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EMS chapter 10
1. Form a general impression of your patient and the environment
2. Conduct a first look test
3. Determine level of consciousness (AVPU, GCS)
4. Assess airway - if alert, open airway; if V, P, or U, open airway with jaw thrust, consider oral/nasal
airway and suctioning
5. Assess breathing - determine rate, rhythm, quality for 30 seconds
6. Assess breath sounds - Mid axillary unless abnormal, then all six positions
7. Administer oxygen 15 L by nonrebreather
8. Assess pulse - determine rate, rhthym, quality for 30 seconds; if responsive palpate radial artery, if
unresponsive palpate carotid artery
9. Assess skin color, temperature, and moisture
10. Assess capillary refill
11. Assess and control life threatening external bleeding
12. Perform a rapid scan (60-90 seconds)
13. Determine priority care and transport - ✔✔Steps of primary assessment
1. Scene Safety
2. Mechanism of Injury/Nature of Illness
%
3. Number of Victims
4. Need for Additional Rescuers or Special Equipment - ✔✔Steps of scene size-up
1. Scene size-up
2. Primary assessment
3. History taking
4. Secondary assessment
5. Reassessment - ✔✔5 steps of patient assessment
a condition in which the level of oxygen in the blood becomes dangerously low or the level of carbon
dioxide becomes dangerously high - ✔✔respiratory failure
Alert, Verbal, Pain, Unresponsive - ✔✔AVPU
Eye opening: 1) none, 2) to pain, 3) to verbal command, 4) spontaneous
Verbal response: 1) none, 2) incomprehensible sounds, 3) inappropriate words, 4)
disoriented/confused, 5) oriented
Motor response: 1) none, 2) decerebrate, 3) decorticate, 4) withdraws to pain, 5) localizes pain, 6)
obeys commands - ✔✔Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
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EMS chapter 10
1. Form a general impression of your patient and the environment
2. Conduct a first look test
3. Determine level of consciousness (AVPU, GCS)
4. Assess airway - if alert, open airway; if V, P, or U, open airway with jaw thrust, consider oral/nasal
airway and suctioning
5. Assess breathing - determine rate, rhythm, quality for 30 seconds
6. Assess breath sounds - Mid axillary unless abnormal, then all six positions
7. Administer oxygen 15 L by nonrebreather
8. Assess pulse - determine rate, rhthym, quality for 30 seconds; if responsive palpate radial artery, if
unresponsive palpate carotid artery
9. Assess skin color, temperature, and moisture
10. Assess capillary refill
11. Assess and control life threatening external bleeding
12. Perform a rapid scan (60-90 seconds)
13. Determine priority care and transport - ✔✔Steps of primary assessment
1. Scene Safety
2. Mechanism of Injury/Nature of Illness
%
3. Number of Victims
4. Need for Additional Rescuers or Special Equipment - ✔✔Steps of scene size-up
1. Scene size-up
2. Primary assessment
3. History taking
4. Secondary assessment
5. Reassessment - ✔✔5 steps of patient assessment
a condition in which the level of oxygen in the blood becomes dangerously low or the level of carbon
dioxide becomes dangerously high - ✔✔respiratory failure
Alert, Verbal, Pain, Unresponsive - ✔✔AVPU
Eye opening: 1) none, 2) to pain, 3) to verbal command, 4) spontaneous
Verbal response: 1) none, 2) incomprehensible sounds, 3) inappropriate words, 4)
disoriented/confused, 5) oriented
Motor response: 1) none, 2) decerebrate, 3) decorticate, 4) withdraws to pain, 5) localizes pain, 6)
obeys commands - ✔✔Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
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