Emergency Response Questions and Answers
Rapid Physical Exam - ✅✅Head to toe fast exam; for pts with terrible trauma with multiple injuries
who need to be transported ASAP
Primary Assessment Steps - ✅✅Forming a general impression
Assessing mental status
Assessing airway
Assessing breathing
Assessing circulation
Determining patient priority
ABC - ✅✅airway, breathing, circulation
Secondary Assessment - ✅✅after immediate life- or limb-threatening injuries/illnesses have been
identified, this more thorough evaluation is performed to identify more subtle, yet still important,
injuries
Vital Signs - ✅✅temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure etc.
Wheezing - ✅✅High pitched sound heard in the lungs with asthmatics or lung disease
stridor - ✅✅strained, high-pitched sound heard on inspiration caused by obstruction in the pharynx
or larynx
Rhonchi - ✅✅Rattling noise of mucous in the lungs
crackles (rales) - ✅✅popping sounds heard in the lung when air enters diseased airways and alveoli;
occurs in disorders such as bronchiectasis or atelectasis
Rapid Physical Exam - ✅✅Head to toe fast exam; for pts with terrible trauma with multiple injuries
who need to be transported ASAP
Primary Assessment Steps - ✅✅Forming a general impression
Assessing mental status
Assessing airway
Assessing breathing
Assessing circulation
Determining patient priority
ABC - ✅✅airway, breathing, circulation
Secondary Assessment - ✅✅after immediate life- or limb-threatening injuries/illnesses have been
identified, this more thorough evaluation is performed to identify more subtle, yet still important,
injuries
Vital Signs - ✅✅temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure etc.
Wheezing - ✅✅High pitched sound heard in the lungs with asthmatics or lung disease
stridor - ✅✅strained, high-pitched sound heard on inspiration caused by obstruction in the pharynx
or larynx
Rhonchi - ✅✅Rattling noise of mucous in the lungs
crackles (rales) - ✅✅popping sounds heard in the lung when air enters diseased airways and alveoli;
occurs in disorders such as bronchiectasis or atelectasis
