EMS CH 26 HOMEWORK 54 TERMS
Abdominal bruising should be considered a sign of possible:
internal organ damage.
The structures within the dermis include:
sweat glands.
Which of the following statements about electrical burns is TRUE?
. All tissues between the entrance and exit wounds will potentially be injured.
Your patient has burns to the entire right arm and the anterior chest. What is the estimated surface area involved?
18 percent
You are called to the scene of a patient who was burned by an electrical shock while installing a washing machine. On your arrival, the patient is lying beside the washing machine he was working on. What is your FIRST consideration for this patient?
Assume the source of electricity is still active.
A way of identifying the seriousness of a burn is by its degree. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A full-thickness burn is also known as a third-degree burn.
What is the FIRST step in removing dry chemicals from the body?
Brush off the excess material.
Your patient has sustained a chemical burn to her hands from dry lime. How is this treated in the field?
Brush off the powder before using water to flush.
You are caring for a victim who was rescued from a burning building by the fire department. The patient is alert and oriented with superficial burns to the arms, chest, neck, and face. He complains that he cannot breathe well. What is this patient's MOST critical injury?
Burns to the face
You are dispatched to the scene of a construction site where a 33-year-old male has been impaled with a piece of rebar to his right anterior chest near the clavicle. The rebar is too long to allow transport of the patient. The patient is alert and seated on the ground. How should you manage this injury?
Contact medical control and ensure someone stabilizes the object while it is gently cut to the desired length.
A patient has partial-thickness burns over 35 percent of her body, including both feet. Which of the following classifications does this patient's burns fall under?
Critical
What is the resulting injury called when the burn penetrates all the way to the bottom layer of skin?
Full thickness
A patient with an electrical injury is LEAST likely to present with which of the following signs and symptoms?
Hypotension
You arrive on scene to an assault. Law enforcement has secured the scene. Your patient is a 23-year-old male with a blood soaked shirt. The patient states that the assailant "slashed at him with a box opener." You expose the chest and note a jagged cut on his left anterior chest with steady, dark red hemorrhaging. Based on this assessment finding, the wound is MOST likely which of the following?
Laceration
Crush injuries often depend on what to identify?
Mechanism of injury
In treating open wounds to the neck or abdomen, which type of dressing is preferred?
Occlusive dressing
The skin serves which of the following functions?
Protection
Which of the following burns in an adult patient would be considered minor in terms of severity?
Superficial burns over the front and back of both arms
What is the primary risk for electrical injury patients?
Respiratory or cardiac arrest
In addition to protection, what is another function of the skin?
Sensation
In a contusion, what remains intact?
The epidermis
Which of the following statements about a partial thickness burn is TRUE?
The formation of blisters is common.
What is an example of classifying a burn by agent and source?
Thermal burn from excessively hot coffee
You arrive on scene to a residence where you find a 16-year-old female patient who was shocked while plugging in an appliance in the garage. Her father states that he heard the shock and saw her get "thrown to the ground." The patient is awake and alert still lying on the ground. Based on the patient's presentation, how should you manage this patient's injury?
This patient should be fully immobilized.
Which of the following is a guideline for the treatment of chemical burns?
Wash away the chemical with flowing water.
Possible injury to the cervical spine or brain could be indicated by:
a bruise on the head or neck.
A swelling caused by the collection of blood under the skin or in damaged tissues as a result of an injured or broken blood vessel is:
a hematoma.
When assessing a patient, consider the possibility of closed soft-tissue injuries whenever there is swelling, pain, ordeformity, as well as
a mechanism of blunt trauma.
If a child pulled a boiling pot of water off the stove and was burned by it, this burn would be:
a thermal burn.
Scraping, rubbing, or shearing away of the outermost layer of the skin is called:
an abrasion.
A degloving injury is an example of:
an avulsion.
A burn injury should be considered to be:
an injury with the potential for many far-reaching effects.
Your 24-year-old patient was riding an ATV through the woods and impaled herself on a dead tree branch. The one-inch diameter branch went in through her mouth and out her right cheek before breaking from the tree. You can see both ends of the penetrating branch. On your arrival, the patient is bleeding heavily into her mouth and is struggling to breathe unless she is leaning forward. To gain control of the patient's bleeding and thereby her airway, you should:
attempt to remove the object.
Your patient was involved in a serious industrial accident and sustained critical electrical burns to both his hands when he accidently grabbed a live wire. Despite the severity of his burns, the patient says he doesn't feel that bad. This patient will need to:
be transported as soon as possible.
The emotional and psychological damage from burn injuries:
begins at the emergency scene.
An internal injury with no open pathway from the outside is called:
closed
To control bleeding, start with:
direct pressure and elevation.
The sterile material that is placed directly on a wound is termed the:
dressing.
The skin is the largest organ of the body. It is composed of three layers, including the:
epidermis.
Chemical burns to the eyes should be:
flushed with water.
White and dry to dark brown or black and charred skin is a sign of a:
full thickness burn.
A wound under the skin that involves the collection of blood from injury to a large blood vessel is called a:
hematoma.
Burns to the face are considered critical because:
of the potential for respiratory compromise or eye injury.
You are assessing a patient and notice red discoloration with blisters on the legs. This type of burn would be classified as:
partial thickness.
A puncture wound that is shallow or deep is a:
penetrating puncture wound.
To stabilize an object impaled in an eye, you should:
place a roll of 3-inch gauze bandage or folded 4 x 4s on either side of theobject,along the vertical axis of thehead,in a manner that will stabilize the object
After treating an actively bleeding head laceration with a sterile dressing and bandage, you notice that the dressing has become blood-soaked and that blood is seeping through the bandage. You should:
place additional sterile dressings over the blood-soaked dressing and bandage firmly.
Swelling or deformity at the site of a bruise indicates a:
possible underlying fracture.
Lacerations are cuts that are:
smooth or jagged.
It is characteristic of hemostatic dressings to:
stop or slow bleeding.
Burns pose greater risks to infants and children than to adults because:
their body surface area is greater in relation to their total body size.
Singed nasal hairs in a burned patient is an ominous sign because:
they indicate airway damage.
In treating a puncture wound of the eye, if you bandage both eyes, it is because:
you want to avoid sympathetic eye movement.
A bruise on the abdomen could indicate injury to which of the following?
Spleen, liver, or kidneys
