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    The document contains 15 multiple choice questions about trauma. Question topics include blood loss and hypotension, causes of death in trauma patients, appropriate treatment for a hypotensive chest trauma patient, components of Beck's Triad, most common organ injured in blunt abdominal trauma, modalities useful in treating myoglobinuria, appropriate supplemental oxygen for trauma patients, CXR findings associated with traumatic aortic rupture, best way to assess retroperitoneal organs, most reliable method to confirm endotracheal tube placement, signs and symptoms of epidural hematomas, incorrectly matched cervical spine injury and mechanism, best view for visualizing a Jefferson fracture, location cardiac contusions most commonly involve, and earliest clinical finding of compartment syndrome.

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    The document contains 15 multiple choice questions about trauma. Question topics include blood loss and hypotension, causes of death in trauma patients, appropriate treatment for a hypotensive chest trauma patient, components of Beck's Triad, most common organ injured in blunt abdominal trauma, modalities useful in treating myoglobinuria, appropriate supplemental oxygen for trauma patients, CXR findings associated with traumatic aortic rupture, best way to assess retroperitoneal organs, most reliable method to confirm endotracheal tube placement, signs and symptoms of epidural hematomas, incorrectly matched cervical spine injury and mechanism, best view for visualizing a Jefferson fracture, location cardiac contusions most commonly involve, and earliest clinical finding of compartment syndrome.

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    The document contains 15 multiple choice questions about trauma. Question topics include blood loss and hypotension, causes of death in trauma patients, appropriate treatment for a hypotensive chest trauma patient, components of Beck's Triad, most common organ injured in blunt abdominal trauma, modalities useful in treating myoglobinuria, appropriate supplemental oxygen for trauma patients, CXR findings associated with traumatic aortic rupture, best way to assess retroperitoneal organs, most reliable method to confirm endotracheal tube placement, signs and symptoms of epidural hematomas, incorrectly matched cervical spine injury and mechanism, best view for visualizing a Jefferson fracture, location cardiac contusions most commonly involve, and earliest clinical finding of compartment syndrome.

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    TRAUMA - QUESTIONS

    1. The smallest amount of blood loss that consistently produces a decrease in the
    systolic BP in adults is:
    (a) Loss < 15% of blood volume
    (b) Loss 15 - 30% of blood volume
    (c) Loss 30 - 40% of blood volume
    (d) Loss> 40% of blood volume

    2. The leading cause of death and disability in trauma victims is:


    (a) Head injury
    (b) Back injury
    (c) Abdominal injury
    (d) Thoracic injury

    3. A patient with chest trauma is hypotensive on presentation and c/o SOB. Exam
    reveals JVD, tracheal deviation and decreased breath sounds associated with
    hyperresonance to percussion on one side of his chest. Other than providing O2,
    starting IVs and placing the patient on a cardiac monitor, what is the most appropriate
    initial therapy for this patient?
    (a) Pericardiocentesis
    (b) Tube thoracostomy
    (c) Intubation
    (d) Needle thoracostomy

    4. The components of Beck's Triad include all of the following except:


    (a) Muffled heart tones
    (b) Pulsus paradoxus
    (c) Hypotension
    (d) JVD

    5. The most common abdominal organ injured in blunt trauma is:


    (a) Spleen
    (b) Liver
    (c) Pancreas
    (d) Kidney

    6. All of the following modalities are useful in the treatment of myoglobinuria except:
    (a) Acidifying the urine
    (b) IV mannitol
    (c) Alkalinizing the urine
    (d) Increasing the urine output (by increasing IV fluid resuscitation)

    7. It is recommended that all trauma patients receive supplemental oxygen. The


    suggested FIO2 is:

    (a) >.85
    (b) >.60
    (c) >.50
    (d) >.40

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    8. All of the following CXR findings are consistent with the diagnosis of traumatic
    rupture of the aorta except:
    (a) Widening of the superior mediastinum
    (b) Apical pleural cap
    (c) Deviation of the trachea to the right
    (d) Elevation of the left main stem bronchus

    9. Which of the following modalities provides the best assessment of retroperitoneal


    organs (e.g. pancreas, duodenum)?
    (a) Physical exam
    (b) Diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL)
    (c) Computerized tomography (CT)
    (d) All of the above modalities are equally effective.

    10. Although all of the following techniques should be used when available, the most reliable
    method of confirming ET tube position is by:
    (a) Listening over the upper lung fields for equal breath sounds
    (b) Checking the position of the tube on a post-intubation CXR
    (c) Establishing end-tidal CO2 monitoring
    (d) Seeing the ET tube pass through the vocal cords

    11. All of the following statements regarding epidural hematomas are accurate except:
    (a) Associated parietal or temporal skull fracture is common.
    (b) CT reveals a lens-like, biconvex lesion.
    (c) Signs and symptoms are due to the mass effect of an arterial bleed.
    (d) Pupillary findings typically occur contralateral to the side of the
    lesion.

    12. Listed below are several C-spine injuries and their mechanism of injury. Which is
    incorrectly matched?
    (a) Jefferson fracture: axial loading mechanism
    (b) Hangman's fracture: flexion injury
    (c) Clay-shoveler's fracture: flexion injury or direct trauma
    (d) Unilateral facet dislocation: flexion-rotation injury

    13. The best view for visualizing a Jefferson fracture is:


    (a) Open-mouth odontoid
    (b) Cross-table lateral
    (c) AP
    (d) Oblique

    14. Cardiac contusions most commonly involve the:


    (a) Left ventricle
    (b) Right ventricle
    (c) Left atrium
    (d) Right atrium

    15. The earliest clinical finding in a patient with a compartment syndrome is:
    (a) Pain
    (b) Paralysis

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    (c) Palpable tenseness and tenderness of the involved compartment
    (d) Pulselessness

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