2012 Advance Trauma Life Support Reviewer

Lake EMS

Name: Date:

1. In what year was ATLS formed to standardize care?

2. What is the formula to figure out Pulse Pressure?

3. What Pulse Pressure, according to ATLS, is considered “High” (express your answer
in mmHg)

4. List the phases of ATLS

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5. What is Hypotension considered until proven otherwise? (Slide #17)

6. ATLS advises that hypovolemia should not be treated with three specific treatments,
what are they?

7. True or False: A rapid neurologic evaluation should be done at the end of the
secondary survey?

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8. There are multiple intravenous fluids that can be utilized when treating trauma
patients, name 4.
1.
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3.
4.

9. True or False “Blood” is an example of a Colloid solution.

10. What crystalloid solution is used for large volume fluid replacement?

11. What is the name of the procedure where physicians allow patients’ BP to remain
low to allow clots to stabilize?

12. What is the mortality rate when tourniquets are applied after shock symptoms?

13. How much blood is lost in Class III hemorrhagic shock? (expressed in ml)

14. According to ATLS, what is the #1 cause of traumatic death?

15. What Grade of concussion is defined by the following statement? “Concussions

where a patient experiences a LOC for less than 1 minute”.

16. What hematoma affecting the head experiences a “Lucid” moment or interval?

17. What does CPP stand for?

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18. What type of facial fracture is expressed in the following definition:
“The entire maxilla and one or more facial bones are completely separated
from the craniofacial skeleton; such fractures are almost always accompanied
by multiple fractures of the facial bones”

19. According to ATLS, what type of traumatic shock should be treated with
vasopressors and atropine?

20. What spinal cord injury has a loss of pain and temperature sensation on the opposite
side from the injury, generally caused by a penetrating trauma?

21. According to ATLS what percentage of trauma deaths are caused by chest injury?

22. What injury requires the treatment Pericardiocentesis?

23. True or False: According to ATLS, one should place slight pressure on an
eviscerated bowel?

24. Name the sign: “bruising in the subcutaneous fatty tissue around the umbilicus”

25. What is the most likely cause of preterm labor in trauma patients?

26. True or False: tachycardia & hypotension should be considered accurate indicators of
shock?

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27. What injury compresses the nerves, vessels and muscle inside a closed space and can
lead to tissue death from a lack of oxygen?

28. Complete the following statements concerning spinal cord injuries:

Injury higher than (>) Thoracic vertebra 1 =
Injury lower than (<) Thoracic vertebra 1 =

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