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TNCC Exam Practice Questions and Answers| Verified and Updated Primary concern when a person cannot stop coughing/clearing their throat following house fire/smoke? - ️️ Correct-Airway/Intubate Lab evidence of cellular perfusion - ️️ Correct-Base Excess (Less than -6 is BAD) Multiple pe...

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TNCC Exam Practice Questions and
Answers| Verified and Updated


Primary concern when a person cannot stop coughing/clearing their throat following

house fire/smoke? - ✔️✔️Correct-Airway/Intubate


Lab evidence of cellular perfusion - ✔️✔️Correct-Base Excess (Less than -6 is BAD)

Multiple people are in the ER of different ages who all go to the same church. They all

have the same symptoms. What is the most likely cause? - ✔️✔️Correct-Biologic

Suspected shock type with a spinal cord injury - ✔️✔️Correct-Distributive Shock (Includes

neurogenic)

Patient has GCS of 3, unequal pupils (one sluggish, one blown), and is posturing. What

is the cause? - ✔️✔️Correct-Herniation

Middle Meningeal Artery - ✔️✔️Correct-Epidural Hematoma (results from collection of

blood that forms between dura mater and skull)

Prior to having a concussion (TBI), the patient had a brain injury that was not fully

healed. What is the cause? - ✔️✔️Correct-2nd Impact Syndrome

Bowel sounds heard in the L chest. What is this a symptom of? - ✔️✔️Correct-Ruptured

diaphragm



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Symptoms of __________________: include muffled heart sounds and hypotension -

✔️✔️Correct-Pericardiocentesis

How should you dress a severed limb? - ✔️✔️Correct-Sterile gauze with normal saline

THEN put ice on it

Amylase level looks at _____________ - ✔️✔️Correct-Pancreas

What should you do if your patient has hyphema (collection of blood inside the front part

of the eye?) - ✔️✔️Correct-Sit HOB up to 30 degrees

Principle that people have to take action after suffering a loss in order to decrease

severity, seriousness, or painfulness - ✔️✔️Correct-Mitigation

What organ is most at risk following a gunshot - ✔️✔️Correct-Liver

8 year old child with longitudinal thigh lacerations - ✔️✔️Correct-Sign of child abuse

Bleeding around belly button - ✔️✔️Correct-Cullen's Sign

What would cause an inaccurate reading from an 02 saturation probe? - ✔️✔️Correct-

Carboxyhemoglobin (increase FiO2 to 100%)

General study of forces and their effects on living tissue and the human body -

✔️✔️Correct-Biomechanics

Study of energy transfer as it applies to identifying actual or potential injuries -

✔️✔️Correct-Kinematics




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Refers to the separation of tissue resulting from a sound and/or hydraulic wave force-

the effect is a crushing pressure wave which creates a temporary cavity, followed by a

rapid and violent closing of the cavity. - ✔️✔️Correct-Cavitation

This rapid motion can lead to crushing, tearing, and shearing forces on tissue -

✔️✔️Correct-Cavitation

Used in OR; does not provide protection against aspiration and not recommended in

patients who have eaten recently. It is a supraglottic airway. - ✔️✔️Correct-Laryngeal

Mask Airway

Single tube retroglottic device inserted into the esophagus and traps the glottis opening

between an esophageal cuff and an oropharyngeal cuff. Designed with 2 ports/lumens

each with a separate cuff. Does NOT provide protection against aspiration and is not

indicated in children. It is a retroglottic airway. - ✔️✔️Correct-King Tube

Types of Shock (4) - ✔️✔️Correct-Hypovolemic, Obstructive, Cardiogenic, Distributive

Hemorrhage is the leading cause. Can result from vomiting, diarrhea, and burn trauma.

Decreased circulating volume --> decreased preload. Therapy includes replacing the

type of volume that was lost. - ✔️✔️Correct-Hypovolemic Shock

Results from hypo perfusion of tissue due to an obstruction in either the vasculature or

heart. Therapy aimed at relieving the obstruction and improving perfusion. - ✔️✔️Correct-

Obstructive Shock




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Two classic examples of obstructive shock - ✔️✔️Correct-Cardiac tamponade and

tension pneumothorax

Results from pump failure in the presence of adequate intravascular volume. Lack of

CO and end-organ perfusion secondary to a decrease in myocardial contractility and/or

valvular insufficiency. Therapy includes inotropic support, antidysrhythmic medications,

and correction or treatment of underlying cause. - ✔️✔️Correct-Cardiogenic Shock

Results from the misdistribution of an adequate circulating blood volume with the loss of

vascular tone or increased permeability. Treatment is to provide volume replacement,

increase systemic vascular resistance with medications (pressors) and possible

antibiotics. - ✔️✔️Correct-Distributive Shock

Examples that can cause distributive shock - ✔️✔️Correct-Anaphylactic shock, septic

shock, neurogenic shock

___________________: Impairs thrombin production and platelet function

_____________ ______________: Impairs thrombin production

_______________________: Results in depletion of clotting factors through

hemodilution and the impaired ability to produce clotting factors. - ✔️✔️Correct-Trauma

Triad of Death

1. Hypothermia

2. Metabolic Acidosis

3. Coagulopathy

Stages of Shock (3) - ✔️✔️Correct-1. Compensated

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