EMTposter - Patient Assessment Flow Chart PDF

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Summary

During your call you will communicate, at important points, with dispatch and with medical direction as well as with the staff of the medical facility to which you transport the patient. You must also communicate clearly with other EMS personnel, the patient, and others at the scene. A failure of cl...

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Emergency Medica Decision Tree F UNSAFE!

1 - SCENE SI 1) Take the necessary Body Substance I 2) Assure Scene Safety for rescuer, patie 3) Determine Mechanism of Injury or Nat 4) Establish Number of Patients 5) Need for Additional Resources

Control Scene Move Patients Correct Hazzard

MOI

TRAUMA Patient Suspect Spinal Injury?

YES Establish In-line Stabilization

NO

2INITIAL PATIEN ASSESSM Form General Impression: Mechan Look, Feel Skins, Listen Breath DECIDE: TRAUMA, MEDICA, (A,B,Cs, Bleed and Sho

Assess Mental Status (AVPU)

Assess Airway O P E N Assess Breathing A D E

CLOSED Perform Jawthrust Manuver

INADEQUATE Begin Positive Pressure Ventilation with

DECAP BTLS: Deformity Evisceration Contusion Abrasion Penetration Burns Tenderness Lacerations Swelling PMS: Pulse/Capalary Refil Motor Function

Signs Allerg Past H Intak

Onse Qu Radia o (In...