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.
Avoid false blood pressure readings that could impact patient care. Discover the most frequent BP measurement mistakes and expert-backed techniques for accuracy.
A joint NAEMSP, NASEMSO, NEMSMA, NAEMT, APA position statement prioritizes patient and provider safety
The need for data-driven decisions in managing aggressive patients while ensuring safety and compliance
Understanding your unconscious biases will make hiring decisions, disciplinary choices, relationships and clinical care more equitable
Students covered in fake blood or wearing fake arms with burns and injuries on them wandered around the college campus
The journey to Mission: Lifeline recognition for Paramedics Plus improved the STEMI system of care through better data capture, communication and trust
Show off your trauma knowledge with this quiz about trauma patient assessment and treatment
A special report published in Prehospital and Disaster Medicine explains why all mass gatherings are not created equal
Interactive training materials are designed to empower bystanders to initiate simple lifesaving actions before EMS arrives
Individuals enrolled in the MIH program receive home visits from paramedics over a four-week period
Researchers analyzed charts for 2,100 patients who were 55 or older with head trauma who were transported to the hospital by EMS
EMS educators can improve sepsis patient outcomes by ensuring EMTs and paramedics have knowledge appropriate and impactful training
The study is the first independent evaluation of California’s 13 paramedicine pilot projects
You are dispatched to a factory for a report of a man with his arm caught in a hydraulic press
Lt. Ron Bryant was dispatched to a call for an unresponsive female when he smelled something off
A mobile stroke unit offers specially trained personnel and equipment which can provide remote diagnosis and evidence-based management to patients for definitive treatment
Rehab patients are friends and co-workers, which requires additional awareness for rehab medical personnel and preplanning to administer over-the-counter medications
Impairment of language from stroke or other types of brain injury makes it difficult for patients to communicate
Test your ability to apply the SALT triage method to a collection of simulated MCI patients
A woman’s first contact with a paramedic or EMT resulted in a care difference of four minutes compared to their male counterparts
Technological progress will continue to transform how we connect with our community, one patient at a time
Use this information and the SEPSIS mnemonic to improve EMS recognition, assessment and treatment of pediatric sepsis
Peter Antevy, winner of the Anderson Award, answers the five questions he is asked most often at the 2017 Gathering of Eagles
Handheld, portable blood analyzers used by community paramedics to assess heart failure patients and make prehospital care decisions
As first on scene from the outside, firefighters and medics have an important role in stopping nursing home abuse
EMS providers can “Identify-Report-Refer” to help improve a patient’s health through strengthening the patient’s social connections
Providing care on the snow covered prairie reconnected me with my paramedic roots and reminds me there are many ways for paramedics to be caregivers
Types of crush syndrome, including traumatic asphyxiation and suspension trauma, described by Bryan Bledsoe in EMS Today presentation
You are on scene with a patient who was choking on food; is your primary assessment as efficient as possible?
You are dispatched to a restaurant for a report of a man choking
Officials believe the high levels were caused by a snow-melting machine outside of the building
Test your knowledge of neonatal resuscitation and pediatric patient care with this quiz
EMS, fire and hospital personnel describe interstate collision, patient entrapment and field amputation to save a man pinned inside his truck cab by 80,000 pounds of logs
