Chapter 34 Chest Trauma

Front 1

The pt had an episode of hemoptysis. You know that the word root "hero" means blood and the suffix- ptosis refers to___________

Back 1

Spitting

Front 2

Pt's breathing is described as eupnea. What does the prefix "eu-" mean?

Back 2

Good, normal

Front 3

Pt is suffering from a hemothorax. The word root thorax refers to?

Back 3

Chest

Front 4

Pt suffered from orthopnea, what does this term mean?

Back 4

Straight, breathing

Front 5

Pt has a tracheostomy, suffiz -stomy mean?

Back 5

new opening

Front 6

A segment of the chest wall that moves inward during inhalation and outward during exhalation

Back 6

Paradoxical movement

Front 7

An open injury to the chest that permits air to enter the thoracic cavity during inhalation

Back 7

Sucking chest wound

Front 8

2 or more consecutive ribs that are fractured in 2 or more places

Back 8

Flail segment

Front 9

Air in the chest cavity, outside the lungs

Back 9

Pneumothorax

Front 10

A condition in which the build up of air and pressure in the thoracic cavity on the injured side is so sever that it begins to shift the ling on that side to the uninjured side, resulting in compression of the heart vessels and the uninjured lung.

Back 10

Tension Pneumothorax

Front 11

A condition in which the fibrous sac around the heart fills with blood and decrease the ability of the ventricle to ill and eject blood effectively

Back 11

Pericardial Tamponade.

Front 12

A hollow area located in the middle of the thoracic cavity between the right and the left lung is called

Back 12

Mediastinum

Front 13

What is the Parietal Pleura

Back 13

The parietal pleura is the outermost layer of the pleura

Front 14

Jugular veins that engorge during inhalation may be a sign of ______

Back 14

Pericardial Tamponade.

Front 15

You are treating a pt who has been stabbed in the chest. There is a puncture wound that penetrates the parietal and visceral pleura with are being sucked in to the pleural space. As the pleural expands, you would suspect what to occur?

Back 15

A pneumothorax will develop leading to collapsed lung.

Front 16

While treating a pt, you find that a section of the anterior chest wall moves in a direction opposed to the rest of the chest wall. You identify this as a

Back 16

Flail segment

Front 17

The machines of injury suggests an open chest injury. You should quickly exposed and examine the pt's chest during which phase of pt assessment?

Back 17

Primary assessment

Front 18

Some pts with chest wall injury will breathe with extremely shallow, rapid breaths. what is probable reason?

Back 18

It is attempt to reduce pain

Front 19

Upon palpation of pt's next, you feel a cracking sensation. You also observe an inflated appearance to the same region. What is the condition describe and what is the potential cause?

Back 19

Subcutaneous emphysema, air flowing upward and being trapped under the skin.

Front 20

What is the correct way to identify tracheal deviation?

Back 20

Palpate the trachea immediately above the suparsternal notch

Front 21

Your pt is exhibiting sings ans symptoms of a flail segment with paradoxical movement of the chest what is the ideal way to treat this condition?

Back 21

Provide CPAP.

Front 22

You arrive in the scene where a 12 year old boy was struck in the chest by a baseball during a game. The pt was successfully resuscitated from cardiac arrest by the use of AED. You suspect this young man was suffering from _______

Back 22

Commotio cordis

Front 23

Your pt presents with severe chest pain upon movement and breathing. There is tenderness an crepitus on palpation of the right lateral chest and you suspect simple rib fractures? What is the appropriate way to handle this injury?

Back 23

Have the pt guards the injury by placing his arms tightly over the injury site

Front 24

Which traumatic chest injury may result in a narrowing pulse pressure

Back 24

Pericardial tamponde

Front 25

The serous condition often caused by blunt trauma which causes bleeding to occur in and around the alveoli and into the interstitial space that separates the capillaries and alveoli is known as

Back 25

Pulmonary contusion

Front 26

Which of the following best describe auscultated lung sounds produced during a tension pneumothorax?

Back 26

Absent breath sounds on the injured side, decreased breath sound on the uninjured side.

Front 27

Which of the following describe physical findings that suggest an ominous sign of a severe chest injury requiring immediate transport?

Back 27

An increasing heart rate, decreasing in blood pressure and increasing respiratory distress.