To determine this ask the patient basic questions: Who are you? Do you know where you are? Can you tell me what happened? And also the “with it” questions, which are used to determine how the patients reasoning is affected. This category is subdivided by orientation. These patients can still have severe injuries that are life threatening but due to shock or adrenaline have yet to go unconscious or have a decrease in LOC. A: Alert patients are patients that are awake and able to communicate with you.This can usually help determine severity of patients overall. If the ABCs don’t show an immediate life threat then the LOC can help with solving the medical mystery or give clues to the severity of injury. The second thing that should be determined is the patients level of consciousness or LOC. Do they look pale? What’s their temperature? What circulation means is the patient’s blood going throughout their body adequately. If they are unconscious, it’s simple to just RP check the patient’s airway.īreathing: When assessing someone's breathing you can also easily do this by talking to them and usually by the way they are talking you can adequately tell if they are breathing ok or not.Ĭirculation: Circulation is essentially the presentation of the patient. Everyone has heard of the ABCs in EMS and assessing a patient's ABCs you don’t even have to touch them.Īirway: When you walk up to a patient and start talking to them, if they are conscious and see what is going on and what the problem is, and if they talk back to you or are having a hard time talking in general you know there is an airway problem. The assessment is something that can be done as you are walking up on a scene by taking in the initial patient presentation.
Bls skills check off cheat sheet professional#
You have to remember that not everyone is a medical professional so go off of what you are given in regards to signs, symptoms, and vitals. This is a quick reference guide over skills, procedures, medications, and assessment that an EMT is capable of doing.
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