Trauma Nursing Process Review: Step-by-Step
Assessment and Critical Care Priorities
Explained
**Question 1**
What is the best measure of the adequacy of cellular perfusion and helps predict
the outcome of resuscitation?
☑ Base deficit used in conjunction with serum lactate
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**Question 2**
Will hypocapnia cause vasoconstriction or vasodilation, especially in the cerebral
vasculature?
☑ Vasoconstriction
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**Question 3**
What results from tissue hypo perfusion and oxygen deficit?
,☑ Metabolic acidosis
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**Question 4**
What type of shock results in generalized vasodilation?
☑ Neurogenic shock
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**Question 5**
Spinal cord injuries at C3-C5 causes loss of what nerves function, resulting in
what?
☑ Phrenic nerve; paralyzed diaphragm and inability to breath
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**Question 6**
Extremity elevation AT the level of the heart is beneficial for what type of injury?
☑ Compartment Syndrome
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**Question 7**
What is a high risk of frostbite?
☑ Thrombus formation
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**Question 8**
What two medications can be administered to maintain perfusion after a frostbite
injury along with rewarming?
☑ Tissue plasminogen activator or non steroidal anti-inflammatory medication
(NSAIDS)
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**Question 9**
An rise in diastolic blood pressures is a sign of increasing what?
☑ Peripheral resistance
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, **Question 10**
What position will benefit the airway and work of breathing for the bariatric
patient?
☑ Reverse Trendelenburg
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**Question 11**
Which phase of a blast results from flying debris, projectiles, and bomb
fragments causing lacerations or penetrating injuries?
☑ Secondary Phase
________________________________________________
**Question 12**
What phase of a blast results from any explosion-related illness or injury
including hyperglycemia, hypertension, angina, asthma, COPD, or sepsis?
☑ Quaternary Phase
________________________________________________
Assessment and Critical Care Priorities
Explained
**Question 1**
What is the best measure of the adequacy of cellular perfusion and helps predict
the outcome of resuscitation?
☑ Base deficit used in conjunction with serum lactate
________________________________________________
**Question 2**
Will hypocapnia cause vasoconstriction or vasodilation, especially in the cerebral
vasculature?
☑ Vasoconstriction
________________________________________________
**Question 3**
What results from tissue hypo perfusion and oxygen deficit?
,☑ Metabolic acidosis
________________________________________________
**Question 4**
What type of shock results in generalized vasodilation?
☑ Neurogenic shock
________________________________________________
**Question 5**
Spinal cord injuries at C3-C5 causes loss of what nerves function, resulting in
what?
☑ Phrenic nerve; paralyzed diaphragm and inability to breath
________________________________________________
**Question 6**
Extremity elevation AT the level of the heart is beneficial for what type of injury?
☑ Compartment Syndrome
,________________________________________________
**Question 7**
What is a high risk of frostbite?
☑ Thrombus formation
________________________________________________
**Question 8**
What two medications can be administered to maintain perfusion after a frostbite
injury along with rewarming?
☑ Tissue plasminogen activator or non steroidal anti-inflammatory medication
(NSAIDS)
________________________________________________
**Question 9**
An rise in diastolic blood pressures is a sign of increasing what?
☑ Peripheral resistance
________________________________________________
, **Question 10**
What position will benefit the airway and work of breathing for the bariatric
patient?
☑ Reverse Trendelenburg
________________________________________________
**Question 11**
Which phase of a blast results from flying debris, projectiles, and bomb
fragments causing lacerations or penetrating injuries?
☑ Secondary Phase
________________________________________________
**Question 12**
What phase of a blast results from any explosion-related illness or injury
including hyperglycemia, hypertension, angina, asthma, COPD, or sepsis?
☑ Quaternary Phase
________________________________________________
