PHTLS 10th Edition Post Test 1, 2, 3, & 4
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MULTIPLE CHOICES
1. Which of the following requires you to develop a plan of action, initiate the plan, reassess the plan as care for
the patient moves forward, and adjust the plan as the patient's condition or circumstances change?
A. Principles of PHTLS
B. The Golden Period
C. The XABCDE assessment
D. Critical thinking process - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 1: D
To help achieve the PHTLS goals, you will apply your critical thinking skills in the field. Critical thinking in
medicine is a process in which the healthcare practitioner assesses the situation, the patient, and the resources
available and uses the information to decide on and provide the best care for the patient.
2. When using the XABCDE assessment, which of the following takes precedence over all other actions?
A. Controlling severe bleeding from a limb or other compressible site
B. Airway stabilization and assessing circulatory status
C. Exposing the body to allow a thorough evaluation
D. Ensuring adequate breathing - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 2: A
The "X" placed before "ABCDE" in the primary survey refers to the need to address exsanguinating hemorrhage
immediately after establishing scene safety and before addressing airway. Severe exsanguinating hemorrhage,
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,particularly arterial bleeding, has the potential to lead to loss of total or near total blood volume in a relatively
short period of time.
3. Which of the following is the basis on which a patient's chance of survival is maximized?
A. Preferences
B. Phases
C. Principles
D. Transport - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 3: C
The science of medicine provides the principles of medical care. Simply stated, principles define the duties
required of the prehospital care practitioner in optimizing patient survival and outcome.
4. Which of the following is a goal of the Golden Period?
A. Provide written documentation from field care to receiving hospital.
B. Expedite the field care and transport of the patient.
C. Use a team approach for optimal patient care.
D. Use the XABCDE approach to patient assessment. - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 4: B
One of your most importantresponsibilities as a prehospital carepractitioner is to spend as little time onthe scene
as possible and expedite yourfield care and transport of the patient.Studies show that the time from injuryto
arrival at the appropriate site fordefinitive care is critical to survival.
1. You are called to the scene of a possible mass casualty motor vehicle collision on the highway. Once you
arrive on scene, what is your first priority?
A. Immediately begin triaging patients.
B. Treat the patient with the most visible blood loss.
C. Determine the need for additional resources.
D. Assess the scene and ensure it is safe. - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 1: D
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,Ensure safety for responders, bystanders, and patient(s). The first consideration when approaching any scene is
the safety of all emergency responders. When EMS personnel become victims, they not only can no longer
assist others, but also add to the number of patients.
2. A trauma patient from the highway incident is holding her right arm, and you note a significant amount of
blood steadily flowing from a long gash. This is an example of what type of hemorrhage?
A. Capillary bleeding
B. Venous bleeding
C. Arterial bleeding
D. Road rash - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 2: B
Venous bleeding typically results in a steady flow of dark red blood.
3. What is the best way to control the bleeding?
A. Direct pressure
B. Elevation of the arm above the heart
C. Tourniquet
D. Occlusive dressing - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 3: A
With venous bleeds, direct pressure isusually sufficient to stop the flow.
4. The patient is wearing long sleeves, and you are having trouble visualizing the wound. What should you do?
A. Cut the cloth away from the site until the entire wound site is visible.
B. Leave the clothing in place. Put gauze over the wound.
C. Remove the patient's shirt.
D. Cut through the slash on the sleeve, and use the material as a makeshift tourniquet. - Correct Ans✓✓
Question 4: A
Clothing can be quickly removed by cutting. You cannot treat what you cannot see.
1. You are called to the scene of an explosion and fire at a chemical plant where you find multiple
casualties.Triage has begun. Your first patient is a 40-year-old man who was near the source of the explosion.
He is unconscious and has extensive injuries. You note gurgling respirations. Why should you use the trauma
jaw thrust maneuver first when dealing with a trauma patient?
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, A. It's an easy technique that always works to open the airway.
B. It allows you to open the airway with little or no movement of the head and cervical spine.
C. Other techniques and interventions don't work as well.
D. It can relieve a variety of anatomic airway obstructions in patients who are breathing spontaneously. - Correct
Ans✓✓ Question 1: B
Manual maneuvers like the trauma jaw thrust or chin lift are always the first airway maneuver you should make
when treating a trauma patient. In patients with suspected head, neck, orfacial trauma, the cervical spine is
maintained in a neutral in-line position.The trauma jaw thrust maneuver allows you to open the airway with
little or no movement of the head and cervical spine.
2. The patient becomes apneic. You suspect he has a cervical injury. Which type of airway should you use?
A. Supraglottic airway
B. Blind nasotracheal intubation
C. Oropharyngeal airway
D. Surgical airway - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 2: A
The supraglottic airway's greatest advantage is that it can be inserted independent of the patient's position, which
may be especially important in trauma patients with high suspicion of cervical injury.
3. Why might it be more difficult to deal with an airway obstruction in a child?
A. Children have longer tracheas.
B. Children have larger heads and tongues so there is a greater potential for airway obstruction.
C. Children have smaller heads, so there is less room to clear the obstruction.
D. A child's epiglottis is smaller and stiffer than an adult's. - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 3: B
Children have larger heads and tongues as compared to an adult so there is a greater potential for airway
obstruction in a pediatric patient. You must pay special attention to the proper positioning of a pediatric patient
to maintain a patent airway.
4. Why might you consider early mechanical ventilation via bag-mask device in a geriatric patient?
A. Shorter tracheas in geriatric patients create the need for ventilation assistance.
B. Laxity of the rib cage makes hyperventilation more likely.
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Questions & 100% Verified Answers
100% Guaranteed Pass!!!!
