chest trauma

Question 1

blunt chest trauma

Answer 1

injuries caused by a significant force hitting the chest

Question 2

examples of blunt chest trauma

Answer 2

MVC, falls, crush, weapon, blasts, spots, bicycle crashes

Question 3

injuries caused by chest trauma

Answer 3

chest wall fractures, dislocation, barotraumas, diaphragmatic injuries, injuries to pleura, lungs, heart, great arteries or veins

Question 4

risk factors after blunt chest trauma

Answer 4

hypoxemia, hypovolemia, cardiac failure

Question 5

flail chest

Answer 5

fracture of 3 or more adjacent rubs at 2 or more places on the same side

Question 6

flail chest risks

Answer 6

hypoxemia, hypovolemia, cardiac failure

Question 7

pulmonary contusion

Answer 7

bruised lung

Question 8

T/F pulmonary contusion is associated with flail chest

Answer 8

true

Question 9

symptoms of pulmonary contusion

Answer 9

dyspnea, hypoxemia, tachycardia, pain when breathing

Question 10

cardiac tamponade

Answer 10

fluid/blood filling in the pericardial sac

Question 11

S&S of cardiac tamponade

Answer 11

pain, arrhythmias, low BP, increased RR, SOB, tachycardia, JVD, pulses paradoxes

Question 12

treatment for cardiac tamponade

Answer 12

pericardiocentesis

Question 13

subcutaneous emphysema

Answer 13

air gets into tissue under the skin

Question 14

typical sites for subcutaneous emphysema

Answer 14

around chest tube or trach

Question 15

intervention for subcutaneous emphysema

Answer 15

intubate patient