WorksheetsPatient Assessment 1
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
If you encounter 2 patients without an obvious cause, what should you do?
Leave them be
Treat without checking for additional dangers
Call 999 and do not approach
Approach with caution
You approach a patient on the ground, but they don't respond to you until you squeeze their shoulders - what is their response level
Alert
Voice
Pain
Unresponsive
You encounter a patient who won't respond to any of your stimuli, what is the first thing you should do?
Recovery position
Start CPR
Call 999
Panic
You have opened the patient's airway, but they haven't taken a breath in the 10 seconds you have been watching. What should you do?
Abdominal Thrusts (Heimlich Manoeuvre)
Start CPR
Put them in the recovery position
Give rescue breaths only
In the secondary survey, what are you looking for?
Deformities
Bleeding
Medic Alerts
Medications
What is crepitus
A savoury or sweet French pancake snack
Swelling around wounds
Crunchy bone noises
Visible deformities
Where might you find a medic alert?
How do you assess if a patient has a fractured hip?
Palpate gently for tenderness and deformity
Rock the hip side to side
Push down hard on both sides of the hips
Pull the patients legs
What is a flail chest?
When patients have their arms flailed across their chest
Simple rib fracture
The scar left by an internal defibrillator
An area of ribs with multiple fractures leading to paradoxical breathing
When putting someone in the recovery position, where should you put patient belongings?
In their hand, closest to you
Give them to a stranger to hold on to
Leave them in their pockets
In your pocket (finders keepers...right?)
Have you got your EUFAS membership yet?
Yes
First thing I did when I came to uni!
I'm a proud member of EUFAS!
Of course, who isn't!!
