Fisdap Paramedic Trauma Review Exam Questions with Correct Answers
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Fisdap Paramedic Trauma Review Exam Questions with Correct Answers
For thickness, or third-degree burns, or burns that extend through all layers of the skin and may involve subcutaneous tissue and muscle. The skin is dry, leathery, and often white orchard there's usually a little pain with these...
Fisdap Paramedic Trauma Review Exam Questions with Correct Answers
Assess the patient with tension pneumothorax - Answer-Absence of breath sounds on the affected side, on equal chest rise, pulses paradoxus, tachycardia and dysrhythmias such as progression to ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation, JVD, narrow pulse pressure, and tracheal deviation.
Treatment is needle decompression with a 14 to 16 gauge catheter at least 2 inches long just above the third rib. After decompressing treat for shock and breathing compromise.
Calculate total body surface area burned - Answer-Rule of nines for adults- Head is nine
anterior chest And abdomenis 18, Back is 18, Arms are nine genitals are one and legs are 18.
Rule of nines for pediatric patients Dash head is 12, anterior chest and abdomen is 18, Back is 18 arms are nine genital is one and legs are 16.5 each. Rule of nines for infants - - head is 18 anterior chest and abdomen is 18, Back is 18, arms Are nine, genitals are one, and legs are 13.5.
The trick to remembering the rule of nines for infants, pediatrics and adults is to remember that only the head and legs change. As the head gets smaller in proportion to
the body the legs get bigger. Remember head size as nine for adults 12 for pediatrics and 18 for infants. You can then work out the legs through process of Elimination.
Categorize burn severity - Answer-Major burns include - any burns involving hands, feet, face, major joints, genitalia, or circumferential burns of other areas. 25% of TBSA If
age 10-15 years. 20% of the total body surface area if younger than 10 years or older than 50. Any burns associated with Respiratory injury. Burns complicated by fractures or trauma. Hi voltage burns, chemical burns and burns on Patience younger than five years or older than 55 years that would be classified as moderate on young adults.
Most burn questions deal with major burns therefore to save time those are the only ones listed
First second and third-degree burns - Answer-Superficial or first-degree burns involved only the epidermis. Think sunburn.
Second-degree burns or partial thickness burns: Partial thickness or secondary burns involves some of the dermis, but they do not destroy the entire thickness of the skin. The skin is modeled, white to read, and it's often blistered.
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