ATLS protocols — Flashcards

Flashcard 71: Patient losing airway due to neck hematoma → _____

Answer: re-open wound

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Flashcard 72: If there are no soft or hard signs in a penetrating neck injury, what do you do? _____

Answer: Observe

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Flashcard 73: What is one possible adverse effect of fluid resuscitation in a patient presenting with blunt head trauma? _____

Answer: Increases the rate of epidural hematoma expansion

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Flashcard 74: What is the initial management for a tension pneumothorax in a hemodynamically unstable patient? _____

Answer: Needle decompression → tube thoracostomy

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Flashcard 75: Imaging technique for evaluating neck trauma when there are no hard signs? _____

Answer: CT angiography (evaluate vessels)

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Flashcard 76: What is the next step in management for a patient with penetrating abdominal trauma without peritonitis, evisceration, and hemodynamic instability? _____

Answer: CT

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Flashcard 77: If blood is seen at a patients _____, you should suspect a urethral injury

Answer: urethral meatus

Flashcard 78: A _____ is indicated when an emergency airway is required or orotracheal / nasotracheal intubation is unsuccessful / contraindicated

Answer: cricothyrotomy

Flashcard 79: Is placement of a foley (urethral) catheter contraindicated in urethral injury?_____

Answer: Relatively contraindicated

Flashcard 80: An entire leg burn is _____% of the body surface area.

Answer: 18