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Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Solutions (100% Verified) 2024
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What is the significance for ABCDE assessment if a person is able to talk? - ANS-They
have a patent airway
What are the clinical signs of airway obstruction? - ANS-snoring, stridor, hoarseness or
no noise at all
What are the techniques for clearing an obstructed airway? - ANS-Suction
Removal of foreign body
Head tilt and chin lift
Airway adjuncts - Guedel aiway
Definite surgical airway
How do you size a Guedel airway? - ANS-measuring from the centre of the mouth
(between the first incisors) to the angle of the mandible
How does tension pneumothorax lead to death? - ANS-A tension pneumothorax
essential acts as an internal one-way valve - allowing air into the chest cavity but not
out.
This results in pressure on the mediastinum, thus decreasing venous return to the heart
and eventual cardiac arrest.
What are the signs of a tension pneumothorax? - ANS-engorged neck veins
Reduced lung expansion
deviation of trachea to opposite side
Hyper-resonant chest
decreased breath sounds on affected side
Management of tension pneumothorax? - ANS-needle decompression in 2nd
intercostal space then insertion of chest drain (definitive management)
Management of open pneumothorax - ANS-Three-sided dressing and then insertion of
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