PHTLS 9th edition Problem set study Exam Questions and Correct answers Guaranteed Success 2024/2025
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PHTLS 9th edition Problem set study Exam Questions and Correct answers Guaranteed Success 2024/2025
The secondary survey should be accomplished:
a) Never on a critical patient
b) Before transport
c) When time and situation allow
d) Before moving the patient - correct answer When time and sit...
PHTLS 9th edition Problem set study
Exam Questions and Correct answers
Guaranteed Success 2024/2025
The secondary survey should be accomplished:
a) Never on a critical patient
b) Before transport
c) When time and situation allow
d) Before moving the patient - correct answer When time and
situation allow
When approaching a trauma patient, what is the first assessment
that must be made?
a) Exsanguinating hemorrhage
b) Scene safety
c) Airway
d) Breathing - correct answer Scene safety
The most common type of shock resulting from trauma is?
a) Neurogenic
b) Septic
c) Spinal
d) Hemorrhagic - correct answer Hemorrhagic
Which of the following best guides the decision to provide spinal
immobilization?
,a) History and complaint
b) Obvious signs of associated injury
c) Patient's age and presence of pressure sores
d) Mechanism alone - correct answer History and complaint
A 38-year-old male sustains a large wound to his right thigh
while at work. Which of the following actions is the most
important initial step?
a) Obtain IV access and infuse crystalloid
b) Administer supplemental oxygen
c) Hemorrhage control
d) Rapid transport - correct answer Hemorrhage control
You respond to a local bar for an unconscious person. On arrival,
you are met by a police officer who reports that one of their
"regular alcoholics" was found in the alley behind the bar.
On exam, you note the smell of an alcoholic beverage as well as
the following: Patient flexes his arms to painful stimuli, has
bilateral fixed and dilated pupils, irregular respirations at 12
breaths per minute and a BP of 210/100. What condition do you
suspect?
a) Subarachnoid hemorrhage
b) Alcohol poisoning
c) Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
d) Subdural hematoma - correct answer Subdural hematoma
The pre-hospital assessment of the trauma patient begins with
which of the following?
, a) Assessment of scene safety and situation
b) Information provided by the dispatcher
c) The initial assessment
d) The primary survey - correct answer Information provided by
the dispatcher
EMS responds for a patient involved in a motorcycle vs. motor
vehicle collision. The patient is poorly responsive with no
movement of lower extremities and loss of temperature sensation
(hot vs cold) below the T10. Which of the following types of
shock is the patient most likely experiencing?
a) Cardiogenic
b) Hypovolemic
c) Neurogenic
d) Obstructive - correct answer Neurogenic
Which of the following is the best indicator of shock in a trauma
patient?
a) Depressed level of cognition
b) Heart rate of 80
c) Respirations of 18
d) GCS of 15 - correct answer Depressed level of cognition
Which best describes the goal of airway management in a trauma
patient?
a) Perform complex airway maneuvers
b) Perform a surgical cricothyrotomy
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