True or False? You are providing care for a 40-year-old male who dropped a drinking glass in his kitchen. The glass shattered and he sustained a laceration to his right eyelid. Based on this information, you should also suspect a penetrating object in the eye.
Answer:True
According to above case, there may be possible chances that some of the minute particles of the glass may penetrate the object in the eye. So it is necessary to suspect this condition.
True or False? You are providing care for a 40-year-old male who dropped a drinking glass...
True or False? You are providing care to a 19-year-old male who has been stabbed in the right upper quadrant of his abdomen. The knife is still in place and the victim is in a great deal of pain. Your priority should be to stabilize the object with bulky dressings and place him on his left side with his knees tucked up.
True or False? You are providing care for a 40-year-old female who fell through a plate glass window. The victim sustained a large wound to her left abdomen and it appears that her abdominal contents are protruding out. You should cover the wound with moist dressings.
True or False? You are providing care to a 12-year-old male who fell off his bicycle, striking his abdomen on the handlebars. He is now crying and complaining of pain in his left upper quadrant. This is an example of blunt trauma.
True or False? You are providing care to a 23-year-old male who was struck on the side of the chest with a baseball bat. The victim has pain and is having difficulty breathing. It is clear that the victim has sustained a lung injury and that air has been allowed to build up in the chest cavity, reducing heart and lung function. This is known as a flail chest
True or False? You are providing care to a 34-year-old male who slipped on a patch of ice and fell backwards, striking his elbow. The victim is holding his arm in a bent position. In order to splint the extremity, you should have him let the arm hang down from his side to find a normal anatomical alignment.
True or False? You are providing care to a 33-year-old male patient who was in a motor vehicle collision and has what appears to be a depressed skull fracture. The wound is bleeding profusely. You should control the bleeding with direct pressure
True or False? You are proving care to a 28-year-old male who fell from his motorcycle and has sustained an open fracture to this right lower leg with the bone protruding through the skin. Your first step in the treatment is to immobilize the leg in the position found.
True or False? You are providing care to a 55-year-old female who fell into some furniture and sustained an injury to her right chest. There is no indication of a spinal injury but the victim is complaining of pain and shortness of breath. She should be placed on her right side.
True or False? You are providing care to a 22-year-old female who struck her head while playing ice hockey. Based on this information, you should also suspect spinal injury.
True or False? You are providing care for a 16-year-old female who fell from a tree about 12 feet to the ground. The victim's left upper leg is bruised and swollen and she appears to have fractured her femur. It also appears that there is significant bleeding. While you are waiting for EMS to arrive, you should immobilize and elevate the leg 8 to 12 inches.