ADVANCED TRAUMA LIFE SUPPORT (ATLS) PRE-
ASSESSMENT 2024 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS 100%
What is the significance for ABCDE assessment if a person is able to talk? - (correct
answer) They have a patent airway
What are the clinical signs of airway obstruction? - (correct answer) snoring, stridor,
hoarseness or no noise at all
What are the techniques for clearing an obstructed airway? - (correct answer) Suction
Removal of foreign body
Head tilt and chin lift
Airway adjuncts - Guedel aiway
Definite surgical airway
How do you size a Guedel airway? - (correct answer) measuring from the centre of
the mouth (between the first incisors) to the angle of the mandible
How does tension pneumothorax lead to death? - (correct answer) A tension
pneumothorax essential acts as an internal one-way valve - allowing air into the chest
cavity but not out.
This results in pressure on the mediastinum, thus decreasing venous return to the heart
and eventual cardiac arrest.
What are the signs of a tension pneumothorax? - (correct answer) engorged neck
veins
Reduced lung expansion
deviation of trachea to opposite side
Hyper-resonant chest
decreased breath sounds on affected side
Management of tension pneumothorax? - (correct answer) needle decompression in
2nd intercostal space then insertion of chest drain (definitive management)
Management of open pneumothorax - (correct answer) Three-sided dressing and
then insertion of chest drain
What is a flail chest? - (correct answer) 2 or more rib fractures in 2 or more places,
thus resulting in separation of a segment of the thoracic cage
Clinical sign of flail chest - (correct answer) Paradoxical movement of this part of the
chest wall - indrawing on inspiration and outwards movement on expiration
Beck's triad is a constellation of findings indicative of cardiac tamponade. What are
they? - (correct answer) hypotension
ASSESSMENT 2024 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS 100%
What is the significance for ABCDE assessment if a person is able to talk? - (correct
answer) They have a patent airway
What are the clinical signs of airway obstruction? - (correct answer) snoring, stridor,
hoarseness or no noise at all
What are the techniques for clearing an obstructed airway? - (correct answer) Suction
Removal of foreign body
Head tilt and chin lift
Airway adjuncts - Guedel aiway
Definite surgical airway
How do you size a Guedel airway? - (correct answer) measuring from the centre of
the mouth (between the first incisors) to the angle of the mandible
How does tension pneumothorax lead to death? - (correct answer) A tension
pneumothorax essential acts as an internal one-way valve - allowing air into the chest
cavity but not out.
This results in pressure on the mediastinum, thus decreasing venous return to the heart
and eventual cardiac arrest.
What are the signs of a tension pneumothorax? - (correct answer) engorged neck
veins
Reduced lung expansion
deviation of trachea to opposite side
Hyper-resonant chest
decreased breath sounds on affected side
Management of tension pneumothorax? - (correct answer) needle decompression in
2nd intercostal space then insertion of chest drain (definitive management)
Management of open pneumothorax - (correct answer) Three-sided dressing and
then insertion of chest drain
What is a flail chest? - (correct answer) 2 or more rib fractures in 2 or more places,
thus resulting in separation of a segment of the thoracic cage
Clinical sign of flail chest - (correct answer) Paradoxical movement of this part of the
chest wall - indrawing on inspiration and outwards movement on expiration
Beck's triad is a constellation of findings indicative of cardiac tamponade. What are
they? - (correct answer) hypotension
