Emergency Medicine Test Prep - Question List

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41. A 30 year old driver was brought to the emergency department he has undergone automobile accident and his car steering hit his chest causing blunt trauma of the chest the patient was hypoxic having chest pain and coughing of blood and cyanosed .
You suspect pulmonary contusions which one of the following investigation will confirm the diagnosis of pulmonary contusion?
  1. MRI of the chest
  2. Chest X-Ray
  3. CT of the chest
  4. Chest ultrasound
42. A 40 year old hypoxic and cyanosed patient having blunt chest trauma is brought to emergency department of the hospital you confirmed pulmonary contusions on chest radiography you start managing this patient which one of the following is given with care in management of patient having pulmonary contusion ?
  1. Mechanical ventilation
  2. Fluid replacement
  3. Supportive therapy
  4. None of these
43. Which of the following is a complication in a patient that has experienced blunt force trauma?
  1. Hypotension
  2. Cardiac shock
  3. Arrhythmias
  4. All of the above
44. Which of the following is not a symptom of blunt cardiac injury?
  1. Heart failure ( shortness of breath )
  2. High Blood pressure
  3. Low Blood pressure
  4. Cardiac arrhythmias
45. Presence of blood in the lungs pleural space is called?
  1. Hemothorax
  2. Hydrothorax
  3. Pyothorax
  4. Pneumothorax

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