TNCC COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Will hypocapnia cause vasoconstriction or vasodilation,
especially in the cerebral vasculature?
Answer: Vasoconstriction
◉ What results from tissue hypo perfusion and oxygen deficit?
Answer: Metabolic acidosis
◉ What type of shock results in generalized vasodilation?
Answer: Neurogenic shock
◉ Spinal cord injuries at C3-C5 causes loss of what nerves
function, resulting in what?
Answer: Phrenic nerve; paralyzed diaphragm and inability to
breath
◉ Extremity elevation AT the level of the heart is beneficial for
what type of injury?
Answer: Compartment Syndrome
◉ What is a high risk of frostbite?
,Answer: Thrombus formation
◉ What two medications can be administered to maintain
perfusion after a frostbite injury along with rewarming?
Answer: Tissue plasminogen activator or non steroidal anti-
inflammatory medication (NSAIDS)
◉ An rise in diastolic blood pressures is a sign of increasing what?
Answer: Peripheral resistance
◉ What position will benefit the airway and work of breathing for
the bariatric patient?
Answer: Reverse Trendelenburg
◉ Which phase of a blast results from flying debris, projectiles,
and bomb fragments causing lacerations or penetrating injuries?
Answer: Secondary Phase
◉ What phase of a blast results from any explosion-related illness
or injury including hyperglycemia, hypertension, angina, asthma,
COPD, or sepsis?
Answer: Quaternary Phase
◉ What phase of a blast results from individuals being thrown by
the blast and impacting walls, ground, or any hard object?
, Answer: Tertiary Phase
◉ What phase of a blast results from impact of the over and under
pressurization wave with body surfaces. Injuries include blast
lung, tympanic membrane rupture, abdominal hemorrhage, globe
rupture, and mild traumatic brain injury?
Answer: Primary Phase
◉ Signs of what include muscle pain or weakness, dark red or
brown urine, general weakness or malaise, and elevated
creatinine kinase levels?
Answer: Rhabdomyolosis
◉ Signs of what include anxiety, pleuritic chest pain, dyspnea,
hypoxemia, hemoptysis, cough, orthopnea, adventitious lung
sounds, decreased lung sounds, jugular vein distention, or
hypotension?
Answer: Pulmonary Embolus
◉ Signs of what include headache, nausea and vomiting, amnesia,
behavioral changes, altered level of consciousness?
Answer: Increased intracranial pressure
◉ Signs of what include asymmetric pupillary reactivity, unilateral
dilation, widening pulse pressure, abnormal motor posturing,
bradycardia, and decreased respiratory effort?
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Will hypocapnia cause vasoconstriction or vasodilation,
especially in the cerebral vasculature?
Answer: Vasoconstriction
◉ What results from tissue hypo perfusion and oxygen deficit?
Answer: Metabolic acidosis
◉ What type of shock results in generalized vasodilation?
Answer: Neurogenic shock
◉ Spinal cord injuries at C3-C5 causes loss of what nerves
function, resulting in what?
Answer: Phrenic nerve; paralyzed diaphragm and inability to
breath
◉ Extremity elevation AT the level of the heart is beneficial for
what type of injury?
Answer: Compartment Syndrome
◉ What is a high risk of frostbite?
,Answer: Thrombus formation
◉ What two medications can be administered to maintain
perfusion after a frostbite injury along with rewarming?
Answer: Tissue plasminogen activator or non steroidal anti-
inflammatory medication (NSAIDS)
◉ An rise in diastolic blood pressures is a sign of increasing what?
Answer: Peripheral resistance
◉ What position will benefit the airway and work of breathing for
the bariatric patient?
Answer: Reverse Trendelenburg
◉ Which phase of a blast results from flying debris, projectiles,
and bomb fragments causing lacerations or penetrating injuries?
Answer: Secondary Phase
◉ What phase of a blast results from any explosion-related illness
or injury including hyperglycemia, hypertension, angina, asthma,
COPD, or sepsis?
Answer: Quaternary Phase
◉ What phase of a blast results from individuals being thrown by
the blast and impacting walls, ground, or any hard object?
, Answer: Tertiary Phase
◉ What phase of a blast results from impact of the over and under
pressurization wave with body surfaces. Injuries include blast
lung, tympanic membrane rupture, abdominal hemorrhage, globe
rupture, and mild traumatic brain injury?
Answer: Primary Phase
◉ Signs of what include muscle pain or weakness, dark red or
brown urine, general weakness or malaise, and elevated
creatinine kinase levels?
Answer: Rhabdomyolosis
◉ Signs of what include anxiety, pleuritic chest pain, dyspnea,
hypoxemia, hemoptysis, cough, orthopnea, adventitious lung
sounds, decreased lung sounds, jugular vein distention, or
hypotension?
Answer: Pulmonary Embolus
◉ Signs of what include headache, nausea and vomiting, amnesia,
behavioral changes, altered level of consciousness?
Answer: Increased intracranial pressure
◉ Signs of what include asymmetric pupillary reactivity, unilateral
dilation, widening pulse pressure, abnormal motor posturing,
bradycardia, and decreased respiratory effort?
