.9
3.1 _____ VITAL SIGNS
_____ Airway
_____ Respiration / Pulse oximetry
_____ Monitor Pulses / BP / ECG
3.2 _____ NEUROLOGICAL EXAMINATION
_____ LOC – AVPU
_____ Pupils
_____ Motor
_____ Sensation
Primary Survey CABC
Problems to be dealt with as encountered
2.1
Secondary Survey
SAMPLE / Immobilisation.
3.3
HEAD TO TOES EXAMINATION
3.3.1_____ Head
_____ Re-assess airway
_____ Racoon eyes (late presentation)
_____ Battles’ sign (late presentation)
_____ Blood / fluid from nose or ear
_____ Mouth (burns / soot)
_____ Pupil size and activity
3.3.2_____ Neck
______ Palpate for steps and/or tenderness
______ Distended neck veins
______ Deviated trachea
3.3.3_____ Chest (repeat TWELVE/FLAPS)
_____ Deformity Contusion Abrasion Penetration--DECAP
_____ Bruising Tenderness Laceration Swelling---BTLS
_____Paradoxical movement
_____ Crepitus / instability of ribs
_____ Breath sounds
_____ Percussion note
_____ Recheck seals over open wounds
_____ Recheck flails
3.3.4_____ Abdomen
_____ Tenderness / Guarding
_____ Pain
_____ Rigidity
3.3.5_____ Pelvis and Extremities
_____ Assume pelvic injury based on mech.of injury
_____ PMS – on all fractures
Stabilization of fractures including possible
pelvic fracture (T-POD)
4)
Handover
A
T
M
I
S
T
Age
Time of incident
Mechanism of Injury
Injuries
Signs and Symptoms
Treatment