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.
A pioneering EMS program is helping patients with opioid use disorder find a path to recovery
OMI President Felix Marquez shares how VR training is helping rural Florida EMS agencies maintain critical pediatric emergency skills
Think you or someone you know might have measles? Here’s what you need to know
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
EMS providers need to be involved in educating communities in how to provide the initial response to critically injured patients
The program aims to teach bystanders how to keep victims with life-threatening injuries alive until EMS arrives
The victims were inside the church when a gas line malfunctioned and they began passing out and feeling sick
Passersby held paper towels to a gash in the woman’s leg while she waited for an ambulance, instead of being cared for by urgent care staff
Medical Director Jeremy Cushman encourages BLS providers to develop medical preplans for technical rescue scenarios they may encounter
World Trauma Symposium speaker describes pelvic fracture anatomy, pathophysiology and evidence for reducing bleeding and improving patient survival with a pelvic splint
The Stroke Scales for EMS app is designed with scales to measure physical indicators that can determine if the patient is having a large vessel occlusion
I soon discovered that although learning about 12-leads wasn’t hard, doing them prehospitally could be
You are dispatched to a report of a male patient with chest pain
SpO2, formerly a nice-to-have metric, has become the sixth vital sign
PupilScreen detects changes in a pupil’s response to light using the phone’s camera and a type of artificial intelligence
Hospitals with enhanced capabilities to treat trauma, cardiac care, pediatrics, burns and more are providing specialized care and changing transport algorithms
You are dispatched to a report of a male patient struck by a pickup truck in a crosswalk
Firefighters responded to the scene and found people on the lawn outside the house
The firefighters were somehow overcome by carbon monoxide, sending one into cardiac arrest
Our co-hosts give some tips on how to keep your skills sharp
Our co-hosts break down when to give a head-to-toe exam and a focused physical exam
Here are the EKG Club’s recommended steps for interpreting cardiac rhythms and 12-lead EKGs
You are on scene with a patient who is complaining of isolated abdominal pain; what tips can improve your physical exam of this patient?
You are dispatched to a report of a female patient at the gym complaining of abdominal pain
