Published in AEMT, EMT. Tags: neurology.
Stroke Symptoms Are Based On The Location Of The Clot At this point, medics should know that there are two main pathologies of stroke: Thrombotic Stroke – A blood clot is interrupting blood flow to downstream areas of the brain resulting in neurological symptoms. Hemorrhagic Stroke – A blood vessel in the brain has ruptured […]
Published in AEMT, EMT. Tags: patient assessment, secondary assessment.
Published in AEMT, EMT. Tags: endocrine, patient assessment, secondary assessment.
Patient With Diabetes Have Lots Of Problems, Start With the Blood Sugar A glucose meter, also referred to as a “glucometer”, is a medical device for determining the approximate concentration of glucose in the blood. It can also be a strip of glucose paper dipped into a substance and measured to the glucose chart. It […]
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The Context Of The Secondary Survey After the medics have assessed the patient for burns bleeding and broken bones, they package the patient. While enroute to the hospital, the medics job is not over. There is another assessment to perform while they are underway: The In Ambulance Secondary Survey The In Ambulance Secondary Survey follows […]
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Level of Consciousness Medical illness, traumatic brain injury, alcohol intoxication, drugs, and poisonings may all lead to aberrations in a patient’s neurological and physiological status in ways that cause an abnormal level of consciousness. AVPU is a straightforward scale that is useful to rapidly grade a patient’s gross level of consciousness, responsiveness, or mental status. It comes into […]
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Taking A Closer Look At Vital Signs When the patient is complaining of chest pain or their complaint causes the medics to consider a cardiovascular cause of the patient’s complaint, the focused physical exam must address the possibility of cardiac dysrhythmias. A cardiac dysrhythmia is an irregularity in the patient’s heart rhythm. A very common […]
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Easily Assess The Patient’s Respiratory Complaint And Figure Out The Underlying Condition Let’s be honest, is it really that difficult to just go to somebody’s house and with very little effort determine they are having shortness of breath? And if all the medics did was give some oxygen and transport to the hospital, that would […]
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The focused history and physical exam answers the question, “why am I here?” When the EMS crew is confronted with a patient who has a medical problem but there is no mechanism of injury, the medics have to figure out the complaint and formulate a differential diagnosis. A differential diagnosis is a temporary or working […]
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Best Piece Of Equipment Ever Put On An Ambulance Since both, hypotension and hypertension, can potentially impair the function of vital organs such as heart, brain, or kidneys, monitoring of arterial blood pressure (BP) is a mainstay of hemodynamic monitoring in acutely or critically ill patients. Arterial BP can either be obtained invasively via an […]
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It’s Like A Pulse Oximeter, But It Measures Carbon Monoxide A CO-oximeter is a device that measures the oxygen carrying state of hemoglobin in a blood specimen, including oxygen-carrying hemoglobin (O2Hb), non-oxygen-carrying but normal hemoglobin (HHb) (formerly, but incorrectly, referred to as ‘reduced’ hemoglobin), as well as the dyshemoglobins such as carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) and methemoglobin […]