MULTIPLE CHOICES
1. Which of the following requires you to develop a plan of action, initiate the plan, reassess the plan as care for
the patient moves forward, and adjust the plan as the patient's condition or circumstances change?
A. Principles of PHTLS
B. The Golden Period
C. The XABCDE assessment
D. Critical thinking process - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 1: D
To help achieve the PHTLS goals, you will apply your critical thinking skills in the field. Critical thinking in
medicine is a process in which the healthcare practitioner assesses the situation, the patient, and the resources
available and uses the information to decide on and provide the best care for the patient.
2. When using the XABCDE assessment, which of the following takes precedence over all other actions?
A. Controlling severe bleeding from a limb or other compressible site
B. Airway stabilization and assessing circulatory status
C. Exposing the body to allow a thorough evaluation
D. Ensuring adequate breathing - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 2: A
The "X" placed before "ABCDE" in the primary survey refers to the need to address exsanguinating hemorrhage
immediately after establishing scene safety and before addressing airway. Severe exsanguinating hemorrhage,
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,particularly arterial bleeding, has the potential to lead to loss of total or near total blood volume in a relatively
short period of time.
3. Which of the following is the basis on which a patient's chance of survival is maximized?
A. Preferences
B. Phases
C. Principles
D. Transport - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 3: C
The science of medicine provides the principles of medical care. Simply stated, principles define the duties
required of the prehospital care practitioner in optimizing patient survival and outcome.
4. Which of the following is a goal of the Golden Period?
A. Provide written documentation from field care to receiving hospital.
B. Expedite the field care and transport of the patient.
C. Use a team approach for optimal patient care.
D. Use the XABCDE approach to patient assessment. - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 4: B
One of your most importantresponsibilities as a prehospital carepractitioner is to spend as little time onthe scene
as possible and expedite yourfield care and transport of the patient.Studies show that the time from injuryto
arrival at the appropriate site fordefinitive care is critical to survival.
1. You are called to the scene of a possible mass casualty motor vehicle collision on the highway. Once you
arrive on scene, what is your first priority?
A. Immediately begin triaging patients.
B. Treat the patient with the most visible blood loss.
C. Determine the need for additional resources.
D. Assess the scene and ensure it is safe. - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 1: D
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,Ensure safety for responders, bystanders, and patient(s). The first consideration when approaching any scene is
the safety of all emergency responders. When EMS personnel become victims, they not only can no longer
assist others, but also add to the number of patients.
2. A trauma patient from the highway incident is holding her right arm, and you note a significant amount of
blood steadily flowing from a long gash. This is an example of what type of hemorrhage?
A. Capillary bleeding
B. Venous bleeding
C. Arterial bleeding
D. Road rash - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 2: B
Venous bleeding typically results in a steady flow of dark red blood.
3. What is the best way to control the bleeding?
A. Direct pressure
B. Elevation of the arm above the heart
C. Tourniquet
D. Occlusive dressing - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 3: A
With venous bleeds, direct pressure isusually sufficient to stop the flow.
4. The patient is wearing long sleeves, and you are having trouble visualizing the wound. What should you do?
A. Cut the cloth away from the site until the entire wound site is visible.
B. Leave the clothing in place. Put gauze over the wound.
C. Remove the patient's shirt.
D. Cut through the slash on the sleeve, and use the material as a makeshift tourniquet. - Correct Ans✓✓
Question 4: A
Clothing can be quickly removed by cutting. You cannot treat what you cannot see.
1. You are called to the scene of an explosion and fire at a chemical plant where you find multiple
casualties.Triage has begun. Your first patient is a 40-year-old man who was near the source of the explosion.
He is unconscious and has extensive injuries. You note gurgling respirations. Why should you use the trauma
jaw thrust maneuver first when dealing with a trauma patient?
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, A. It's an easy technique that always works to open the airway.
B. It allows you to open the airway with little or no movement of the head and cervical spine.
C. Other techniques and interventions don't work as well.
D. It can relieve a variety of anatomic airway obstructions in patients who are breathing spontaneously. - Correct
Ans✓✓ Question 1: B
Manual maneuvers like the trauma jaw thrust or chin lift are always the first airway maneuver you should make
when treating a trauma patient. In patients with suspected head, neck, orfacial trauma, the cervical spine is
maintained in a neutral in-line position.The trauma jaw thrust maneuver allows you to open the airway with
little or no movement of the head and cervical spine.
2. The patient becomes apneic. You suspect he has a cervical injury. Which type of airway should you use?
A. Supraglottic airway
B. Blind nasotracheal intubation
C. Oropharyngeal airway
D. Surgical airway - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 2: A
The supraglottic airway's greatest advantage is that it can be inserted independent of the patient's position, which
may be especially important in trauma patients with high suspicion of cervical injury.
3. Why might it be more difficult to deal with an airway obstruction in a child?
A. Children have longer tracheas.
B. Children have larger heads and tongues so there is a greater potential for airway obstruction.
C. Children have smaller heads, so there is less room to clear the obstruction.
D. A child's epiglottis is smaller and stiffer than an adult's. - Correct Ans✓✓ Question 3: B
Children have larger heads and tongues as compared to an adult so there is a greater potential for airway
obstruction in a pediatric patient. You must pay special attention to the proper positioning of a pediatric patient
to maintain a patent airway.
4. Why might you consider early mechanical ventilation via bag-mask device in a geriatric patient?
A. Shorter tracheas in geriatric patients create the need for ventilation assistance.
B. Laxity of the rib cage makes hyperventilation more likely.
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