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ATCN - Advanced Trauma Care For Nurses (Qs & As)
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ATCN - Advanced Trauma Care For Nurses (Qs & As)Primary Survey (ABCDE) ✔️Ans - Airway
Breathing and Ventilation
Circulation and hemmorrhage control
Disability (neurological assessment)
Exposure/ Environmental control
What happens if you intubate before treating a pneumothorax ? ✔️Ans -
Simple pneumothorax can turn into a tension pneumothorax from positive
pressure ventilation
When does the secondary survey occur? ✔️Ans - After primary is completed,
resuscitation efforts are made and patient is improving.
Signs and symptoms of a tension pneumothorax ✔️Ans - Respiratory
distress
Tachycardia
Hypotension
Absent breath sounds on affected side
Neck vein distention
Tracheal deviation
signs and symptoms of cardiac tamponade ✔️Ans - Beck's Triad: prescense
of JVD, muffled heart sounds, hypotension
When should a urinary catheter not be placed? ✔️Ans - Before the rectum
and genitalia have been examined
trauma triad of death ✔️Ans - hypothermia, acidosis, coagulopathy
3 signs of compartment syndrome ✔️Ans - Pain, tenseness, no symmetrical
muscles
Indications of a thoracotomy ✔️Ans - Immediate return of > 1500 ml of
blood or significant bleeding in 24hrs
Penetrating anterior chest wounds medial to the nipple line
Thoracic hemorrhage
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