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PHTLS ExamQuestions and
Complete Answers
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Denning [Date] [Course title]
,What is the NSC - Answer: National Security Council
Main goal of PHTLS - Answer: Reduce mortality and injury
4 components of critical thinking in phtls - Answer: Plan, initiate, reassess, adjust
Is PHTLS based on how provider chooses to apply care (preference) or robotic protocol - Answer:
Preference
Before the event (pre event) is: - Answer: Preventable
Three stages of post event injury - Answer: 1st within 1 hour
2nd within few hours
3rd days to weeks
The golden period is how long? - Answer: Within 1st hour (golden hour)
3 phases of communication - Answer: Pre arrival, verbal report (turnover), documentation
Three observations of scene management - Answer: General impression
Cause and results
Observe family and bystanders
What is XABCDE - Answer: Insanguination
Airway
Breathing
Circulation
Disability (neuro)
Expose/ environment
, Primary survey in PHTLS - Answer: Rapid overview
Resp
Circulation
Neuro
General impression should take a few seconds
Best dressing to use for direct oressure - Answer: Hemostatic (clots quicker)
Regular gauze can take 10 minutes for clotting
Don't relieve pressure to check
2 ways to open airway in traina - Answer: Trauma chin lift or jaw thrust
Maintain 02 sat above what in trauma? - Answer: 94%
Circulation checked by what 2 means? - Answer: Peripheral pulses
Skins
5 sites where massive hemorrhage may occur - Answer: Chest
Abdomen
Pelvis
Retro peritoneal
Extremities
If patient is combative or confused assume what? - Answer: Hypoxic or brain injury
4 reasons for ALOC in trauma - Answer: Hypoxia
CNS injury
Drugs
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