Author Question: Your patient had a sudden deceleration injury and struck the windshield with his head. As a result ... (Read 92 times)

Hungry! · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

Your patient had a sudden deceleration injury and struck the windshield with his head. As a result of the sudden stoppage, you suspect that the patient has suffered a(n):

A) vascular lesion.
B) comminuted injury.
C) open brain injury.
D) coup-contrecoup injury.

Question 2

A breathing pattern characterized by progressive increasing, then subsiding, rate and volume of respirations, interrupted by periods of apnea is known as:

A) Kussmaul's respirations.
B) apneustic respirations.
C) Cheyne-Stokes.
D) Biot's.