UCLA EMT TRAUMA TEST UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Perfusion - CORRECT ANSWER - Delivery of O2 and removal of CO2
- Requires a pump (heart), fluid (blood), and vessels
Hypoperfusion - CORRECT ANSWER - inadequate flow of blood: i.e. SHOCK
Hypovolemic shock - CORRECT ANSWER - shock resulting from blood or fluid loss
- can be a result of bleeding, burns, or dehydration
Distributive shock - CORRECT ANSWER - widespread vasodilation
- can be caused by SEPSIS
Sepsis - CORRECT ANSWER - - Severe infection that has an initial point then spreads
throughout bloodstream
- Toxins from infection destroy vessel walls, leading to capillary permeability & reduced
intravascular fluid
How to treat septic shock? - CORRECT ANSWER - POWR: Position (supine), O2, Warmth,
Rapid transport
Neurogenic shock - CORRECT ANSWER - loss of control of muscular tone of blood vessels
(due to a spinal cord injury & damage to the nervous system)
Symptoms of neurogenic shock - CORRECT ANSWER - hypotension and bradycardia (only
vagus signal bc of sympathetic damage)
- usually warm, dry skin below injury (unlike other types of shock)
, Anaphylactic shock - CORRECT ANSWER - Severe allergic reaction that leads to
widespread vasodilation
Anaphylactic shock symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER - - Increased vascular permeability
- Bronchoconstriction
- Stridor
- Hives, edema, itching
4 types of skull fractures - CORRECT ANSWER - - linear, depressed, open, basilar
Linear skull fracture - CORRECT ANSWER - A simple crack in the skull
- least deadly
- most common
- usually perpendicular to suture in skull
Depressed skull fracture - CORRECT ANSWER - Inward indentation of the skull with
possible pressure on brain
- Usually caused from direct trauma to skull (I.e. baseball bat to head)
- Will feel abnormal
Open skull fracture - CORRECT ANSWER - a skull fracture with an associated open wound
to the overlying scalp
- pierced brain cavity
- worst injury, most deadly
Basilar skull fracture - CORRECT ANSWER - - Fracture at the base of the skull
- leak in cranial vault (usually occurs at high speeds)
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Perfusion - CORRECT ANSWER - Delivery of O2 and removal of CO2
- Requires a pump (heart), fluid (blood), and vessels
Hypoperfusion - CORRECT ANSWER - inadequate flow of blood: i.e. SHOCK
Hypovolemic shock - CORRECT ANSWER - shock resulting from blood or fluid loss
- can be a result of bleeding, burns, or dehydration
Distributive shock - CORRECT ANSWER - widespread vasodilation
- can be caused by SEPSIS
Sepsis - CORRECT ANSWER - - Severe infection that has an initial point then spreads
throughout bloodstream
- Toxins from infection destroy vessel walls, leading to capillary permeability & reduced
intravascular fluid
How to treat septic shock? - CORRECT ANSWER - POWR: Position (supine), O2, Warmth,
Rapid transport
Neurogenic shock - CORRECT ANSWER - loss of control of muscular tone of blood vessels
(due to a spinal cord injury & damage to the nervous system)
Symptoms of neurogenic shock - CORRECT ANSWER - hypotension and bradycardia (only
vagus signal bc of sympathetic damage)
- usually warm, dry skin below injury (unlike other types of shock)
, Anaphylactic shock - CORRECT ANSWER - Severe allergic reaction that leads to
widespread vasodilation
Anaphylactic shock symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER - - Increased vascular permeability
- Bronchoconstriction
- Stridor
- Hives, edema, itching
4 types of skull fractures - CORRECT ANSWER - - linear, depressed, open, basilar
Linear skull fracture - CORRECT ANSWER - A simple crack in the skull
- least deadly
- most common
- usually perpendicular to suture in skull
Depressed skull fracture - CORRECT ANSWER - Inward indentation of the skull with
possible pressure on brain
- Usually caused from direct trauma to skull (I.e. baseball bat to head)
- Will feel abnormal
Open skull fracture - CORRECT ANSWER - a skull fracture with an associated open wound
to the overlying scalp
- pierced brain cavity
- worst injury, most deadly
Basilar skull fracture - CORRECT ANSWER - - Fracture at the base of the skull
- leak in cranial vault (usually occurs at high speeds)
