UCLA EMT TRAUMA EVALUATION TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔parietal lobe - ✔✔receives sensory input for touch and body position
✔✔periorbital ecchymosis - ✔✔raccoon eyes from basilar skull fracture
✔✔Posterior Cord Syndrome - ✔✔Injury results in loss of proprioception and variable
preservation of motor function and pain and temperature sensation.
✔✔Reticular Activating System (RAS) - ✔✔brain area that plays a key role in arousal
✔✔anterograde amnesia - ✔✔loss of memory of events occurring after injury
✔✔retrograde amnesia - ✔✔loss of memory of events that occurred before the injury
✔✔Primary brain injury - ✔✔injury to brain and associated structures direct result of
impact to the head
✔✔Secondary brain injury - ✔✔after effects of the primary injury; abnormal processes
such as cerebral edema, increased ICP, cerebral ischemia and hypoxia, and infection;
onset is often delayed following the primary brain injury.
✔✔primary spinal cord injury - ✔✔injury to spinal cord direct result of trauma,
✔✔secondary spinal cord injury - ✔✔after effects of primary injury, profession of
inflammatory effects
✔✔spinal shock - ✔✔spinal cord swelling and edema after trauma, severe pain and
possible paralysis
✔✔spinal stenosis - ✔✔narrowing of the spinal canal with compression of nerve roots
, ✔✔subarachnoid hemorrhage - ✔✔Bleeding into the subarachnoid space, where the
cerebrospinal fluid circulates
✔✔subdural hematoma - ✔✔accumulation of blood beneath the dura mater but outside
the brain
✔✔subkuxation - ✔✔an incomplete or partial dislocation of a joint
✔✔Subgleal hematoma - ✔✔bleeding between subgleal area of skull and fall
aponeurosis
✔✔sympathetic nervous system - ✔✔fight or flight
✔✔temporal lobe - ✔✔hearing and memory
✔✔Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) - ✔✔impairment of brain function from external force
✔✔Trismus - ✔✔Clenched teeth caused by spasms of the jaw muscles.
✔✔atelectasis - ✔✔collapse of alveoli
✔✔cardiac tamponade - ✔✔atria and right ventricle are collapsed by a collection of
blood or other fluid within pericardial sac resulting in a diminished cardiac
output/preload
✔✔Commotio Cordis - ✔✔sudden blow to chest causing dysrhythmia
✔✔flail chest - ✔✔fracture of two or more adjacent ribs in two or more places that
allows for free movement of the fractured segment
✔✔hemopnuemothorax - ✔✔blood and air in pleural cavity
✔✔hemothorax - ✔✔blood in the pleural cavity
✔✔jugular vein distention (JVD) - ✔✔prominence of jugular neck veins from increased
ins or thoracic pressure
✔✔myocardial contusion - ✔✔bruising of the heart muscle
✔✔myocardial rupture - ✔✔An acute perforation of the ventricles, atria, intraventricular
septum, intra-atrial septum, chordae, papillary muscles, or valves.
✔✔open pneumothorax - ✔✔defect in chest wall allowing air into thoracic space
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔parietal lobe - ✔✔receives sensory input for touch and body position
✔✔periorbital ecchymosis - ✔✔raccoon eyes from basilar skull fracture
✔✔Posterior Cord Syndrome - ✔✔Injury results in loss of proprioception and variable
preservation of motor function and pain and temperature sensation.
✔✔Reticular Activating System (RAS) - ✔✔brain area that plays a key role in arousal
✔✔anterograde amnesia - ✔✔loss of memory of events occurring after injury
✔✔retrograde amnesia - ✔✔loss of memory of events that occurred before the injury
✔✔Primary brain injury - ✔✔injury to brain and associated structures direct result of
impact to the head
✔✔Secondary brain injury - ✔✔after effects of the primary injury; abnormal processes
such as cerebral edema, increased ICP, cerebral ischemia and hypoxia, and infection;
onset is often delayed following the primary brain injury.
✔✔primary spinal cord injury - ✔✔injury to spinal cord direct result of trauma,
✔✔secondary spinal cord injury - ✔✔after effects of primary injury, profession of
inflammatory effects
✔✔spinal shock - ✔✔spinal cord swelling and edema after trauma, severe pain and
possible paralysis
✔✔spinal stenosis - ✔✔narrowing of the spinal canal with compression of nerve roots
, ✔✔subarachnoid hemorrhage - ✔✔Bleeding into the subarachnoid space, where the
cerebrospinal fluid circulates
✔✔subdural hematoma - ✔✔accumulation of blood beneath the dura mater but outside
the brain
✔✔subkuxation - ✔✔an incomplete or partial dislocation of a joint
✔✔Subgleal hematoma - ✔✔bleeding between subgleal area of skull and fall
aponeurosis
✔✔sympathetic nervous system - ✔✔fight or flight
✔✔temporal lobe - ✔✔hearing and memory
✔✔Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) - ✔✔impairment of brain function from external force
✔✔Trismus - ✔✔Clenched teeth caused by spasms of the jaw muscles.
✔✔atelectasis - ✔✔collapse of alveoli
✔✔cardiac tamponade - ✔✔atria and right ventricle are collapsed by a collection of
blood or other fluid within pericardial sac resulting in a diminished cardiac
output/preload
✔✔Commotio Cordis - ✔✔sudden blow to chest causing dysrhythmia
✔✔flail chest - ✔✔fracture of two or more adjacent ribs in two or more places that
allows for free movement of the fractured segment
✔✔hemopnuemothorax - ✔✔blood and air in pleural cavity
✔✔hemothorax - ✔✔blood in the pleural cavity
✔✔jugular vein distention (JVD) - ✔✔prominence of jugular neck veins from increased
ins or thoracic pressure
✔✔myocardial contusion - ✔✔bruising of the heart muscle
✔✔myocardial rupture - ✔✔An acute perforation of the ventricles, atria, intraventricular
septum, intra-atrial septum, chordae, papillary muscles, or valves.
✔✔open pneumothorax - ✔✔defect in chest wall allowing air into thoracic space
