Abstract:
This study was conducted with the objective of studying the predictive power of transportation time to the hospital, injury of severity and body temperature on hemorrhagic shock among patients with severe trauma on emergency room arrival . The sample group was composed of 102 patients with severe trauma diagnosed as patients with trauma in the urgent and emergent phases. Data collection instruments consisted of forms for recording demographic data, transportation time, injury severity, body temperature and Shock Index. Multiple Regression Analysis, using enter method, Statistical significance was set at 0.05. Most of the patients with trauma were males (87.3%) with a mean age of 33.15 years. Most of the patients received blunt trauma (58.8%) usually caused by traffic accidents (52.9%). The trauma patients had a mean transportation time to the hospital of 33.10 minutes, and moderate injury severity score were 59.8 % a mean score of ISS of 23.57 points together temperature lower than 36 Celsius degrees were 54.9 % with a mean body temperature of 36.25 Celsius degrees. The trauma patients (81.4%) were found to have compensate shock levels at SI > 0.8. The findings revealed that Transportation time to the hospital, Injury Severity Scores and body temperature could not predict hemorrhagic shock among severe trauma patients on emergency room arrival. According to the findings, many patients with medium injury severity were found to have shock in early stages with trends toward body temperatures that were lower than normal levels. Hence, the monitoring of trauma patients at risk for advanced shock and the provision of nursing care aimed at promoting shock prevention for patients with trauma are vital roles of Emergency Room nurses.