Initial Assessment
Primary Assessment
Radio Communications
Secondary Assessment
Assessment Mnemonics
100
This is technically what you may assess first on observing your patient.
What is level of consciousness?
100
The purpose of this assessment is to identify ______ injuries.
What are ABC injuries?
100
This is who we are talking to most of the time on the radio.
What is Dispatch?
100
This is the part of the body that is inspected in detail in the secondary assessment but not in the primary assessment.
What is the head?
100
This is "A" in DCAPP BTLS.
What is abrasions?
200
This is what you should do if your patient is bleeding.
What is take a gloved hand and apply direct pressure?
200
We palpate the posterior of the neck looking for_____, at the _____?
What is step-offs/crepitus at the C7 vertebrae?
200
These are radio terms that indicate the listener understands what the talker has just conveyed.
What is "copy", "direct" or "roger?"
200
This is the plane of the body that is not assessed in the secondary assessment but is assessed in the primary assessment.
What is the posterior or dorsal plane?
200
This is similar to "events" in SAMPLE but is part of OPQRST.
What is onset?
300
This is a rate of 12 to 20 and equal, appropriate chest rise.
What is adequate breathing?
300
We inspect the trachea to see if it is____?
What is midline?
300
This is what the fire and rescue unit that is responding should always identify when talking on the radio.
What is its call sign? (i.e., Medic 420, Engine 414, etc.)
300
This is the number of locations to obtain lung sounds in the secondary assessment.
What is six locations?
300
This is the purpose of using OPQRST.
What is to assess pain and other symptoms?
400
This is a description of a pulse that is hard to palpate because it is so weak.
What is "thready?"
400
We _________ the chest at the mid-clavicular and mid-axillary lines during the primary assessment.
What is auscultate?
400
This is usually that last bit of information the dispatcher will add to each radio communication before ending the transmission?
What is the time in military time?
400
This is the mnemonic denoting what the EMT checks at the hands of feet of his/her patient.
What is PMSC for pulse, movement, sensation and circulation?
400
This is what PEARL stands for.
What is pupils equal and reactive to light?
500
This is the description of a pulse that abnormally strong.
What is bounding?
500
This is the description of a belly with no abnormal findings.
What is soft and non-tender?
500
This is how often the fire and rescue unit informs dispatch of its location.
What is every time it changes location?
500
This is the medical term for bruising at the mastoid process.
What is Battles sign?
500
This is what DCAPP-BTLS stands for.
What is deformities, contusions, abrasions, punctures, penetrations, burns, tenderness, lacerations, swelling.
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