ultimate atls 10 prep
sample practice questions
Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) questions often create serious anxiety among certifying exam attendees. People search the internet looking for questions and answers to the written exam for a given year. In developing The Ultimate ATLS 10 Prep Course, we put a lot of time into providing the thinking and rationale for getting to the correct answer. When you take the course you will find Chapter Questions, Quiz Questions, Practice Test Questions, and Post Test Questions. Plenty of questions!
I’ve just included a few questions here so you can see a little bit of what you can expect in the course but more than that. People should be able to follow the thinking behind the question. Hopefully this will go a long way on exam day to help get folks to the right answer in the time that is allotted for the test.
QUESTION #1
A 19 year old man hiking in the national forest fell 10 feet through a rotten plank in an old wooden bridge to the rocky stream below. He was transported to the ED within 30 minutes complaining chest pain. He is hypotensive on arrival to the ED. What do you do?
A. 2L bolus crystalloid
B. Send to OR
C. Crack the chest
D. 1L bolus crystalloid
E. CT chest/abd/pelvis
QUESTION #2
A 48 year old man was beaten in his home, with a wooden bat, in a robbery by two assailants. He is transported to the ED, hemodynamically stable with hemoptysis and cervical subQ emphysema. Which of the following statements is correct:
A. This condition is not immediately life-threatening and further evaluation should wait until the secondary survey has been completed.
B. Fiber optic assisted intubation may be indicated
C. Perform immediate needle decompression
D. Bronchoscopy should not be attempted as it may worsen the injury
E. Immediately place a gastric tube to prevent aspiration
QUESTION #3
A mildly hypotensive patient, tachycardic, BP normalizes after 1L fluid bolus but begins to drop again. What do you do?
A. Give 2nd liter bolus of crystalloid
B. Start transfusing blood
C. Transfer to higher level of care
D. Obtain CT to determine source of bleeding
E. Place a Swan Gantz catheter for more invasive monitoring
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