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.
Don’t ignore one of the best things we can do for a patient
Steve Whitehead shares some important evaluation signs
The city’s EMS system has saved one life saved for every 3 days of the program, showing promising results
Learn how you can accurately assess patients who are deaf or hard of hearing under extra challenging conditions
Create and complete realistic patient assessment scenarios to challenge EMS students, new EMTs and new paramedics
Dig deep during the assessment to either rule out or rule in specific traumatic injury or illness
My partner asked the question we’ve all had at some point: “So, if you’ve had this for a week, what made it an emergency at 3 a.m.? Bless his sparky little rookie heart
Specific assessment findings and details are important for the immediate and ongoing treatment of a patient with thermal burns
