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What causes the primary effects of blast traumas? --- correct answer -
--The direct blast effects. Types of injuries include last long, tympanic
membrane rupture and middle ear damage, abdominal hemorrhage
and perforation, global rupture, mild Trumatic brain injury.
What causes the secondary effects of blast traumas? --- correct
answer ---Projectiles propelled by the explosion. Injuries include
penetrating or blunt injuries or I penetration.
What causes the tertiary effects of blast traumas? --- correct answer -
--Results from individuals being thrown by the blast wind. Injuries
include hole or partial body translocation from being thrown against a
hard service: blunt or penetrating trauma's, fractures, traumatic
amputations.
What causes quarternary effects of blast traumas? --- correct answer -
--All explosion related injuries, illnesses, or diseases not due to the
, first three mechanisms. Injuries include external and internal burns,
crush injuries, closed and open brain injuries, asthmatic or breathing
problems from dust smoke or toxic fumes, angina, or hyper glycemia
and hypertension.
What causes quinary effects of blasts traumas? --- correct answer ---
Those associated with exposure to hazardous materials from
radioactive, biologic, or chemical components of a blast. Injuries
include a variety of health effects depending on agent.
What are the three processes that transfer oxygen from the air to the
lungs and blood stream --- correct answer ---Ventilation: the active
mechanical movement of air into and out of the lungs; diffusion: the
passive movement of gases from an area of higher concentration to an
area of lower concentration; and perfusion: the movement of blood to
and from the lungs as a delivery medium of oxygen to the entire body.
When would you use a nasopharyngeal airway versus an oral
pharyngeal airway? --- correct answer ---Nasopharyngeal airways is
contraindicated in patients with facial trauma or a suspected basilar
skull fracture. Oral pharyngeal airways is used in unresponsive
patients unable to maintain their airway, without a gag reflex as a
temporary measure to facilitate ventilation with a bag mask device or
spontaneous ventilation until the patient can be intubated.