Eye, Ear, and Nose Injuries
Lesson 4: Treat Lacerations, Contusions, and Extrusions of the Eye
Exercises: Lesson 4
EXERCISES, LESSON 4
INSTRUCTIONS: The following exercises are to be answered by marking the lettered response(s) that best answer(s) the question or best completes the incomplete statement or by writing the answer in the space provided.
After you have completed all the exercises, turn to "Solutions to Exercises" at the end of the lesson and check your answers.
1. How would you position an unconscious patient who has a laceration, contusion,
or extrusion of the eye?
a. Have patient stand up.
b. Place patient on his back.
c. Place patient on his side.
d. Place patient in a sitting position.
2. Which of the following treatments is NOT done to an injury to tissue surrounding
the eye?
a. Cover injured eye with loose dressing.
b. Cover torn eyelids with loose dressing.
c. Place first aid field dressing over eye pad on injured eye.
d. Cover uninjured eye with eye pad or other sterile dressing.
3. ____________________ may or may not be present to an injury of the eyeball.
4. Which of the following procedures is correct when treating a patient's eye injury of
a protruding object?
a. Place padding around impaled object.
b. Do not apply pressure to the eyeball.
c. Use tape to hold impaled object in place.
d. Remind patient not to squeeze his eyelids together.
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