EMT-B CHAPTER 21 Vocabulary

- An impact on the body by objects that cause injury without penetrating soft tissues or internal organs and cavities.

- A phenomenon in which speed causes a bullet to generate pressure waves, which cause damage distant from the bullet''s path.

-- A brain injury that occurs when force is applied to the head and energy transmission through brain tissue causes injury on the opposite side of original impact.

- The slowing of an object.

-- Awareness that unseen life-threatening injuries may exist when determining the mechanism of injury.

-- The energy of a moving object.

-- The way in which traumatic injuries occur; the forces that act on the body to cause damage

- A patient who experienced trauma that affects more than one body system.

- Injury caused by objects, such as knives and bullets, that pierce the surface of the body and damage internal tissues and organs

- The product of mass, gravity, and height, which is converted into kinetic energy and results in injury, such as from a fall.