Safety
Scene safety, assessing dangers, immediate life threats, identifying MOI, determining number of patients
What is scene size-up?
Scene size-up, primary assessment, secondary assessment, reassesment.
What is patient assessment?
ABC
What is airway, breathing, circulation?
What you would use to stabilize someone's neck
What is a cervical collar?
The rate that their condition can change.
What is very quickly?
Disposable gloves, eye protection, face mask.
What is PPE / safety precautions?
Unresponsive, severe bleeding, difficulty breathing, chest pain
What is a high-priority patient?
MOI
What is mechanism of injury?
Falls of more than 10 feet, bicycle collision, medium-speed MVA
What is MOI for child?
How circulation is checked
What is capillary refill?
Violence, weapons, vehicle collisions, toxic substances.
What are unsafe scenes?
What is general impression?
AVPU
What is alert, verbal, painful, and unresponsive?
Penetrations, falls of greater than 15 feet, high-speed MVA, rollover / ejection
What is MOI for adults?
The type of pulse in an infant / small child
What is brachial pulse?
My name is Bailey. I am an Emergency Medical Responder. I will be helping you today.
What is identifying yourself?
The concern with bleeding
What is total blood loss?
SAMPLE
What is signs/symptoms, allergies, medications, past medical history, last oral intake, events leading to illness or injury
What you would do to a trauma patient in rapid secondary assessment - to their head, face, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, back, and extremeties
What is palpate?
The rate of their breathing and pulse rates
What is fast?
Did the patient fall? Was there a MVA? Is there a penetrating wound? Is one or more people in the vehicle from the accident deceased?
What is MOI (mechanism of injury)?
Updating patient condition - age, gender, chief complaint, interventions and reports
What is alerting dispatch?
BP-DOC
What is bleeding, pain, deformities, open wounds, and crepitus?
Grating noise or sensation felt when bone ends rub together
What is crepitus?
How children act toward EMRs
What is shy, scared, distrustful