BCEN CFRN Exam - Questions With Accurate Solutions
If a Trauma patient's airway pressures and plateau pressure increase, what
should you do?
What is happening?
How would you know if tube has dislodged? Right Ans - -Needle decomp
-Tension pneumo
-low pressure alarm
What does it mean if you see Q waves? Right Ans - -Myocardial necrosis
When a patient is involved in a trauma, what is the most important
HISTORICAL question to ask? Right Ans - -Are you taking any meds
What is the concern for somebody who has had 24 hours of rupture of
membranes?
What do they need? Right Ans - -Sepsis/infection
-ABX
If a freshly intubated pediatric patient has correct ventilator settings and has
no chest rise with hypercarbia, what do you get rid of?
Why? Right Ans - -Inline suction and elbow
-The inline suction and elbow have up to 80 ml of dead space
Upon descent, if the Vt drops. What do you check (deflated)? What law
addresses this? Right Ans - -Cuff pressure
-Boyle's Law
, If a baby is persistently tachycardic, what can you do (position, O2, Fluids)?
Right Ans - -Place mom on left, oxygen, IV F
If a family member is acting crazy, do you let them come on the aircraft?
Right Ans - -No
If a trauma patient has already received blood, what else can you give them?
Right Ans - TxA
What usually happens after chest trauma and is typically delayed?
what else does it present with (PP, sputum, o2) Right Ans - Pulmonary
Contusion
-Increased peak pressures, hemoptysis, hypoxia
What are two common factors for fatal HEMS crashes? Right Ans - -Pilot
error and night flight
What can be used to fix Hyperkalemia U waves? Right Ans - -Calcium,
Sodium Bicarb, Insulin
Why use a miller blade to intubate a child?
What kind of ETT for peds?
What age for cric? Right Ans - -Epiglottis is large and floppy
-Cuffed
-Above 10
Who is at risk for a spontaneous pneumo? Right Ans - -young, tall, skinny
guys
What causes an esophageal injury?
What is the treatment for this?
If a Trauma patient's airway pressures and plateau pressure increase, what
should you do?
What is happening?
How would you know if tube has dislodged? Right Ans - -Needle decomp
-Tension pneumo
-low pressure alarm
What does it mean if you see Q waves? Right Ans - -Myocardial necrosis
When a patient is involved in a trauma, what is the most important
HISTORICAL question to ask? Right Ans - -Are you taking any meds
What is the concern for somebody who has had 24 hours of rupture of
membranes?
What do they need? Right Ans - -Sepsis/infection
-ABX
If a freshly intubated pediatric patient has correct ventilator settings and has
no chest rise with hypercarbia, what do you get rid of?
Why? Right Ans - -Inline suction and elbow
-The inline suction and elbow have up to 80 ml of dead space
Upon descent, if the Vt drops. What do you check (deflated)? What law
addresses this? Right Ans - -Cuff pressure
-Boyle's Law
, If a baby is persistently tachycardic, what can you do (position, O2, Fluids)?
Right Ans - -Place mom on left, oxygen, IV F
If a family member is acting crazy, do you let them come on the aircraft?
Right Ans - -No
If a trauma patient has already received blood, what else can you give them?
Right Ans - TxA
What usually happens after chest trauma and is typically delayed?
what else does it present with (PP, sputum, o2) Right Ans - Pulmonary
Contusion
-Increased peak pressures, hemoptysis, hypoxia
What are two common factors for fatal HEMS crashes? Right Ans - -Pilot
error and night flight
What can be used to fix Hyperkalemia U waves? Right Ans - -Calcium,
Sodium Bicarb, Insulin
Why use a miller blade to intubate a child?
What kind of ETT for peds?
What age for cric? Right Ans - -Epiglottis is large and floppy
-Cuffed
-Above 10
Who is at risk for a spontaneous pneumo? Right Ans - -young, tall, skinny
guys
What causes an esophageal injury?
What is the treatment for this?
