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Question #: 36
Topic #: 1
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Paradoxical motion of the chest during exhalation is often caused by what type of injury?

  • A. Larynx
  • B. Criciod Cartilage
  • C. Epiglottis
  • D. Diaphragm
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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️
A Flail Chest occurs when multiple adjacent ribs are broken in multiple places, separating a segment, so a part of the chest wall moves independently. This independent movement is known as Paradoxical motion.

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Sunshinedaisies
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Blunt chest trauma would be the injury and paradoxical motion would be the symptom.
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Sunshinedaisies
6 months, 3 weeks ago
These are not the correct corresponding answers to this question. Tio97 is correct.
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Ahsan11
1 year, 3 months ago
Flail chest
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MELSTORM
1 year, 3 months ago
I agree with tio97.
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Tio97
2 years, 2 months ago
the options to this question actually don't make sense. Flail chest movement is when three or more adjacent ribs are fractured in at at-least two places causing paradoxical motion, caused by blunt chest trauma.
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