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TCRN Practice Questions: Trunk Part 1(Thoracic & Abdominal Trauma) Latest
2025
When should impaled objects be removed? - Correct
Answer ✅ Preferably in the OR, under controlled
circumstances.
True or false: Bullet wounds follow a predictable pattern of
injury? - Correct Answer ✅ False: A bullet wound is an
example of a "blast" wound which has an unpredictable
trajectory and must consider path of tissue injury related to
shock/stress waves.
Name six life-threatning chest injuries: - Correct Answer ✅
1. Laryngeotracheal Injury/Airway Obstruction
2. Tension Pneumothorax
3. Open Pneumothorax
4.Flail chest and pulmonary contusion
5. Massive hemothorax
6. Cardiac tamponade
What are the four pathophysiological consequenses of life-
threatning chest injuries? - Correct Answer ✅ 1. Hypoxia
, TCRN Practice Questions: Trunk Part 1
(Thoracic & Abdominal Trauma) Latest
2025
2. Hypoventilation
3. Respiratory/metabolic acidosis
4. Inadequate tissue perfusion
What alternative should you consider with an abusive and/or
belligerant patient? - Correct Answer ✅ Hypoxia (beyond
intoxication of alcohol and drugs)
Is cyanosis an early or late finding of hypoxemia? - Correct
Answer ✅ Late
During a tension pneumothorax the mediastinal structures
shift where? - Correct Answer ✅ Opposite the affected side
A needle thoracentesis is performed where anatomically? -
Correct Answer ✅ 2nd-3rd intercostal space, mid-clavicular
line
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