Blog 18: Third Answer

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Just like you did for answer 1 and 2 post your:

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

Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*: In order to rehabilitate a patient the first hand responder needs to triage the patients correctly.

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

• Triaging patients will help the first hand responder know the most severe injured patient. In a mass casualty accident there are multiple patients to deal with and the first hand responder needs to know which patient is the most severe in order to decide the order of treatment. For example, if there was a ski accident involving three skiers, where one hit a tree and had internal damage, another broke their arm, and the last one is unconscious, you would triage the patients from most severe to least severe which would be the skier that hit the tree, the unconscious skier, and then the skier that broke their arm. 
• Triaging patients will help the first hand responder know who to take care of first. Triaging means the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties. In order to triage you need to know the patient's needs or concerns and the severity of their injuries. For example, if you use the same example from the first detail once the first hand responder decides who has the most severe injury they deal with that patient first until more help arrives. 
• Triaging patients will help the first hand responder know where to send each patient. For example, if you use the example from the first detail the first hand responder would send the unconscious patient and the patient that hit the tree to a higher level trauma center than the skier that broke their arm. 

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

• 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 triaging patients.
• 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 how to triage patients.
• Nurse to Nurse Trauma Care by Donna Nayduch helped me come up with this answer because this book is all about trauma patients and learning how to help them.

Concluding Sentence: In order to rehabilitate a patient the first hand responder needs to triage the patients correctly because triaging patients will help the first hand responder know the most severely injured patient, who to take care of first, and know where to send each patient.