Title: Describe chest trauma.
Course: Emergency Medical Responder (14055-IV) > Section: Managing Traumatic Injuries

Description should include

- differentiation between blunt and penetrating injuries to the chest
- appropriate management of both closed and open chest injuries
- appropriate management of an impaled object in the chest.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What is another name for sucking chest injuries?
- What is a pneumothorax?