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Volume 4: Trauma Emergencies
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Trauma and Trauma Systems
Chapter 2: Mechanism of Injury
Chapter 3: Hemorrhage and Sho...
) The purpose of determining the mechanism of injury and the index of suspicion for the trauma
pa1tient at the same time is to allow you to:
A) decide whether to transport the patient.
B) identify comorbid factors.
C) document a complete scene size-up.
D) anticipate your patient's injuries.
Answer: D
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 9-10
Standard: Trauma (Trauma Overview)
Objective: 7
2) Which of the following accounts for the highest number of trauma deaths in the United States
of America?
A) Motor vehicle crashes
B) Falls
C) Assaults
D) Firearms injuries
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 3
Standard: Trauma (Trauma Overview)
Objective: 2
3) Which of the following acts resulted in the development of modern EMS systems?
A) Ryan White Act
B) Highway Safety Act of 1966
C) Good Samaritan Act
D) The Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act of 1990
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 4
Standard: Trauma (Trauma Overview)
Objective: 8
4) In addition to handling all types of specialty trauma, which level of trauma center provides
continuing medical and public education programs?
A) IV
B) III
C) I
D) II
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 7-8
Standard: Trauma (Trauma Overview)
Objective: 4
, 5) Upon arriving on a scene where the mechanism of injury indicates a potentially life-
threatening injury, you should employ which of the following interventions to best help deliver
the care that is needed?
A) Reevaluate the scene size-up.
B) Initiate transport immediately, delaying more extensive care until you are en route.
C) Ask a surgeon to respond to the scene.
D) Call immediately for air medical transport to reduce the "Golden Period."
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 13
Standard: Trauma (Trauma Overview)
Objective: 7
6) Which of the following physical findings indicates the need for immediate transport?
A) Vital signs: systolic blood pressure 80, respiratory rate 8
B) Glasgow Coma Scale score of 15
C) Second-degree burns involving 9 percent of total body surface area in an adult patient
D) Fractured right femur
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 11-12
Standard: Trauma (Trauma Overview)
Objective: 7
7) Which of the following requires immediate transport to a trauma center?
A) A 40-year-old who fell 12 feet from a garage roof with a radius fracture
B) A 36-year-old woman in a motor vehicle crash who has a blood pressure of 100/60
C) A 22-year-old soccer player with lower leg pain
D) A 47-year-old involved in a motor vehicle crash that resulted in the death of his passenger
Answer: D
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 12
Standard: Trauma (Trauma Overview)
Objective: 7
8) As a paramedic, your role in trauma care consists of all of the following, EXCEPT:
A) providing rapid transport to appropriate facilities.
B) promoting injury prevention.
C) providing care to seriously injured trauma patients.
D) providing surgical interventions to stop hemorrhage.
Answer: D
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 3
Standard: Trauma (Trauma Overview)
Objective: 3
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