Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

Content:

Just like you did for answer 1 and the objectives for Purther's textbook work for answer 2 post:

EQ: 

What is most important to rehabilitating a skier or snowboarder after a traumatic injury?

Answer #2 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement): 

In order to rehabilitate a patient after a traumatic skiing or snowboarding injury the first hand responder needs to make sure they know the Mechanism of Injury(MOI) or the Nature of Illness(NOI).

3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example):

1. If you don't know the MOI or NOI then you can't paint a clear picture of what actually happened. For example, if someone was to come flying down a ski run and hit a tree at a speed of 50 miles per hour and they fractured their femur, you would want to figure out the MOI. The MOI in this case would be the skier hitting the tree at a speed of 50 miles per hour. Once you know this you'll have a better understanding of what caused the patient to be in the position that they are currently in. 

2. Knowing the MOI or NOI can help you with your handoff report when you hand off the patient to a higher level of care. You'll be able to give the higher level of care a better picture so they can be better prepared for what they're dealing with. For example, if there was a skier that was in the terrain park and they hit their head against one of the rails and they weren't wearing a helmet, the MOI would be hitting their head against the rail. If you didn't know this because say they were laying 30 feet from the rail, you wouldn't be able to tell the higher level of care what exactly happened and so they couldn't understand the injury in depth. 

3. If you don't know the MOI then you might not see other serious injuries if the patient has multiple injuries. For example, say a skier hit a tree at 50 miles per hour and they had an obvious femur fracture but because they hit the tree they have an internal organ damage. You might not have realized the internal organ damage due to the distracting injury(femur fracture), but if you knew the MOI then you would think "wow that is a serious MOI, there might be more than just the femur fracture." 

The research source (s) to support your details and answer

• My third interview with Kelly Wolff helped me support my answer because she gave me the insight of how important knowing the MOI or NOI as one of the key factors in a traumatic injury really is.
• My first independent component, taking the Outdoor Emergency Care class with Trevor Samorajski helped me come up with this answer because he put a lot of emphasis on Mechanism of Injuries and Nature of Illnesses. 
• The Outdoor Emergency Care: 5th Edition book by  Deborah A. Endly, David H. Johe and Edward C. McNamara helped me come up with this answer because it talked a lot about trauma injuries and making sure you know the MOI or NOI.
• Trauma Care : Initial Assessment and Management in the Emergency Department by Elaine Cole helped me with this answer because she talked about MOIs in car accidents and different trauma accidents(not on a ski hill), but it still put it into perspective for me.

Concluding Sentence:
In order to rehabilitate a patient after a traumatic skiing or snowboarding injury you need to make sure you know the Mechanism of Injury(MOI) or the Nature of Illness(NOI) because you can't paint a clear picture of what actually happened without knowing the MOI or NOI,  knowing the MOI or NOI can help you with your handoff report when you hand off the patient to a higher level of care, and you might not see other serious injuries if the patient has multiple injuries if you don't know the MOI or NOI.