Patient Assessment

Front 1

Injury caused by a blow that does not penetrate the skin or other body tissures

Back 1

blunt-force trauma

Front 2

The area around the wreckage of a vehicle collision on other incident within which special safety precautions should be taken

Back 2

danger zone

Front 3

Awareness that there may be injuries

Back 3

index of suspicion

Front 4

A force or forces that may have caused injury

Back 4

mechanism of injury

Front 5

What is medically wrong with a patient?

Back 5

nature of illness

Front 6

Injury caused by an object that passes through the skin or other body tissues

Back 6

penetrating trauma

Front 7

Steps taken by an ambulance crew when approaching the scene of an emergency call

Back 7

scene size-up

Front 8

Airway, breathing, and circulation

Back 8

ABC's

Front 9

A memory aid for classifying a patient's level of responsiveness, or mental status. The letters stand for alert, verbal response. painful responsive, unresponsive

Back 9

AVPU

Front 10

In emergency medicine the reason WMS was called usually in the patient;s own words

Back 10

chief conplaint

Front 11

Impression of the patinet's condition that is formed on first aproaching the patient,

Back 11

general impression

Front 12

The first element in assessment of a patientl steps taken for the purpose of discovering and dealing with any life-threatening problems.

Back 12

initial assessment

Front 13

What are the 6 parts of the initial assessment:

Back 13

1. forming gneral mpewsaion