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In this weeks’ Inside EMS Quick Clip, hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss whether EMS, and health care providers in general, have been too focused on electronic records when it comes to treating patients.
Rather than building a rapport and making patients too comfortable, are EMTs and paramedics spending too much time in front of their computers, or using equipment. Is patient assessment a lost art?
“It seems we’ve gotten more robotic with our patient assessment,” Cebollero said. “Rather than it being really personal, it’s become very, very technical.”
Grayson agreed, saying this concept also extends to hospitals and doctor’s offices, and said students are graduating from paramedic programs with an “analysis paralysis.”
“It’s much easier for them to look at a machine and ask a quick question here and there,” he said, “rather than sit down on the side of the bed and take a pulse, and hold a patient’s hand, and actually get a history from them.”
