NREMT Trauma Jeopardy 

Congratulations!! Thank you so much for participating in jeopardy and for letting us know you passed! Best of luck to you in your EMS career.

While there may be some differences between books, a few principles apply to patients in general. You can remove an impaled object from the cheek-but you don’t have to. If there is bleeding and the patient can suction themselves reliably, good. But when the bleeding is voluminous, the patient can’t or won’t cooperate, or if ventilation is required, removing it is likely the best option. This is done here and not in most other places in the body because we can access both sides of the object-and ultimately provide pressure to stop bleeding on both sides of the wound. Objects in the chest are usually left in place. An exception may be when the object interferes with CPR-but in the case of an impaled object in a pulseless patient, the outlook is quite beak to begin with, and we must do the best we can with what we have.