Designed to help EMR detect and correct all immediate threats to life
Primary Assessment
100
A visual overview of the scene to identify any obvious or potential hazards prior to entering.
Scene Size-UP
100
Daily DOuble
subjective indications of injury that can not be observed by another person but are felt and reported by the patient.
What are Symptoms?
200
Objective indications of illness or injury that can be seen, heard, felt, and smelled by another person.
What are Signs?
200
One who has a physical injury caused by an external force.
Trauma Patient
200
A standardized approach for performing a physical exam and obtaining a medical history on a patient.
Patient Assessment
200
can be felt on either side of the neck
Carotid Pulse
200
Using your hands to physically hold the body part and keep it from moving.
Manual Stabilization
300
The first formal impression of the patient’s overall condition.
General Impression
300
Daily Double
What does the Acronym AVPU stand for?
Alert, Verbal, Pain, Unresponsive
300
What are the ABC's?
Airway, Breathing, Circulation, and Bleeding
300
Combined forces that caused injury.
Mechanism of Injury
300
What is one way to check circulation?
capillary refill
400
True or False.
If patient is unresponsive and breathing, there will not be a pulse
False. There will be a pulse
400
What is medically wrong with patient
Nature of Illness
400
can be felt on the anterior aspect of the wrist on the same side as the thumb.
Radial Pulse
400
The first determination of vital signs; used to compare with all further readings of vital signs to identify trends.
What are Baseline Vital Signs?
400
An examination conducted on stable patients, focusing on a specific injury or medical complaint.
Focused Secondary Assessment
500
The pulse that can be felt in the medial side of the upper arm between the elbow and shoulder.
Brachial Pulse
500
The Four Types of Patients:
Responsive medical
______________ medical
Trauma patients with significant MOI
Trauma patients without significant _________.
Unresponsive
MOI (Mechanism of Injury)
500
If there is no pulse what should you do?
alert dispatch and begin CPR.
500
What would be included with checking a patient's vital signs?