ATLS Initial Assessment and Management
Exam Questions And Answers
What are the parts of the initial assessment? - - -
correct answer ✅1. Preparation
2. triage
3. Primary Survey (ABCDEs) with immediate resuscitation of
patients with life threatening injuries
4. Adjuncts to primary survey and resuscitation
5. Consideration of need for patient transfer
6. Secondary survey (head to toe evaluation and patient history)
7. Adjuncts to secondary survey
8. Continued postresuscitation monitoring and re-evaluation
9. Definitive care
Why are the primary and secondary surveys repeated frequently? -
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correct answer ✅to identify any change in patient's status that
indicates the need for additional intervention
What is involved in the primary survey with simultaneous
resuscitation? - - -
correct answer ✅1. Airway maintenance with restriction of
cervical spine motion
,ATLS Initial Assessment and Management
Exam Questions And Answers
2. Breathing and ventilation
3. Circulation with hemorrhage control
4. Disability (assessment of neurologic status)
5. Exposure/environmental control
how can clinicians quickly assess the A, B, C, and D in a patient in 10
seconds? - - -
correct answer ✅Provider identifies him/herself, asking the
patient for his or her name, and asking what happended
Airway maintenance with restriction of a C-spine montion - - -
correct answer ✅-Establish a definitive airway if there is any doubt
about patient's ability to maintain airway integrity
-While assessing and managing patient's airway take great care to
prevent excessive movement of c-spine. based on mechanism of
trauma, assume that a spinal injury exists
Breathing and ventilation - - -
correct answer ✅-a simple pneumothorax can be converted to a
tension pneumothorax when a patient is intubated and positive
pressure ventilation is provided before decompressing the
pneumothorax with a chest tube
, ATLS Initial Assessment and Management
Exam Questions And Answers
What are three elements of clinical observation that yield
important information within seconds? - - -
correct answer ✅1. level of consciousness
2. skin perfusion
3. pulse
Level of consciousness - - -
correct answer ✅when circulating blood volume is reduced,
cerebral perfusion may be critically impaired, resulting in altered
level of consciousness
skin perfusion - - -
correct answer ✅helpful in evaluating injured hypovolemic
patients
pulse - - -
correct answer ✅a rapid, thready pulse is typically a sign of
hypovolemia
Exam Questions And Answers
What are the parts of the initial assessment? - - -
correct answer ✅1. Preparation
2. triage
3. Primary Survey (ABCDEs) with immediate resuscitation of
patients with life threatening injuries
4. Adjuncts to primary survey and resuscitation
5. Consideration of need for patient transfer
6. Secondary survey (head to toe evaluation and patient history)
7. Adjuncts to secondary survey
8. Continued postresuscitation monitoring and re-evaluation
9. Definitive care
Why are the primary and secondary surveys repeated frequently? -
--
correct answer ✅to identify any change in patient's status that
indicates the need for additional intervention
What is involved in the primary survey with simultaneous
resuscitation? - - -
correct answer ✅1. Airway maintenance with restriction of
cervical spine motion
,ATLS Initial Assessment and Management
Exam Questions And Answers
2. Breathing and ventilation
3. Circulation with hemorrhage control
4. Disability (assessment of neurologic status)
5. Exposure/environmental control
how can clinicians quickly assess the A, B, C, and D in a patient in 10
seconds? - - -
correct answer ✅Provider identifies him/herself, asking the
patient for his or her name, and asking what happended
Airway maintenance with restriction of a C-spine montion - - -
correct answer ✅-Establish a definitive airway if there is any doubt
about patient's ability to maintain airway integrity
-While assessing and managing patient's airway take great care to
prevent excessive movement of c-spine. based on mechanism of
trauma, assume that a spinal injury exists
Breathing and ventilation - - -
correct answer ✅-a simple pneumothorax can be converted to a
tension pneumothorax when a patient is intubated and positive
pressure ventilation is provided before decompressing the
pneumothorax with a chest tube
, ATLS Initial Assessment and Management
Exam Questions And Answers
What are three elements of clinical observation that yield
important information within seconds? - - -
correct answer ✅1. level of consciousness
2. skin perfusion
3. pulse
Level of consciousness - - -
correct answer ✅when circulating blood volume is reduced,
cerebral perfusion may be critically impaired, resulting in altered
level of consciousness
skin perfusion - - -
correct answer ✅helpful in evaluating injured hypovolemic
patients
pulse - - -
correct answer ✅a rapid, thready pulse is typically a sign of
hypovolemia
