NREMT P-Medic: Trauma Exam Questions With Complete Solutions

NREMT P-Medic: Trauma Exam Questions With Complete Solutions You are transporting a 43-year-old male who experienced partial- and full-thickness burns to his head, face, anterior torso, and both upper extremities. When calling your radio report to the hospital, it is MOST important that you: Relay the anatomic locations of his burns. When calling your radio report on a patient with burns, simply stating the percentage of body surface area (BSA) burned tells the receiving facility very little; it only gives them a number. That's no different than stating that your patient has a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 10, but not stating the areas of the GCS in which the deficits were found. This patient does have burns that cover 45% of his BSA; however, it is far more important to relay the anatomic location of his burns—particularly his face—than to simply state the percentage of his BSA that is burned. Information such as past medical history, current medications, and prehospital treatment should be included in your radio report; however, you must first make the hospital acutely aware of the criticality of the patient's burns; tell them where, not just what!