Deck 41: Epidemiology of Injury

Question 1

The source of data for trauma research which serves as an essential instrument in understanding trauma both as a clinical and a public health problem.

A) Pathology
B) Pathophysiology
C) Epidemiology
D) Endemic statistical data

Answer 1

Epidemiology

Question 2

What is the most common external cause of hospital admission regardless of gender?

A) Motor vehicular accident
B) Falls
C) Poison
D) Drowning

Answer 2

Falls

Question 3

Which among the following belong to the category of higher risk of death due to injury?

A) Older adults
B) Males
C) Alcoholics
D) All are correct

Answer 3

All are correct

Question 4

The following are patient characteristics in victims of penetrating trauma in Australia and New Zealand, EXCEPT:

A) Older adults
B) Unemployment
C) Firearm ownership
D) Gang membership

Question 5

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is defined as an anxiety disorder following the occurrence of a traumatic event.How long should its symptoms persist for it to be considered as PTSD?

A) >1 month
B) >3 months
C) >6 months
D) >1 year

Question 6

A set of systems regarded as the primary means of ensuring that novice drivers are introduced to the use of motor vehicles in a safe, controlled and low-risk manner.

A) Graduated driver licensing
B) Learner licensing
C) Beginner driver licensing
D) Apprenticeship driver licensing

Question 7

The following are the four basic laws of physics significant to mechanism of injury. Which is NOT included?

A) Newton's first law of motion
B) Newton's second law of motion
C) Newton's third law of motion
D) Law of conservation of energy
E) Law of moving objects

Question 8

A car hits a 9-year-old child pedestrian.The child sustains a combination of injuries referred to as Waddell's triad, which includes the following:

A) Subarachnoid haemorrhage, splenic rupture and pelvic fracture
B) Skull fracture, splenic rupture and cardiac tamponade
C) Skull fracture, supracondylar, patellar and tibial fractures; sternal/rib fractures and femur/pelvic fractures
D) Cerebral contusion, pneumothorax, and tibia and fibula fracture

Question 9

Blunt trauma results from which of the following mechanism of injury?

A) Acceleration, deceleration, compression, axial loading
B) Acceleration, deceleration, compression, high velocity
C) Acceleration, deceleration, compression, inertial resistance
D) Acceleration, deceleration, compression, shearing or direct forces

Question 10

The most common mechanism injury associated with falls is?

A) Acceleration
B) Deceleration
C) Vertical deceleration
D) Vertical acceleration

Question 11

An unrestrained driver of a vehicle driving 80 kph hits a tree. With no airbag deployed, the patient has endured a frontal impact up and over trajectory. Which of the following injury is NOT included?

A) Pneumothorax, haemothorax, flail chest, myocardial contusion
B) Fractured sternum, ruptured spleen or liver
C) Patella dislocation, midshaft femur fracture, femoral head fractures
D) Skull fracture, spinal injuries, cerebral contusion

Question 12

Rear-impact collision results in:

A) Skull fracture
B) Hyperextension of the neck
C) Chest injuries
D) Abdominal injuries

Question 13

A seatbelt worn above the pelvis rim will likely result in the following injuries:

A) Pelvic fracture
B) Neck of femur fracture
C) Colon or intestine and pancreas rupture
D) Myocardial contusion

Question 14

The most common injury sites related to interpersonal violence include the following:

A) Head, back, chest, face and hands
B) Head, neck and face
C) Head, chest, face and hands and legs
D) Head, neck and chest

Question 15

A patient has sustained inhalation injuries following a burn trauma. This injury may result from which three mechanisms resulting in bronchoconstriction and respiratory distress:

A) Carbon monoxide poisoning, thermal injury and chemical injury
B) Carbon monoxide poisoning, upper airway injury and lower airway injury
C) Carbon monoxide poisoning, mechanical injury and chemical injury
D) Thermal, chemical and mechanical injuries