Usual Suspects
(Common Emergencies)
(Common Emergencies)
These calls include conditions like asthma and COPD.
Respiratory Emergencies
Even your nightmares start with part of an assessment.
"BSI, scene safety" AKA Scene Survey
This virus gripped the US with fear in the 80's.
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)
In the right conditions, these grow outside the human body.
Bacteria
Your awareness and concern for potentially serious underlying and unseen injuries or illness.
Index of suspicion
Treatment for these types of calls used to include activated charcoal.
Toxicologic Emergencies
It's the alphabet soup of your assessment.
History Taking (SAMPLE & OPQRST)
This used to be the primary reason healthcare workers would use a N95 mask.
Tuberculosis
These are the life of the party.
Fungi
A subjective finding.
Symptoms
Anaphylaxis for example..
Immunologic Emergencies
This should be an ongoing process.
Reassessment
Also referred to as "whooping cough".
Pertussis
Single-celled microscopic organisms.
Protozoa (parasitic Amoebas)
Occurs when new cases of a disease in a human population substantially exceed the number of expected based on recent experience.
Epidemic
AMS can make these calls a little tricky to diagnose.
Neurologic Emergencies
This should give you deja vu.
Secondary Assessment
The root cause of the most recent pandemic.
SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
Only viable within a host and will die if exposed to the environment.
Viruses
The strength or ability of a pathogen to produce disease.
Virulence
These types of calls can range from a UTI to kidney stones, and everything in between.
Urologic Emergencies
This is the EMS version of the worst blind date you've ever had.
General Impression and Primary Assessment
The most common nosocomial infection.
MERSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)
Often the unwanted and unintentional souvenir that can be brought back from vacation.
Helminths (parasitic worms)
A hospital acquired infection.
Nosocomial Infection