ITLS Final Exam UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
1. What is the Golden Hour? First 60 minutes after traumatic injury
2. Describe Platinum 10 minutes: Time that it should take to load and go
3. Describe the windshield survey: When arriving on scene, scan through the wind-
shield to look at what is all involved in the scene.
This is a crucial part of scene safety.
4. Describe the fix it process: If something is injured like a sucking chest
wound, fix it and move on to the next injury.
Basically, when you see it fix it.
5. What are the signs of a Tension Pneu- JVD
mothorax? Tachycardia
Abnormal or diminished lung sounds
Tachypnea
Hyper-resonance to percussion
Tracheal Deviation
6. What is the number one cause of airway Tongue
obstruction?
7. What is the treatment for an eviscera- Apply wet dressing, then apply dry dressing and
tion: secure it.
8. Difference between compensated and Compensated leads into decompensated. In
decompensated shock: decompensated you will have hypotension,
ALOC and absent or weak peripheral pulses.
9. Name three types of mechanical shock: Obstructive: Cardiac Tamponade, Tension Pneu-
mothorax, Massive Pulmonary Embolism
Cardiogenic: Myocardial contusion, Myocardial
Infarction
1. What is the Golden Hour? First 60 minutes after traumatic injury
2. Describe Platinum 10 minutes: Time that it should take to load and go
3. Describe the windshield survey: When arriving on scene, scan through the wind-
shield to look at what is all involved in the scene.
This is a crucial part of scene safety.
4. Describe the fix it process: If something is injured like a sucking chest
wound, fix it and move on to the next injury.
Basically, when you see it fix it.
5. What are the signs of a Tension Pneu- JVD
mothorax? Tachycardia
Abnormal or diminished lung sounds
Tachypnea
Hyper-resonance to percussion
Tracheal Deviation
6. What is the number one cause of airway Tongue
obstruction?
7. What is the treatment for an eviscera- Apply wet dressing, then apply dry dressing and
tion: secure it.
8. Difference between compensated and Compensated leads into decompensated. In
decompensated shock: decompensated you will have hypotension,
ALOC and absent or weak peripheral pulses.
9. Name three types of mechanical shock: Obstructive: Cardiac Tamponade, Tension Pneu-
mothorax, Massive Pulmonary Embolism
Cardiogenic: Myocardial contusion, Myocardial
Infarction
