Chest Trauma

During Inhalation, intrathoracic pressure will

• Increase

• Decrease

• No change

The DANGERS of Chest trauma may compromise which 3 processes?

Name the TWO mechanisms of chest injury

List 3 injury that may be presented in a CLOSED chest trauma.

List 1 injury that may be presented in a OPEN chest trauma.

During assessment of a chest trauma, it is revealed that RIBS 9 to 11 are fractured. We can suspect patient to be suffering from

Answer explanation

The injuries will mainly focus on the intra-abdominal region.

What is flail chest?

Answer explanation

Two or more adjacent ribs fractured in two or more places.

Segment becomes separated from chest wall.

What is the critical intervention for a chest trauma without external bleeding?

Under what circumstances will there be a "sucking chest wound"?

Answer explanation

When the glottis opening is smaller than the "hole" from the chest injury, air is more likely to enter from the chest wall instead.

(In men aged 20-79, are 25 mm and 27 mm; in women, they are 21 mm and 23 mm, respectively. The lower limit of normal for both dimensions is 13 mm in men and 10 mm in women.)

Credit: Dimensions of the normal human trachea | AJR (ajronline.org)

The process by which CO2 is removed from the body is known as

• inhalation

• circulation

• exhalation

• oxygenation