SOAL POST TEST ATLS Q&A 2023

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Q&A
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1. Cardiac tamponade after trauma
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a. is seldom life-threatening
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b. can be excluded by an upright, AP chest x-ray
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c. can be confused with a tension pneumothorax
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d. causes a fall in systolic pressure of > 15 mm Hg with expiration
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e. most commonly occurs after blunt injury to the anterior chest wall
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2. Which one of the following statements regarding patients with thoracic spine
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a. Log-rolling may be destabilizing to fractures from T-12 to L-1.
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b. Adequate immobilization can be accomplished with the scoop stretcher.
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c. Spinal cord injury below T-10 usually spares bowel and bladder function.
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d. Hyperflexion fractures in the upper thoracic spine are inherently v v v v v v v v



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e. These patients rarely present with spinal shock in association with cord
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3. Absence of breath sounds and dullness to percussion over the left hemithorax
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v are fmdings best explained by
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a. Left hemothorax. v



b. cardiac contusion v



c. left simple v



v pneumothora
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d. left diaphragmaticv



v rupture
e. right tension v



v pneumothorax
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4. A young man sustains a gunshot wound to the abdomen and is brought
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v promptly to the emergency department by prehospital personnel. His skin is
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v cool and diaphoretic, and he is confused. His pulse is thready and his
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v femoral