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The pt had an episode of hemoptysis. You know that the word root "hero" means blood and the suffix- ptosis refers to___________ |
Spitting |
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Pt's breathing is described as eupnea. What does the prefix "eu-" mean? |
Good, normal |
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Pt is suffering from a hemothorax. The word root thorax refers to? |
Chest |
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Pt suffered from orthopnea, what does this term mean? |
Straight, breathing |
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Pt has a tracheostomy, suffiz -stomy mean? |
new opening
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A segment of the chest wall that moves inward during inhalation and outward during exhalation
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Paradoxical movement
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An open injury to the chest that permits air to enter the thoracic cavity during inhalation
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Sucking chest wound
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2 or more consecutive ribs that are fractured in 2 or more places
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Flail segment
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Air in the chest cavity, outside the lungs
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Pneumothorax
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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.
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Tension Pneumothorax
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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
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Pericardial Tamponade.
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A hollow area located in the middle of the thoracic cavity between the right and the left lung is called
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Mediastinum
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What is the Parietal Pleura
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The parietal pleura is the outermost layer of the pleura
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Jugular veins that engorge during inhalation may be a sign of ______
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Pericardial Tamponade.
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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?
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A pneumothorax will develop leading to collapsed lung.
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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
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Flail segment |
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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? |
Primary assessment
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Some pts with chest wall injury will breathe with extremely shallow, rapid breaths. what is probable reason? |
It is attempt to reduce pain
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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?
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Subcutaneous emphysema, air flowing upward and being trapped under the skin.
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What is the correct way to identify tracheal deviation?
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Palpate the trachea immediately above the suparsternal notch
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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? |
Provide CPAP. |
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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 _______ |
Commotio cordis |
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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? |
Have the pt guards the injury by placing his arms tightly over the injury site |
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Which traumatic chest injury may result in a narrowing pulse pressure |
Pericardial tamponde |
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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 |
Pulmonary contusion |
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Which of the following best describe auscultated lung sounds produced during a tension pneumothorax? |
Absent breath sounds on the injured side, decreased breath sound on the uninjured side. |
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Which of the following describe physical findings that suggest an ominous sign of a severe chest injury requiring immediate transport? |
An increasing heart rate, decreasing in blood pressure and increasing respiratory distress. |