Part of the Trauma practice questions exam area.
This page holds 200 free practice questions for Chapter 30, Trauma Systems and Mechanism of Injury, covering trauma systems and trauma center levels, the national field triage guideline, kinematics and the three collisions, motor vehicle, motorcycle, and pedestrian mechanisms, falls and blunt trauma, gunshot and stab wounds, blast injuries, and trauma assessment and transport decisions. They are written for paramedic and EMT students working through Nancy Caroline's Emergency Care in the Streets, 9th edition. Every question shows the correct answer with a short explanation as soon as you tap, so you learn while you test rather than waiting until the end.
Study it two ways: the 10 Question Blitz, a quick round where every right answer lights a siren and any misses lead into Lights & Sirens, a 5-in-a-row drill on that section, or the full 100-question test drawn at random from the whole chapter. After each test you get a score and a section-by-section breakdown. Progress on the full test is saved on your device, so you can stop and pick up later.
In the classic trimodal pattern of trauma deaths, the third peak occurs days to weeks after injury and is caused mainly by:
Answer: B. Sepsis and multiple organ failure
The first peak (seconds to minutes) is from unsurvivable brain, high spinal cord, heart, or great vessel injury; the second (minutes to hours) is mainly from hemorrhage that may be survivable, as in 01#2; the third (days to weeks) comes from infection, sepsis, and organ failure. Good early care, including fast hemorrhage control and avoiding hypoxia, reduces late deaths too. Airway obstruction and a ruptured spleen cause early deaths.
Kinematics, as applied to trauma, is the study of:
Answer: A. How energy and motion cause injury
Understanding how forces were applied lets the paramedic predict injuries before they show. Drug movement through the body is pharmacokinetics, a similar-sounding but unrelated term.
The five basic types of motor vehicle collision are frontal, lateral, rear-end, rollover, and:
Answer: D. Rotational
Rotational impacts occur when one corner of a vehicle is struck and it spins, combining frontal and lateral injury patterns. Compression is a force, not a collision type.
Most students use the 10 Question Blitz for daily practice and take the full 100-question test in the days before a class exam or NREMT practice. Lights & Sirens after a blitz is the fastest way to close gaps the night before a test.
Every question in this chapter is also listed by section, with answers, on the topic pages above. See all paramedic topics or take the NREMT paramedic practice test.
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