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CSTR Test Questions With Verified Answers
Name the bones of the skull - Answers✔Parietal x 2, Frontal, Sphenoid, ethmoid, Occipital,
temporal x 2
What injury would cause Racoon eyes? - Answers✔Basal skull fx, Frontal fx
What are signs of a basal skull fx? - Answers✔Frontal - racoon eyes, Middle Fossa - CSF leak,
Posterior - battle signs
What are diffuse intracranial Injuries? - Answers✔Concussion, shear injury, DAI, Anoxic brain
injury
What are focal intracranial Injuries - Answers✔Contusion, Epidural, Subdural, Intraparenchymal
- Focal meaning in one place.
What symptoms should you look for in head injuries? - Answers✔Confusion, combative, altered
cons, obtunded, posturing
Define decoritate - Answers✔Posturing arms folded into chest
Define decerebrate - Answers✔Posturing with limbs extended
Where can definition of trauma patient be found? - Answers✔The Orange Book or American
College of Surgeons: "Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient"
ACS inclusion criteria begins with injury codes and these three criteria? - Answers✔1. Hospital
admission;
2. Patient transfer via emergency medical services transport from one hospital to another
hospital; or,
3. Death resulting from the traumatic injury
What is the trauma registry log? - Answers✔The Registry Log contains a listing of each change,
or update to the Registry software. It is to include the specific changes, software upgrades, and
any changes that are made to the user defined fields, additions and deletions, along with the date
of each event.
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What is data presentation format? - Answers✔The way that the viewer wishes to view the result
of the data compiled. The format identifies how the data is to be displayed such as paper,
website, dashboard, PowerPoint presentation, etc.
What are types of presentation formats? - Answers✔Tables and graphics
What are types of graphic presentation? - Answers✔Bar graphs, pie charts, line graphs, control
charts, dashboards, spreadsheets, scatter grams, pareto chart, radar chart, tree chart
What does a bar graph show? - Answers✔Horizontal or vertical bars proportional to the values of
the data. These are used for quick comparison of information.
What does a pie chart show? - Answers✔Show proportions of a whole or percentage of a whole.
What does a line graph show? - Answers✔Line connecting data points in a sequential order to
show a trend over time.
What does a control chart show? - Answers✔Used to observe performance by studying variation
over time and monitors if a process is within control or out of control limits using upper and
lower control lines calculated using standard deviation or sigma values with the center line
representing the overall average.
What does a dashboard show? - Answers✔A compact visual presentation of critical data, usually
at a higher level, to be easily understood at a glance.
What do spreadsheets show? - Answers✔A collection of data in columns and rows that hold the
data detail -- usually produced in an "Excel" type of document.12
What does a scatter gram show? - Answers✔Displays values for two variables showing the
distribution of the values. 12
What does a pareto chart show? - Answers✔A chart showing data from most to least frequently
occurring information from left to right. These are used to clearly identify higher valued items
(e.g., The highest frequency or priority for resolution).
What does a radar chart show? - Answers✔Radar Chart - (same as spider gram) shows the
relationship between multiple variables with one or more axis.
What does a tree chart show? - Answers✔(Fishbone diagram) - used to identify all of the various
issues/tasks that go into development of a single outcome.
How would you present volume? - Answers✔Visualized by a bar chart (similar to a histogram)
showing different heights depicting variance from comparative items or periods of time.
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CSTR Test Questions With Verified Answers
Name the bones of the skull - Answers✔Parietal x 2, Frontal, Sphenoid, ethmoid, Occipital,
temporal x 2
What injury would cause Racoon eyes? - Answers✔Basal skull fx, Frontal fx
What are signs of a basal skull fx? - Answers✔Frontal - racoon eyes, Middle Fossa - CSF leak,
Posterior - battle signs
What are diffuse intracranial Injuries? - Answers✔Concussion, shear injury, DAI, Anoxic brain
injury
What are focal intracranial Injuries - Answers✔Contusion, Epidural, Subdural, Intraparenchymal
- Focal meaning in one place.
What symptoms should you look for in head injuries? - Answers✔Confusion, combative, altered
cons, obtunded, posturing
Define decoritate - Answers✔Posturing arms folded into chest
Define decerebrate - Answers✔Posturing with limbs extended
Where can definition of trauma patient be found? - Answers✔The Orange Book or American
College of Surgeons: "Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient"
ACS inclusion criteria begins with injury codes and these three criteria? - Answers✔1. Hospital
admission;
2. Patient transfer via emergency medical services transport from one hospital to another
hospital; or,
3. Death resulting from the traumatic injury
What is the trauma registry log? - Answers✔The Registry Log contains a listing of each change,
or update to the Registry software. It is to include the specific changes, software upgrades, and
any changes that are made to the user defined fields, additions and deletions, along with the date
of each event.
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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
What is data presentation format? - Answers✔The way that the viewer wishes to view the result
of the data compiled. The format identifies how the data is to be displayed such as paper,
website, dashboard, PowerPoint presentation, etc.
What are types of presentation formats? - Answers✔Tables and graphics
What are types of graphic presentation? - Answers✔Bar graphs, pie charts, line graphs, control
charts, dashboards, spreadsheets, scatter grams, pareto chart, radar chart, tree chart
What does a bar graph show? - Answers✔Horizontal or vertical bars proportional to the values of
the data. These are used for quick comparison of information.
What does a pie chart show? - Answers✔Show proportions of a whole or percentage of a whole.
What does a line graph show? - Answers✔Line connecting data points in a sequential order to
show a trend over time.
What does a control chart show? - Answers✔Used to observe performance by studying variation
over time and monitors if a process is within control or out of control limits using upper and
lower control lines calculated using standard deviation or sigma values with the center line
representing the overall average.
What does a dashboard show? - Answers✔A compact visual presentation of critical data, usually
at a higher level, to be easily understood at a glance.
What do spreadsheets show? - Answers✔A collection of data in columns and rows that hold the
data detail -- usually produced in an "Excel" type of document.12
What does a scatter gram show? - Answers✔Displays values for two variables showing the
distribution of the values. 12
What does a pareto chart show? - Answers✔A chart showing data from most to least frequently
occurring information from left to right. These are used to clearly identify higher valued items
(e.g., The highest frequency or priority for resolution).
What does a radar chart show? - Answers✔Radar Chart - (same as spider gram) shows the
relationship between multiple variables with one or more axis.
What does a tree chart show? - Answers✔(Fishbone diagram) - used to identify all of the various
issues/tasks that go into development of a single outcome.
How would you present volume? - Answers✔Visualized by a bar chart (similar to a histogram)
showing different heights depicting variance from comparative items or periods of time.
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