Emergency Medicine Test Prep

Category - Chest Trauma

After trauma a patient developed Perte’s syndrome or traumatic asphyxia which of the following sign symptom is not associated with this injury?
  1. Craniocervical cyanosis,
  2. subconjunctival hemorrhage,
  3. Facial edema
  4. Hyperventilation
Explanation
Answer: D - In traumatic asphyxia there is compression after deep inspiration against a closed glottis, which results in venous hypertension in the valveless cervicofacial venous system result in above clinical sign symptoms.
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