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1. Patients in emergency nursing Life-threatening
Potentially life-threatening
Urgent problems enter hospital through emergency
depart-ment (ED)

2. Annual visits to ED Over 136 million people visit EDs annually.
- how many visit ED
annually This number is increasing bc
- # increasing why (6) (1) the inability to see a primary care provider
(2) an aging population
(3) shorter hospital stays resulting in frequent
readmis-sions
(4) acute mental health crises
(5) ED closures
(6) lack of or inadequate health insurance or a
primary care provider

3. Triage "To sort"
- means
- process of Process of rapidly determining patient
- represents
acuity Represents a critical
- does what to patients
assessment skill

4. After initial focused Categorizes patients so most critical are treated first
assessment to determine
actual or potential threats ...proceed with more detailed assessment
to life...
- what kind of approach systematic approach to this assessment decreases
- what is used for all trauma the time needed to identify potential threats to life
pa-tients and limits the risk of overlooking a life-threatening
condition.
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A primary and secondary survey is the approach used for all
- what is used for nontrauma pa-
trauma patients.
tient




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For nontrauma patients, the primary survey is followed
by a focused assessment

5. Primary Survey: ABCDEFGH Alertness and airway
Breathing
Circulation (becomes #1 if there is uncontrolled
hemor-rage)
Disability
Exposure and environmental control
Facilitate adjuncts and family
Get resuscitation adjuncts
History and head-to-toe assessment

6. If uncontrolled external usual ABC assessment format may be reprioritized to
hemor-rhage is noted
<C>ABC for hemorrhage control.

The <C> stands for catastrophic hemorrhage and, if
present, needs to be controlled first.

Apply direct pressure with a sterile dressing followed by
a pressure dressing to any obvious bleeding sites.
7. Primary survey
- aim primary survey aims to identify life-threatening
- If life-threatening conditions so that appropriate interventions can
conditions related to be started.
ABCs are identified
interventions are started immediately and before
during primary survey
proceed-ing to the next step of survey
8. Primary Survey: Alertness
and airway (1) alertness level of the patient can be an important factor
- what is alertness level for selecting appropriate airway interventions.
impor-
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Determine LOC by assessing the patient's
response to verbal




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