Chapter 11- Patient Assessment

A determination of what you think is the patient's current problem.

• General Impression

• Differential Diagnosis

• Field Impression

• Chief Complaint

On a potential crime scene, who enters the scene first?

• Law Enforecemnet

• Firefighters

• First Responders

• Your EMT Partner

The step of patient assessment where you determine if the patient is sick or not sick.

• Primary Assessment

• General Impression

• Field Impression

A pulse less than _________ is considered bradycardia.

• 90

• 80

• 70

• 60

This should ALWAYS be recorded in the patient's OWN words.

• Signs

• General Impression

• Differential Diagnosis

• Chief Complaint

A working hypothesis of the nature of the problem.

• Field Impression

• General Impression

• Differential Diagnosis

• Chief Complaint

Pain upon release. Indicative of what if in the lower right quadrant.

• Referred pain. Cholecystitis.

• Rebound pain. Cholecystitis.

• Referred pain. Appendicitis.

• Rebound pain. Appendicitis.

The status of the patient's airway should be check in the:

• scene size up

• primary assessment

• secondary assessment

• baseline vital signs

Which of the following is an example of a mechanism of injury?

• Exposure to fire

• A broken leg

• Chest pain

• Unresponsiveness

Which of the following decisions is based on assessment of the mechanism of injury?

• Whether to transport the patient to the hospital

• What specific organs were injured

• What type of airway adjunct to insert

• Whether to use spinal motion restriction