Patient Assessment
Patient assessment is the process an EMT or paramedic follows to evaluate an injured or ill patient. The process includes a scene size-up, which is the identification and mitigation of risks, a primary assessment to find and fix life threats and a secondary assessment to perform a focused history and physical exam of the patient. Each step is an opportunity to collect information that will guide treatment and inform a transport decision. In the EMS1 Patient Assessment topic find the latest news about patient assessment and top resources to improve your patient assessment skills.
What do femoral pulse, radial pulse and carotid pulse actually indicate?
“Our commitment to take care of others is not a political undertaking; it represents the greatest of social contracts in helping our fellow humans in their time of need.”
Avoid false blood pressure readings that could impact patient care. Discover the most frequent BP measurement mistakes and expert-backed techniques for accuracy.
When it comes to respiratory distress calls in the field, EMS providers need to be aware they play a large part of the patient’s continuing care story
It’s important to brush up on protocols, equipment and other areas of EMS after taking some time away from the field
Without a standard, objective-based assessment of patient sobriety levels, situations may arise that test the limits of EMS personnel
The state is now considering a bill to give paramedics the same authority that police have to direct patients to the facility best suited to treat them
Julie Lahr, who has been in EMS for 16 years, said she started thinking outside the box after realizing the impact community paramedics and mental health specialists could make in the field
Top takeaways for prehospital care of diabetic patients after filtering 2.5 million EMS encounters in the EMS Index
You don’t have to work in EMS to make an EMS education worthwhile
North Richland Hills Fire Department and Medical City North Hills created the Code Sepsis program to assess and treat sepsis with antibiotics en route to the hospital
The legislation directs EMS agencies to establish protocol for prehospital assessment and treatment of stroke patients
Through the EPIC treatment, EMS providers are taught to focus on the three H-bombs to prevent further damage to head injuries
Moving beyond the ‘standard’ 12-lead ECG
There’s more to a diagnostic ECG than just 12-leads, and there’s more to a 12-lead than just ST-Elevation
Quiz yourself on case studies presented at the Gathering of the Eagles that demonstrate some of the unique effects drugs can have on the heart
A national database examining five metrics in evidence-based care gives EMS a framework to improve tactics, efficiency, outcomes and resource allocation
SALT Triage System is the foundation of the new MUCC Instructional Guidelines for training paramedics and EMTs in mass casualty triage
By using video technology to do remote consultations, patients don’t have to wait get a psychiatric assessment
The “Take Me Home” program includes an online registry and stickers with the logo that will help first responders assess the situation
HCMC in Minneapolis and Regions Hospital in St. Paul have emerged as pioneers in frostbite treatment and earned national recognition for their work
Improve your patient assessment of traumatic injuries in geriatric medicine
You are dispatched to a baseball diamond in a park, where a girl is complaining of dizziness
Our co-hosts discuss the observable and physiologic signs to look for and the best way to document your intervention in your chart
The NCH Healthcare System launched a “virtual visit” program, enabling patients to have a telemedicine visit any time of day or night for non-emergency issues
How well do you know the conditions associated with pH imbalances?
You are dispatched to a report of a male patient involved in a bicycle accident
A paradigm shift for EMS in the era of large vessel occlusion stroke draws on success of prehospital STEMI assessment and care
Fire officials said a boiler in the basement was leaking; the leak filled the dorm’s five floors with high levels of CO2
Treat aggressively with high-flow oxygen, rapid sequence intubation and Cyanokit in a patient with evidence of airway burns and CO2 poisoning
The American Heart Association announced the first change to the standards in 14 years, tightening the guidelines to include millions more American adults
In Chicago, more than 3,000 people have been shot this year, and the victim of a gunshot wound can bleed to death in only five minutes
Deputy Chief Dan Donahue says measurements showed carbon monoxide levels of 500 parts per million in the house
