THE AIRPORT MEDICAL CALL PATIENT EVALUATION PART ONE – INITIAL ASSESSMENT

摘要

In this installment of the AirportnMedical Call, I would like tonreview the basics of patientnevaluation beginning with theninitial assessment. As EMS providers,nwe are called to a host ofnsituations. It is up to us to assessneach situation, each patient, thoroughly.nThe purpose of patientnassessment is to establish treatmentnpriorities and devise a treatmentnplan. Patient assessmentnoften requires some detectivenwork on the part of the EMS responder