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Emergency Medicine Test Prep

Category - Chest Trauma

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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
Explanation
Answer: B - Pulmonary contusion is a contusion of the lung caused by blunt chest trauma the signs of pulmonary contusion are hypoxia , chest pain , cyanosis and coughing of blood .Although all of the above are tests used for the diagnosis of the pulmonary contusion but chest X-ray is Cheap and easily available In the emergency departments of the hospitals so it is the best investigation for the diagnosis of pulmonary contusion in the emergency department.
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