Exam 4: Trauma and Trauma Systems

Which of the following is MOST likely to occur as a result of rapid deceleration without actual contact between the patient's body and the interior of the vehicle?

Which of the following is the most important priority when caring for a patient with a shallow-water diving injury?

All of the following are components of the revised trauma score, EXCEPT:

The two factors that refer to the rate of change of speed are:

What percentage of drowning victims are male?

When providing fluid resuscitation for a 1-year-old child with hypovolemia from a head injury, the goal is to maintain a systolic blood pressure of:

The most common arrhythmia seen in hypothermia is:

According to the American Heart Association, if a hypothermic patient who is in cardiac arrest does not respond to initial defibrillation and initial drug therapy, subsequent defibrillation and medication administration should be avoided until the patient's core temperature is about ________ degrees F or higher.

Your patient is a 21-year-old man with a single, small-caliber gunshot wound to the left anterior chest, just lateral to the sternum at the fourth intercostal space. Bleeding from the wound is minimal. The patient is initially anxious, combative, and diaphoretic. Initial vital signs include a heart rate of 100, respirations of 20, and a blood pressure of 110/80. Breath sounds are clear bilaterally and equal. En route, the patient becomes quieter but still restless. The heart rate increases to 120, respirations are 24, blood pressure 106/88, and breath sounds remain clear and equal. The patient has also developed significant JVD. You are 15 minutes from a Level I trauma center and 5 minutes away from a large community hospital. You should:

If you were to design a bullet to have the highest energy exchange, what would you do?

Which of the following is TRUE of the elderly trauma patient?