| 1.) |
What additional history is needed? |
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| 2.) |
Given the nature of the injury, what are the main concerns? |
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| 3.) |
How do you recognize a tension pneumothorax? |
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| 4.) |
If the person is in acute distress, how can you relieve the distress quickly? |
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| 5.) |
How do you definitively manage the pneumothorax? |
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| 6.) |
What other life threatening thoracic injuries may occur in this type of deceleration injury? |
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| 7.) |
How does myocardial contusion present? |
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| 8.) |
Where in the aorta does traumatic aortic rupture usually occur? |
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| 9.) |
What is a quick test used to evaluate blunt trauma to the abdomen? |
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| 10.) |
What is diagnostic peritoneal lavage and when may it be indicated? |
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| 11.) |
What are significant findings in DPL? |
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| 12.) |
What is the more definitive test used in suspected blunt intraabdominal injury? |
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| 13.) |
What are the absolute indications for laparotomy after abdominal assessment is completed in blunt injury? |
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