1 / 18

Assessment Skills

Assessment Skills. Basic ADLS Principles for Completing the Red Survey. As Emergency Medical Providers, we conduct our actions in the way that we have been trained. Scene Survey Patient Assessment Essential Skills. It’s called “Business as Usual”. Business as Usual. Red Survey.

sibley
Download Presentation

Assessment Skills

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Assessment Skills Basic ADLS Principles for Completing the Red Survey

  2. As Emergency Medical Providers, we conduct our actions in the way that we have been trained • Scene Survey • Patient Assessment • Essential Skills

  3. It’s called “Business as Usual”

  4. Business as Usual Red Survey Exceeds # of Rescuers Yes No Number of Victims Incident Command? Scene Safe? No Yes Primary Survey Park and Wait Park and Wait More Rescuers than Patients

  5. When you have one victim, or enough rescuers to take care of your victims, then use usual patient assessment skills

  6. Primary Survey Secondary Survey Third Survey

  7. Primary Survey The first look for threats to life

  8. Primary Survey LOC / Airway / Cspine Respiratory Rate and Labor Circulation: Pulses (RQ/NW) Skin CMT/CRT Neck: Appearance / JVD /Trachea Chest: CLAPPD / BS / HT Quick Survey of Abd, Pelvis LE, UE, and Back

  9. 1 2 3 4 5

  10. Secondary Survey A Meticulous Head to Toe Assessment when Time Permits and when Further Diagnosis is required

  11. Third Survey LOC Airway Breathing Circulation …and any other pertinent positive or negative from the initial assessment

  12. Third Survey Perform Every Five Minutes on a sick patient

  13. But WHAT do we do When we have a Possibly dangerous scene And a BUNCH of sick or Injured people???

  14. Red Survey “Rapid Evaluation of Disaster” Incident Survey Casualty Survey Life-saving Skills and Interventions

  15. Red Survey “Rapid Evaluation of Disaster” Incident Survey ABCDE Casualty Survey ABCDE Life-saving Skills and Interventions ABCDE

  16. Summary Through the application of standard principles of scene assessment, patient surveys, and lifesaving skills, the ADLS Provider can maintain organization and efficiency in times of distress

More Related