Chest trauma

Question 1

Flail segment

Define

Answer 1

• Two or more consecutive ribs have been fractured in two or more places

Question 2

Paradoxical movement

Define

Answer 2

The flail segment moves in the opposite direction of the rest of the chest when breathing

Question 3

Pulmonary contusion

Define

Consequence of what?

Answer 3

• Bruise on the lung from blunt force trauma
• Consequence of a flail segment

Question 4

Treatment for Pulmonary contusion

Answer 4

• Start with NRB
• Move to CPAP if that doesn’t work

Question 5

Pneumothorax

Define

Answer 5

Air accumulating in the pleural cavity causing collapse of a portion of the lung

Question 6

Spontaneous pneumothorax

Define

Answer 6

• A pneumothorax that collapses in the absence of blunt or penetrating trauma

Question 7

Bleb

Whats a bleb?

Answer 7

• A weakened area of the lung. this is how a spontaneous pneumo happens

Question 8

Open pneumothorax

Whats that?

Answer 8

• Open wound to the chest created by a penetrating object
• Referred to as a sucking chest wound

Question 9

Sucking chest wound

treatment

Answer 9

Occlussive dressing taped on 3 sides

Question 10

Tension pneumothorax

Define

Answer 10

• A pneumo that continues to trap air in the thoracic cavity with no relief or escape

Question 11

What stuff gets compressed by a tension pneumo that goes untreated

Answer 11

• The mediastinum gets compressed and moves over to the uninjured side. this compresses the uninjured lung, heart, and large veins then death

Question 12

Hemothorax

Define

Answer 12

• The thoracic cavity is filled with blood. as the blood