Chapter 10 & 13: Injuries to the Thoracic through Coccygeal Spine & Injuries to the Thorax and Abdomen

Question 1

Pneumathorax

Answer 1

Air collects in the pleural cavity, causing a collapsed lung.

Question 2

Hemothorax

Answer 2

Blood filling in the pleural cavity, causing a collapsed lung.

Question 3

Flail Chest

Answer 3

A rib fracture involving one or more ribs.

Question 4

Dyspnea

Answer 4

A consistent symptom of painful respiration

Question 5

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

Answer 5

Blood vessels and nerves become impressed between the clavical and first rib causing pain and or other symptoms in the shoulder and neck.

Question 6

Herniated Disk

Answer 6

Rupture or protusion of the nucleus pulposus through the annulus fiprosus of the inverted disc

Question 7

Spondylolysis

Answer 7

Is a stress fracture in the neural arch (pars interarticular)

Question 8

Hematuria

Answer 8

Blood in urine

Question 9

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Answer 9

The heart muscle becomes abnormally thick (hypertrophied) which makes it hard for the heart to pump blood.

Question 10

Marfan Syndrome

Answer 10

Inherited disorder affecting connective tissue in the heart, blood vessels, eyes and bones. Vision problems and defects in the large blood vessels leaving the heart are two primary conditions associated with this.

Question 11

Kehr’s Sign

Answer 11

Pain radiating into the left shoulder that is normally associated with an injury to the spleen.