MCQs on TRANSFUSION, SHOCK, BURNS AND WOUND HEALING - General Surgery MCQs

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# Incompatible blood transfusion leads to all except:
a) Increased plasma bilirubin
b) Increased plasma prothrombin
c) Jaundice
d) Renal failure

# The best method of controlling bleeding is to:
a) Apply a tourniquet
b) Apply direct pressure to the injury
c) Compress pressure points between the injury and the heart
d) Bandage the area

# Secondary hemorrhage appears in:

a) 7-14-days 

b) Within 6 hours

c) Due to Slipping of ligature

d) Bleeding disorders

# Clotting capacity of blood after storage:

a) Improves 

b) Not altered if kept at 4°C

c) Not altered if used within 3 days

d) Diminishes

# The sodium excretion shut down following trauma remains for:

a) 6 hours 

b) 24 hours

c) 36 hours 

d) 48 hours

# A patient of burns should be given:

a) 5% dextrose 

b) Hypertonic saline 0.9%

c) Dextrose saline 

d) Human albumin 4.5%

# Whole blood is stored at:

a)18-22 degree C

b) 4-8 degree C

c) 0 degree C

d) At room temperature

# SAG-M blood is useful in:

a) Anaemia

c) Burns

b) Haemophilia A

d) DIC

# Following infection can be transmitted by blood transfusion:

a) HIV

c) Malaria

b) Hepatitis B

d) All of the above

# Hemorrhage occurring due to raised blood pressure is :

a) Reactionary 

b) Secondary

c) Both of the above 

d) None of the above

# Reactionary haemorrhage occurs:

a) Within 24 hours of surgery

b) After 48 hours of surgery

c) After 72 hours of surgery

d) After 7-14 days of surgery

# Surgery should be carried out in a haemophilic patient if

the factor VIII concentration is raised to:

a) 2 - 20% 

b) 20 - 40%

c) 50 - 100% 

d) 100%

# Which of the following statements is true?

a) Elderly patients sustaining trauma should be given packed RBC 

b) One unit of blood raises Hb% concentration by 1 gm%

c) Massive blood transfusion leads to hyperkalemia

d) All of the above

# Following trauma or surgery which of the following fluids

should be avoided?

a) 5% dextrose 

b) Isotonic saline

c) Ringers lactate 

d) Blood

# Which of the following is incorrectly matched?

a) Thrombocytopenia - platelet rich plasma

b) Haemophilia - Cryoprecipitate

c) Burns - Packed red cells

d) DIC - fibrinogen

# Massive blood transfusions may be complicated by:

a) Hypokalemia 

b) Hypercalcemia

c) Leucopenia 

d) Coagulopathy

# Hypovolemic shock is seen when fluid loss is:

a) 10 - 20% 

b) 20 - 45%

c) 50 - 70% 

d) 70 - 80%

# Patient with severe acidosis is treated with: 

a) i.v. NaHCo3

b) Ringers lactate

c) Dextrose 

d) None of the above

# Common reaction to blood transfusion may include all except: (KAR -01)

a) Fever

b) Hypocalcemia

c) Hemolysis

d) Urticaria

# Stored plasma is deficient in: (KAR -01)

a) Factors 7 and 8

b) Factors 2 and 5

c) Factors 5 and 8

d) Factors 7 and 9

# Shock is a circulatory disturbance characterized by: (AIPG -03)

a) Increased blood

b) Elevated body temperature

c) Increased atmospheric pressure

d) Decreased volume of circulating blood

#  The best dressing for open wounds is: (AIPG -99)

a) Skin

b) Amnion

c) Opsite

d) Tulle grass