TRAUMA SURGERY QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Identify MOI CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓Evaluate the type of injury force and the traumatic impact or result
on human tissue.
Category 1 CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓Requires immediate care, usually penetrating trauma.
Trauma score CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓Includes Glasgow coma scale (GCS), systolic blood pressure, and
respiratory rate.
Falls CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓15-20 ft are generally injurious to adults, and falls twice the height of a child
can have equivalent impact. Skeletal and thoracic organ damage is common in this group.
RST CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓Revised trauma score is used to assess patient at the scene of an accident.
Combines respiration, systolic blood pressure, and measures the GCS for neurological function
assessment of brain injury.
The golden hour CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓Time starts ticking once treatment begins at the trauma scene.
Continues ticking as case enters trauma center and through the OR.
First phase CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓50% of trauma patients die at the scene immediately after injury. Eg.
Caroltid artery, aorta, brain stem severed.
Second phase CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓30% of trauma patients die w/in two hours after injury, depending
on the impact of trauma care on primary injury areas. Eg. Spleen, liver, lung, organs with significant
blood loss.
Third phase CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓20% of trauma patients die w/in days or weeks after injury, based on
complication of multiple organ failure. Eg. Infection, pelvic fracture, head and spinal injury.
Category 1 level of trauma CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓Sustained hypotension; cavity penetration to the
torso or neck.
Identify MOI CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓Evaluate the type of injury force and the traumatic impact or result
on human tissue.
Category 1 CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓Requires immediate care, usually penetrating trauma.
Trauma score CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓Includes Glasgow coma scale (GCS), systolic blood pressure, and
respiratory rate.
Falls CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓15-20 ft are generally injurious to adults, and falls twice the height of a child
can have equivalent impact. Skeletal and thoracic organ damage is common in this group.
RST CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓Revised trauma score is used to assess patient at the scene of an accident.
Combines respiration, systolic blood pressure, and measures the GCS for neurological function
assessment of brain injury.
The golden hour CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓Time starts ticking once treatment begins at the trauma scene.
Continues ticking as case enters trauma center and through the OR.
First phase CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓50% of trauma patients die at the scene immediately after injury. Eg.
Caroltid artery, aorta, brain stem severed.
Second phase CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓30% of trauma patients die w/in two hours after injury, depending
on the impact of trauma care on primary injury areas. Eg. Spleen, liver, lung, organs with significant
blood loss.
Third phase CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓20% of trauma patients die w/in days or weeks after injury, based on
complication of multiple organ failure. Eg. Infection, pelvic fracture, head and spinal injury.
Category 1 level of trauma CORRECT ANSWERS✓✓Sustained hypotension; cavity penetration to the
torso or neck.
