ATLAS 10 2024 NEWEST DETAILED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+.

ATLAS 10 2024 NEWEST DETAILED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+. most serious pediatric trauma is blunt trauma that involves the brain. what is the result of that? - ANSWER- apnea, hypoventilation, and hypoxia occur 5x more often than hypovolemia with hypotension in children who have sustained trauma why is thermal energy loss a significant stress factor in children & hypothermia may develop quickly & complicate the tx of pediatric patients with hypotension? - ANSWERratio of a child's body surface area to body mass is highest at birth and decreases as child matures why are bone fractures less likely to occur in children, even when they have sustained internal organ damage? - ANSWER- child's skeleton in incompletely calcified, contains multiple active growth centers, and is more pliable than an adults what does the presence of skull and/or rib fractures in a child suggest? - ANSWERtransfer of massive amounts of energy *in this case, underlying organ injuries, such as traumatic brain injury and pulmonary contusion the large occiput in children results in passive flexion of cervical spine... how can this be avoided? - ANSWER- ensure the plane of the midface is maintained parallel to spine board in neutral position *placement of a 1 inch later of padding beneath the infant or toddler's entire torso an infants trachea is ~5 cm long and grows to 7 cm by about 18 months... what can failure to appreciate this short length result in? - ANSWER- intubation of right mainstem bronchus, inadequate ventilation, accidental tube dislodgement, and/or mechanical barotrauma what do you do before attempting to mechanically establish an airway in a child? - ANSWER- fully preoxygenate the child what is the most common cause of death and disability in childhood? - ANSWER- injury why should clinicians presume multiple organ systems may be injured until proven other wise in pediatric trauma patients? - ANSWER- blunt mechanisms and children's unique physical characteristics result in multisystem injury being the rule rather than exception why is early transfer of pediatric patients to a facility capable of treating children with multisystem injuries optimal? - ANSWER- majority of children will not deteriorate during treatment, and most injured children have no hemodynamic abnormalities... nevertheless, the condition of some children with multisystem injuries will rapidly deteriorate, and serious complications will develop