TCAR EXAMPREP REVIEW SHEET TESTED
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
●● In the US, the most frequent cause of trauma center admissions is?
Answer: Falls
●● In the US, fatal penetrating trauma is usually the result of ?
Answer: Bullets
●● Many trauma centers do not consider poisoning, suffocation, bites,
strings, overexertion, and drowning victims to be "trauma" because ?
Answer: The sx oriented focus of the trauma centers has little to
contribute to their care.
●● Which of the following is NOT one of the 4 general trauma pt triage
categories?
Answer: Geographical location of injury
Categories include: Injury patterns, mental status & VS, MOI, and EMS
judgement
●● In adults, which of the following findings meets mental status & VS
trauma triage criteria?
, Answer: SBP 88 & GCS 5
●● Injury patterns trauma triage include?
Answer: Depressed skull fx & bleeding requiring tourniquet
●● Mechanism of injury triage category includes?
Answer: In car with someone who died, fell from a roof, and thrown 20
ft in van rollover
Not: rammed a bicycle into a parked bus
●● Which pt falls in the trauma triage category of EMS judgement?
Answer: 24wk pregnant driver involved in MVC & construction worker
who amputated 3 fingers with a table saw
NOT: teenager hit on the head with bat & GCS 10 and skateboarder who
fell & has wrist deformity
●● Trauma pt mortality directly correlates with _______ to trauma
center access?
Answer: Time
●● Which of the following are essential trauma center services?
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
●● In the US, the most frequent cause of trauma center admissions is?
Answer: Falls
●● In the US, fatal penetrating trauma is usually the result of ?
Answer: Bullets
●● Many trauma centers do not consider poisoning, suffocation, bites,
strings, overexertion, and drowning victims to be "trauma" because ?
Answer: The sx oriented focus of the trauma centers has little to
contribute to their care.
●● Which of the following is NOT one of the 4 general trauma pt triage
categories?
Answer: Geographical location of injury
Categories include: Injury patterns, mental status & VS, MOI, and EMS
judgement
●● In adults, which of the following findings meets mental status & VS
trauma triage criteria?
, Answer: SBP 88 & GCS 5
●● Injury patterns trauma triage include?
Answer: Depressed skull fx & bleeding requiring tourniquet
●● Mechanism of injury triage category includes?
Answer: In car with someone who died, fell from a roof, and thrown 20
ft in van rollover
Not: rammed a bicycle into a parked bus
●● Which pt falls in the trauma triage category of EMS judgement?
Answer: 24wk pregnant driver involved in MVC & construction worker
who amputated 3 fingers with a table saw
NOT: teenager hit on the head with bat & GCS 10 and skateboarder who
fell & has wrist deformity
●● Trauma pt mortality directly correlates with _______ to trauma
center access?
Answer: Time
●● Which of the following are essential trauma center services?
