Evaluating Chest Trauma

Matching exercise

Match the items on the left to the items on the right.

Usually from a penetrating wound to the chest allowing communication between the pleural space and the external environment
Air enters the peural space but cannot exit creating progressively increasing intrathoracic pressure
Common in penetrating and blunt chest injuries, lung compression occurs related to blood accumulation within the thoracic cavity
A seegment of the chest wall is not continuous with the rest of the thoracic cage leading to respiratory distress
hemorrhage ,edema and microatelectasis within the lung tissue as the result of high speed accidents
Subcutaneous and mediastinal emphysema, hemoptysis, dyspnea
Laceration of blood vessels within the chest cavity that results in blood accumulating in the mediastinal area and compromising cardiac function
Movement of bone fragments, crepitation, ecchymosis along the chest wall
Dyspnea relieved by the insertion of a NG tube, chest or shoulder pain, cyanosis, and left upper quadrant tenderness following a penetrating wound to the thorax or abdomen
Persons experiencing unrestrained frontal or lateral collisions with a chest xray showing a widening mediastinum and right tracheal shift