SAQ 1034 – Trauma – hypotension after motor vehicle crash

A 54-year-old driver has crashed into a tree. He has forehead and anterior chest-wall contusions and a swollen, deformed right knee.

He is alert but tachycardic and hypotensive, with oxygen saturation 98% on 6 L oxygen.

List five causes of hypotension in trauma other than haemorrhagic blood loss.

(Marked out of 5.0)

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Complete the table for blunt cardiac injury types and expected features.

(Marked out of 6.0)
</p> <table class="saq-prop-table" style="width: 100%; max-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse;"> <thead> <tr> <th style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;">Type of blunt cardiac injury</th> <th style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;">Expected features</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;"></td> <td style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;"></td> <td style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;"></td> <td style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>

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Discuss controversies in using troponin assays to screen for blunt cardiac injury.

(Marked out of 4.0)

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