Primary Survey - Circulation

Question 1

Becks Triad

Answer 1

Cardiac tamponade

Muffled heart sounds
Distended neck veins
Hypotension (narrow pulse pressure)

Question 2

A venous tourniquet should be place no further away than …cm from the needle insertion site

Answer 2

10cm

Question 3

Arterial injury shock is?

Answer 3

A term used to describe the physiological response to sudden loss of elastic arterial diastolic recoil due to major arterial vascular injury.

Question 4

Following IO insertion, the humeral head and sternal insertion permit flow rates….. than those in the tibia

Answer 4

5 times higher

Question 5

Hypocalcaemia is present in up to … of major trauma patients

Answer 5

60%

Question 6

The rapid reversal of warfarin in life threatening hemorrhage can be done with

Answer 6

Vitamin K & prothrombin complex concentrate