Chapter 23: Chest Trauma

Question 1

Aneurysm

Answer 1

Ballooning of an artery that weakens it and predisposes it to rupture

Question 2

Aortic Rupture

Answer 2

Development of a leak in the largest blood vessel in the body.

result in massive bleeding that is usually fatal

Question 3

Closed chest Injury

Answer 3

A chest injury without penetration of the chest cavity

Question 4

Commotio Cordis

Answer 4

Sudden cardiac death due to blunt chest trauma without any observable chest or cardiac damage

Question 5

Flail Chest

Answer 5

A condition in which two or more adjacent ribs are fractured in two or more places, causing a free-floating segment of the chest wall

Question 6

Hemoptysis

Answer 6

Coughing up blood in the pleural space

Question 7

Myocardial Contusion

Answer 7

Bruise of the heart muscle

Question 8

Open Chest injury

Answer 8

Penetration of the chest wall.

AKA sucking chest would

Question 9

Paradoxical Motion

Answer 9

Inward ovement of a flail chest segment upon inhalation

Question 10

Tension pneumothorax

Answer 10

the accumulation of presssurized air within the pleural space.

causes the displacement of the great vessels, tracheal deviation, distension of the jugular veins, and compression of the other lung

Question 11

Traumatic asphyxia

Answer 11

The inability to breathe and hypoxia that results from the inability of the chest wall to expand due to external pressure or massive crushing trauma.