TNCC Written Exam Questions and
Answers | Latest Version | 2024/2025 |
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What is the first priority in trauma patient management?
✔✔ Ensuring a patent airway with spinal precautions if needed.
How can you quickly assess a patient's neurological status during the primary survey?
✔✔ Using the AVPU scale (Alert, Verbal, Pain, Unresponsive).
What is the most important initial intervention for a patient with suspected tension
pneumothorax?
✔✔ Needle decompression.
What should be done immediately if a trauma patient has no palpable pulse?
✔✔ Initiate high-quality CPR.
What is the best way to control severe external bleeding?
✔✔ Apply direct pressure and use a tourniquet if necessary.
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,What does a weak, rapid pulse indicate in a trauma patient?
✔✔ Hypovolemic shock.
What is the preferred method of securing an airway in a trauma patient with a suspected spinal
injury?
✔✔ Jaw thrust maneuver.
What is the most reliable indicator of adequate ventilation in an intubated trauma patient?
✔✔ End-tidal CO₂ monitoring.
What does a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 8 or lower indicate?
✔✔ The need for immediate airway management.
What is the first-line fluid for resuscitation in a hypovolemic trauma patient?
✔✔ Isotonic crystalloids like normal saline or lactated Ringer’s.
Why is it important to reassess a trauma patient frequently?
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, ✔✔ To detect changes in condition and intervene promptly.
What are the signs of a basilar skull fracture?
✔✔ Battle’s sign, raccoon eyes, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage.
Why should hypotension in a trauma patient always be assumed to be hemorrhagic until proven
otherwise?
✔✔ Because uncontrolled bleeding is the most common cause of shock in trauma.
What is the most critical intervention for an open sucking chest wound?
✔✔ Apply a three-sided occlusive dressing.
What is Beck’s triad a sign of?
✔✔ Cardiac tamponade.
Why is it important to prevent hypothermia in trauma patients?
✔✔ Hypothermia worsens coagulopathy and increases mortality.
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Answers | Latest Version | 2024/2025 |
Correct & Verified
What is the first priority in trauma patient management?
✔✔ Ensuring a patent airway with spinal precautions if needed.
How can you quickly assess a patient's neurological status during the primary survey?
✔✔ Using the AVPU scale (Alert, Verbal, Pain, Unresponsive).
What is the most important initial intervention for a patient with suspected tension
pneumothorax?
✔✔ Needle decompression.
What should be done immediately if a trauma patient has no palpable pulse?
✔✔ Initiate high-quality CPR.
What is the best way to control severe external bleeding?
✔✔ Apply direct pressure and use a tourniquet if necessary.
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,What does a weak, rapid pulse indicate in a trauma patient?
✔✔ Hypovolemic shock.
What is the preferred method of securing an airway in a trauma patient with a suspected spinal
injury?
✔✔ Jaw thrust maneuver.
What is the most reliable indicator of adequate ventilation in an intubated trauma patient?
✔✔ End-tidal CO₂ monitoring.
What does a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 8 or lower indicate?
✔✔ The need for immediate airway management.
What is the first-line fluid for resuscitation in a hypovolemic trauma patient?
✔✔ Isotonic crystalloids like normal saline or lactated Ringer’s.
Why is it important to reassess a trauma patient frequently?
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, ✔✔ To detect changes in condition and intervene promptly.
What are the signs of a basilar skull fracture?
✔✔ Battle’s sign, raccoon eyes, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage.
Why should hypotension in a trauma patient always be assumed to be hemorrhagic until proven
otherwise?
✔✔ Because uncontrolled bleeding is the most common cause of shock in trauma.
What is the most critical intervention for an open sucking chest wound?
✔✔ Apply a three-sided occlusive dressing.
What is Beck’s triad a sign of?
✔✔ Cardiac tamponade.
Why is it important to prevent hypothermia in trauma patients?
✔✔ Hypothermia worsens coagulopathy and increases mortality.
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