NREMT Advanced-EMT Questions & Answers 100%correct!

NREMT Advanced-EMT Questions & Answers 100%correct! Initial Assessment: B-SMNAC - ANSWER - BSI (body substance isolation); - Scene Safety; - Mechanism of Injury (MOI)/Nature of Illness (NOI); - Number of Patients; - Assistance (additional units, Fire, Police, etc.); - C-spine (and/or C-collar) Initial Assessment: G-CAAT - ANSWER - General Impression; - Chief Complaints, Life Threats (hemorrhage); - AVPU; - ABC's (airway, breathing, circulation); - Transport Decision (Load and Go or Stay and Play) Components of General Impression - ANSWER ASSS-FLOP-VD: - Apparent state of health; - Skin color, obvious lesions; - Signs of distress; - Sexual development; - Facial expressions; - Level of consciousness; - Odors; - Posture, Motor, Gait; - Vital statistics; - Dress, Grooming, Hygiene Components of AVPU - ANSWER - Alert; - responds to Verbal stimuli; - responds to Painful stimuli; - Unresponsive Secondary Assessment: OPQRST-I - ANSWER especially for Respiratory and Cardiac patients: - Onset; - Provocation/Palliation; - Quality; - Radiation; - Scale/Severity; - Time; - Interventions What is OPQRST? - ANSWER a mnemonic for remembering the questions to ask when assessing the patient's chief complaint or major symptoms Onset - ANSWER - When and how did the symptom begin? - Ask the patient if the onset was sudden or gradual. - Also determine if the onset was associated with a particular activity. Provocation/palliation: - ANSWER - What makes the symptom worse? - What makes the symptom better? Quality - ANSWER How would you describe the pain? Radiation - ANSWER - Where do you feel the pain?; - Where does the pain go? Scale/Severity - ANSWER - On a scale from 0 to 10, with 10 being the worst.