Detective Work
This mnemonic helps you learn about the chief complaint and history of present illess
What is OPQRST?
BSI stands for this
What is body substance isolation?
The order in which you assess a patient's life treats
What is A-B-C?
A secondary assessment in a unresponsive medical patient is performed in this order
What is physical, vital signs, history?
This is a reassessment question you can ask to a patient with chest pain you administered nitroglycerin to
What is "How is your pain feeling?" or "has the medication helped your pain?"
A 45 yom is complaining of abdominal pain. You would inquire about the quality of his pain by asking this
What is can you describe what the pain feels like?
Injury caused by a blow that strikes body but does not penetrate skin or other body tissues
What is blunt force trauma?
Patient is having significant trouble breathing. They are this priority
What is urgent/ unstable?
Your patient is a 6 year old female who slammed her finger in a car door. She should have this type of physical examination.
What is a focused exam?
Your patient has a blood pressure of 82/50 and they are altered. You should reassess vitals every _____
What is 5 minutes?
SAMPLE stands for this:
What is signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, past history, last oral intake and events leading to injury or illness?
Head on collisions often have these injury patterns
What is up and over/ down and under?
The order of the primary assessment
What is general impression, AVPU, airway, breathing, circulation?
When assessing an abdomen you assess for this
What is firmness, softness, and tenderness?
While reassessing your patient, you notice they are unresponsive and not breathing. What should you do first?
What is check for a pulse?
These techniques help you physically examine your patient
What is observation, auscultation, and palpation?
You are on scene of a 15 yom in cardiac arrest. Family members start to become violent, verbally aggressive, and threatening to your crew. You should:
What is attempt to calm family, leave the scene and call for PD?
You enter a room and find a patient laying on a couch. Their eyes are closed and do not notice you walk in the room. When you start to speak, she opens her eyes and looks at you. This patient is responsive to this
What is verbal?
When performing an assessment of the chest, you should assess these 3 things
What is paradoxical motion, crepitation, and breath sounds?
When reassessing a patient, you reassess these 4 things.
What is ABC's/ life threats, vitals, interventions/ treatments, and physical exam?
When you encounter a patient with a group of signs and symptoms that resemble a particular condition, you assume the patient has this condition
What is representativeness?
A critical fall for a child under 15 years
What is more than ten feet (two to three times child’s height)
A patient is unresponsive to all stimuli, is not breathing, emesis in airway, and is heavily bleeding from a severed leg. You address the ABC's in this order
What is circulation, airway, breathing?
DCAP-BTLS stands for
What is deformities, contusion, abrasion, punctures/ penetrations, burns, tenderness, lacerations, swelling?
Your patient was experiencing a CHF exacerbation and was placed on CPAP. As you back into the hospital, the patient vomits and becomes unresponsive. You should:
What is remove the CPAP, suction the airway and begin BVM ventilations?