UCLA EMT TRAUMA TEST| Answered 100% Correctly| Updated 2025

UCLA EMT TRAUMA TEST| Answered 100% Correctly| Updated 2025 Perfusion Delivery of O2 and removal of CO2 - Requires a pump (heart), fluid (blood), and vessels Hypoperfusion inadequate flow of blood: i.e. SHOCK Hypovolemic shock shock resulting from blood or fluid loss - can be a result of bleeding, burns, or dehydration Distributive shock widespread vasodilation - can be caused by SEPSIS Sepsis - 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? POWR: Position (supine), O2, Warmth, Rapid transport Neurogenic shock loss of control of muscular tone of blood vessels (due to a spinal cord injury & damage to the nervous system) Symptoms of neurogenic shock hypotension and bradycardia (only vagus signal bc of sympathetic damage) - usually warm, dry skin below injury (unlike other types of shock) Anaphylactic shock Severe allergic reaction that leads to widespread vasodilation Anaphylactic shock symptoms - Increased vascular permeability - Bronchoconstriction - Stridor - Hives, edema, itching 4 types of skull fractures - linear, depressed, open, basilar Linear skull fracture A simple crack in the skull - least deadly - most common - usually perpendicular to suture in skull Depressed skull fracture 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