Phtls - Post Test 8th Edition

Pre-hospital providers have treated a sucking chest wound with an occlusive dressing. During transport, the patient develops increasing respiratory distress with increased respirations and absent lung sounds [noted on repeat auscultation]. What is the most appropriate next intervention? {Ans: remove the occlusive dressing ("burping" the dressing)}After falling from the third story at a construction site, a 27-year-old male is found unconscious with unequal pupils and irregular respirations. What is the most appropriate rate of ventilations? {Ans: 20 beats per minute (bpm)}What best describes the goal of airway management? {Ans: provide for adequate exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide (CO2)}What organ is most sensitive to hypo-tension? {Ans: brain}A patient who sustained extensive blunt trauma to his trunk; has absent lung sounds on the right, marked respiratory distress, tachy-cardia and hyper-tension. What is the most appropriate intervention? {Ans: needle decompression (DART)}Excessive fluid resuscitation of the trauma patient can result in, what? {Ans: increased blood loss}