Emergency Medicine Test Prep

Category - Chest Trauma

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
Explanation
Answer: D - Initial treatment and management of blunt cardiac injury is according to the clinical manifestation present. The clinical manifestation of blunt cardiac injury are structural abnormalities, hypotension, Cardiac shock and arrhythmias
In blunt force trauma there is heavy blood loss which results in shock and hypotension and decreased cardiac output leads to arrhythmias.
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