Chapter 11 Flashcards
At 3:00 a.m. you receive a call for a “man down.” While to route to the scene, you ask the dispatcher to provide additional information, but the dispatcher advices you the caller was abrupt on the phone and then hung up. You should:
Ask the dispatcher of law enforcement is en route to the scene.
An empathetic attitude:
Will put you in your patients shoes
When assessing any patient, the paramedic should remember that:
Some patients with a traumatic injury could also have an underlying medical component.
When assessing the head and face during the full-body exam, you should:
Avoid palpating any cranial depressions
Objective patient information:
Is based on fact or observation
During a 20-minute transport of a critical patient, you should make a concerted effort to reassess the patient _ times.
Four
Sonorous respiration’s are MOST likely caused by:
An atomic airway obstruction.
On most runs , the two MOST important pieces of patient history information that you need to obtain initially are the:
Patients name and chief compliant
Your entire assessment of a patient should
Appear to be a seamless process.
Gathering a patient’s medical history and performing a secondary assessment should occur:
After life threats have been identified and corrected in the primary assessment.
The MOST reliable means of attempting to determine an unresponsive medical patient’s problem is:
A thorough head-to-toe physical examination.
An unresponsive patient who has been breathing slowly and shallowly for an extended period of time would MOST likely have _ skin.
Cyanotic
The general type of illness a patient is experiencing is called the:
nature of illness
The paramedic should address a patient:
As the patient wishes to be addressed.
Other than overall patient appearance, the patient’s _ is/are the MOST objective data for determining his or her statues.
Vital signs
