ATLS:
PRETESTS
QUESTIONS
&
CORRECT
ANSWERS
,2026
, ATLS: Pretests Q&A 2026
1. Thoracic trauma. Chest tube insertion.
A 22 year old man :is hypotensive and tachycarclic after a shotgun wound to the left shoulder.
His blood after initial N fluid resuscitation, a closed tube thoracostomy :is performed for
decreased 1eft breath sounds
a) reexamine the chest
b) perform an aortogram
c) obtain a CT scan of the chest
d) obtain arterial blood gas analyses
e) perform tranesohageal echocardiography
CORRECT ANSWERS : a.
info: chest tube insertion, p. 108.
2. Musculoskeletaltrauma. Extremity trauma.
A construction worker falls two stories from a building and sustains bilateral cakaneal
fractures. In the emergency department, he :is alert, vital signs are normal, and he :is
complaining of severe pain in both heels andh:is lower back. Lower extremity pulses are
strong and there is no other deformity. The suspected diagnos:is:is most likelyto be confirmed
by
a) ang iography
b) compartment pre ssures
c) retrograde urethrogram
d) Doppler-ultrasound studies
e) complete spine x-ray series
CORRECT ANSWERS : e.
3. Trauma in women.
During the third trimester of pregnancy, all of the following changes occur normallyEXCEPT
a
a) decrease in PaC02
b) decrease in leukocyte count
c) reduced gastric emptying rate
d) diminished res:idual lungvolume
e) diminished elvic ligament tension
CORRECT ANSWERS : b.
info: p. 261.
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PRETESTS
QUESTIONS
&
CORRECT
ANSWERS
,2026
, ATLS: Pretests Q&A 2026
1. Thoracic trauma. Chest tube insertion.
A 22 year old man :is hypotensive and tachycarclic after a shotgun wound to the left shoulder.
His blood after initial N fluid resuscitation, a closed tube thoracostomy :is performed for
decreased 1eft breath sounds
a) reexamine the chest
b) perform an aortogram
c) obtain a CT scan of the chest
d) obtain arterial blood gas analyses
e) perform tranesohageal echocardiography
CORRECT ANSWERS : a.
info: chest tube insertion, p. 108.
2. Musculoskeletaltrauma. Extremity trauma.
A construction worker falls two stories from a building and sustains bilateral cakaneal
fractures. In the emergency department, he :is alert, vital signs are normal, and he :is
complaining of severe pain in both heels andh:is lower back. Lower extremity pulses are
strong and there is no other deformity. The suspected diagnos:is:is most likelyto be confirmed
by
a) ang iography
b) compartment pre ssures
c) retrograde urethrogram
d) Doppler-ultrasound studies
e) complete spine x-ray series
CORRECT ANSWERS : e.
3. Trauma in women.
During the third trimester of pregnancy, all of the following changes occur normallyEXCEPT
a
a) decrease in PaC02
b) decrease in leukocyte count
c) reduced gastric emptying rate
d) diminished res:idual lungvolume
e) diminished elvic ligament tension
CORRECT ANSWERS : b.
info: p. 261.
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