Primary Assessment
What are the 4 things your are assessing on a Primary Assessment?
Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Levels of consciousness and deadly bleads
After all life-threatening conditions have been ruled out.
When should responders conduct ongoing assessments?
After conduction the primary and secondary trauma assessments.
What should a methodical and thorough trauma assessment begin with?
What is AVPU Scale?
A rating scale to check whether a patient is alert, responds to voice, responds to pain, or is unresponsive.
What is the purpose of a Primary Survey?
to determine if a patients airway, breathing or circulation may be compromised.
what is a helpful acronym used in the hands-on assessment tool to determine a patient's injuries during a head-to-toe exam?
DCAP-BLS-TIC
What should you continue to check to determine whether treatment is working?
Vital Signs
What is the key to identifying injuries and successfully treating patients?
A systematic approach to assessment
A posture that can include rigidity, arms and legs held straight out, toes pointed downward, and head and neck arched backwards is called?
Decerebrate Posture
On whom should you perform a primary trauma assessment?
All trauma patients.
in regard to patients chest, what should responders assess during a trauma assessment?
The rate and depth of breathing,
Listen for lung sounds and check for unilateral chest movement.
at periodic intervals
In non-tactical situations, whose safety should be ensured first?
Responders
What should responders use to assess a patient's level of consciousness?
the Glasgow Coma Scale
form a general impression of the patient from a distance.
When focusing on an extremity, what should you assess?
Pulse, Motor and sensation.
What type of assessment is repeated during an ongoing assesssment?
Primary
What should be considered during an assessment of the patient?
Raccoon's Eyes are?
Ecchymosis (discoloration of the skin resulting from bleeding underneath, typically caused by bruising) around the eyes; an indication of a basilar (break in the bone at the base of the skull) skull fracture
During a primary trauma assessment, what should responders do if a patient has airway, breathing , or circulation (ABC) issues?
Correct ABC issues immediately
What area are you checking when you do the following?
Palpate note any guarding, bruising, tenderness or rigidity.
Abdomen
Tunnel Vision
What does DCAP-BLS-TIC Stand for?
Deformities, Contusions, Abrasions, Penetrations, Burns, Lacerations, Swelling, Tenderness, Instability and crepitus.
A posture that can include rigidity, clenched fists, legs held straight out, and arms bent inward toward the body with wrists and fingers bent and held against the chest is called what?