Author: Anonymous

Which of the following may affect the pattern of injury in abdominal trauma?

Which of the following is TRUE of the patient with a suspected penetrating injury to or rupture of the diaphragm?

Which of the following can reduce the potential for abdominal injury?

Your patient is a 27-year-old man with one stab wound at the fifth intercostal space posteriorly, on the right. He is ambulatory at the scene, but dyspneic and has air movement at the site of the injury. Which of the following should you do first?

Which of the following is a consideration in preventing orthopedic injury?

A patient unable to extend the leg or flex the hip is MOST likely to have incurred an injury in which nerve plexus?

The liver is injured ________ percent of the time with penetrating abdominal trauma.

Your patient is a 30-year-old pregnant woman at 36 weeks’ gestation. She was injured in a fall from a horse and is complaining of painful contractions. Her abdomen is tender to palpation over the uterus, and the uterus becomes firm with contractions, but she denies vaginal bleeding. The patient is anxious, but her skin is warm and dry. Her blood pressure is 112/70, her heart rate is 92, and her respirations are 24. Which of the following statements best describes this situation?

A fracture in which significant energy exchange shatters or splinters bone, creating many fragments, is called a(n) ________ fracture.

A patient unable to extend the leg or flex the hip is MOST likely to have incurred an injury in which nerve plexus?