CTE EMT Test 3 review

Your awareness and concern for potentially serious underlying and unseen injuries.

• Mechanism of injury

• Nature of illness

• Differential Diagnosis

• Index of suspicion

The most common life-threatening event in a rollover crash is:

• ejection or partial ejection

• colliding with items inside the vehicle

• shearing of the aorta

• colliding with other passengers inside the vehicle

In an explosion, people are injured by flying debris; what type of injuries have they sustained?

• Primary blast injuries

• Secondary blast injuries

• Tertiary blast injuries

• Miscellaneous blast injuries

The circulation of blood within an organ or tissue in adequate amounts is:

• Homeostasis

• Hypoxia

• Ischemia

• Perfusion

According to the Rule of Nines, an adult leg is worth:

• 18

• 9

• 4.5

• 1

Contusion is also called:

• Hematoma

• Epistaxis

• Coagulation

• Bruise

Which of the following scenarios would require a tourniquet?

• a patient who is experiencing internal bleeding in the abdomen after being kicked by a horse
• a patient who slices her finger while cutting carrots
• a patient whose femoral artery is severed in the leg after a chainsaw accident

Which of the following cases would you NOT apply pressure at all?

• skull fractures/impaled objects
• amputated limbs
• veinous bleeds
• arterial bleeds

Signs of good circulation around a pressure bandage include all of the following except

• normal skin color
• cold extremities
• sensation
• warmth

To stop external bleed you should

• apply pressure above the wound
• apply pressure below the wound
• apply pressure directly on the wound
• dont apply pressure for fear of making wound worse