CAISS ASSESSMENT TEST QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
What is included in the AIS External chapter? - Answer-External soft tissue injuries,
burns and other traumtic events like electrical injury, frostbite and hypothermia.
What descriptors are in the AIS external chapter? - Answer-Abrasion
Contusion
Laceration
Avulsion
Degloving
Penetrating
Burn
Define Abrasion - Answer-A rubbed or scraped area on the skin or mucous membrane
caused by contact with a rough surface or object.
Define Contusion. - Answer-A black and blue mark resulting from blunt force which
causes tiny underlying blood vessels to burst and leak blood into the skin without
causing a break in the skin
Define Laceration. - Answer-A tear or ripping apart of tissues resulting from blunt force
or penetrating trauma.
What is a superficial laceration. - Answer-Ripping or tearing of the epidermis and dermis
What is a Major laceration? - Answer-Ripping or tearing of the deeper layers involving
the subcutaneous muscle and tissue
Define Avulsion. - Answer-Ripping or tearing away all the layers of the skin from
underlying tissues.
Define Degloving. - Answer-Traumatic removal of skin and subcutaneous tissue
separating tissue planes from the blood supply.
What is a Morel-Laveallee Lesion? - Answer-It is a type of degloving that is closed. It is
the separation of subcutaneous tissue from the underlying fascia an muscle, causing a
cavity to fill with hematoma and liquefied fat.
When is AIS coding of skin injuries appropriate? - Answer-When the diagnosis of
multiple injuries is used but there is no further information as to the location.
What is used to assign TBSA - Answer-Total Body Surface Areas is assigned by using
the Rule of 9's.
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
What is included in the AIS External chapter? - Answer-External soft tissue injuries,
burns and other traumtic events like electrical injury, frostbite and hypothermia.
What descriptors are in the AIS external chapter? - Answer-Abrasion
Contusion
Laceration
Avulsion
Degloving
Penetrating
Burn
Define Abrasion - Answer-A rubbed or scraped area on the skin or mucous membrane
caused by contact with a rough surface or object.
Define Contusion. - Answer-A black and blue mark resulting from blunt force which
causes tiny underlying blood vessels to burst and leak blood into the skin without
causing a break in the skin
Define Laceration. - Answer-A tear or ripping apart of tissues resulting from blunt force
or penetrating trauma.
What is a superficial laceration. - Answer-Ripping or tearing of the epidermis and dermis
What is a Major laceration? - Answer-Ripping or tearing of the deeper layers involving
the subcutaneous muscle and tissue
Define Avulsion. - Answer-Ripping or tearing away all the layers of the skin from
underlying tissues.
Define Degloving. - Answer-Traumatic removal of skin and subcutaneous tissue
separating tissue planes from the blood supply.
What is a Morel-Laveallee Lesion? - Answer-It is a type of degloving that is closed. It is
the separation of subcutaneous tissue from the underlying fascia an muscle, causing a
cavity to fill with hematoma and liquefied fat.
When is AIS coding of skin injuries appropriate? - Answer-When the diagnosis of
multiple injuries is used but there is no further information as to the location.
What is used to assign TBSA - Answer-Total Body Surface Areas is assigned by using
the Rule of 9's.
