Stabilization and Resuscitation of the Pediatric Trauma Patient 1. Discuss pediatric trauma mechanisms. The mechanisms of injury with pediatric trauma, in general, is something called prime middle death distribution from ATLS or ITLS which helps us classify injuries into the events that may happen or any interventions that may occur based on life. The first peak if we look at the aggregation of the data where death occurs is immediate and these are un-survivable injuries that occur at the time of an incident. These may be fatal head injuries something like a tracheal transaction or aortic rupture where patient seem essentially lifeless and having a disability to regulate themselves. The second peak where the death may occur is called the early to minutes to hours, …show more content…
The sepsis, multisystem organ failure, thrombosis something called trauma triads which are a status of blood flow for perfusion states, heel injury and hyper coagulopathy development can predispose to things that can cause pulmonary embolism so those are the things that make it worse for the patient. 2. Discuss assessment of the pediatric trauma patient. Pediatric burns again could have multiple events such as terrorism or an accident. The big thing that concern first with second and third-degree burns is that we don’t concern ourselves with as far as the treatment. As far as the assessment, airway involvement, see if there are any singed hairs or eyebrows, look at the nose and mouth if there is redness or burns because of a lot of carbonaceous material, are there any change in the patient’s voice inflection that they have stridor already. These are all the clues that make our case to immediately rapid sequence intubation to the patient to secure an airway to prevent the patient from inhalation injury. But if you decide to wait on the airway you are risking it for the patient’s life. For pediatrics, it’s more difficult than an