Patient Assessment
If a patient is experiencing an NOI, should you do a physical exam or ask SAMPLE questions first?
What is use SAMPLE to obtain a medical history.
The sound you would expect to hear when listening to lungs of a patient with an anaphylactic reaction.
What is wheezing.
Bonus: Do you need to call 911? Evacuate?
When is it appropriate to use a jaw thrust maneuver?
What is taking spinal precautions.
What is the normal range for the heart rate of an adult?
What is 60 to 100 beats per minute.
Most commonly broken bone in the human body.
What is the clavicle.
Bonus: how do you stabilize it?
Explain why we do a primary assessment.
What is to check for any life threats.
What is AVPU?
What is a tool for assessing a patient's level of responsiveness.
A-Alert, V-Verbal, P-Pain, U-Unresponsive.
How many seconds should you suction someone's airway at a time?
What is no more than ten seconds.
Normal range for blood glucose.
What is 80 to 120.
A spine safe move for moving a patient onto a backboard or vacuum mattress.
What is a log roll.
What are you checking for when you palpate a patient's spine?
What is point tenderness and any deformities.
Abdominal evacuation criteria.
What is abdominal pain lasting longer than 12 hours, signs and symptoms of pregnancy, blood in feces or urine, a fever above 102, inability to hold food or water down, localized tenderness, guarding or distension of the abdomen.
What is the number one cause of a closed airway?
What is the tongue.
Bonus: what position can you put a patient in to help?
Examples of medical alert tags.
What are bracelets, necklaces, tattoos, medical patches.
Bonus: examples of some conditions that might be on a medical alert tag?
Shock is always secondary to what?
What is a primary illness or an injury.
Bleeding from soft tissue injuries should initially be treated with what?
What is well aimed direct pressure.
What is a hypo wrap.
Bonus: What are the layers and how do you make one?
How can you tell if someone is breathing?
What is look, listen and feel.
Place to find a pulse on a responsive patient.
What is the radial pulse.
Bonus: list some other locations for finding a pulse.
When do you use the BE- FAST test?
What is when you are assessing for a stroke.
How do you perform it on a patient?
How often should you take vitals on an unstable patient?
What is every five minutes.
A patient lying on cold ground is losing heat through what mechanism?
What is conduction.
The cause of most strokes.
What is blockage of an artery supplying blood to part of the brain.
What is tachycardia and bradycardia?
What is a fast and a slow heart rate.
An injury in which the epidermis stays intact but blood vessels and cells in the dermis are injured causing bruising.
What is a contusion.