COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
\.Initial Assessment: B-SMNAC - ANSWERS✔-- BSI (body substance isolation);
- Scene Safety;
- Mechanism of Injury (MOI)/Nature of Illness (NOI);
- Number of Patients;
- Assistance (additional units, Fire, Police, etc.);
- C-spine (and/or C-collar)
\.Initial Assessment: G-CAAT - ANSWERS✔-- General Impression;
- Chief Complaints, Life Threats (hemorrhage);
- AVPU;
- ABC's (airway, breathing, circulation);
- Transport Decision (Load and Go or Stay and Play)
\.Components of General Impression - ANSWERS✔-ASSS-FLOP-VD:
- Apparent state of health;
- Skin color, obvious lesions;
- Signs of distress;
,- Sexual development;
- Facial expressions;
- Level of consciousness;
- Odors;
- Posture, Motor, Gait;
- Vital statistics;
- Dress, Grooming, Hygiene
\.Components of AVPU - ANSWERS✔-- Alert;
- responds to Verbal stimuli;
- responds to Painful stimuli;
- Unresponsive
\.Secondary Assessment: OPQRST-I - ANSWERS✔-especially for Respiratory and
Cardiac patients:
- Onset;
- Provocation/Palliation;
- Quality;
- Radiation;
- Scale/Severity;
- Time;
- Interventions
,\.What is OPQRST? - ANSWERS✔-a mnemonic for remembering the questions to
ask when assessing the patient's chief complaint or major symptoms
\.Onset - ANSWERS✔-- When and how did the symptom begin?
- Ask the patient if the onset was sudden or gradual.
- Also determine if the onset was associated with a particular activity.
\.Provocation/palliation: - ANSWERS✔-- What makes the symptom worse?
- What makes the symptom better?
\.Quality - ANSWERS✔-How would you describe the pain?
\.Radiation - ANSWERS✔-- Where do you feel the pain?;
- Where does the pain go?
\.Scale/Severity - ANSWERS✔-- On a scale from 0 to 10, with 10 being the worst.
- How bad is the symptom?
\.Time - ANSWERS✔-- Determine if the symptom has been present for minutes,
hours, days, weeks, months, or years;
- The length of time the symptoms are present is important to document
, \.Secondary Assessment: SAMPLE - ANSWERS✔-- Signs and Symptoms (history of
present issues);
- Allergies;
- Medications;
- Past Medical History, Pertinent Negatives;
- Last Oral Intake;
- Events (leading to present: trauma or medical)
\.Secondary Assessment: V-FITD - ANSWERS✔-- Vital Signs, baseline (VS);
- Focused Physical Exam (performed);
- Interventions (RX's per medical direction, etc.);
- Transport (re-evaluate decision);
- Detailed Physical Exam (verbalized);
\.Order of Initial Assessment - ANSWERS✔-- B-SMNAC;
- G-CAAT;
\.Order of Secondary Assessment - ANSWERS✔-- OPQRST-I;
- SAMPLE;
- V-FITD
\.S1 - ANSWERS✔-"Lub"
Caused by the closing of the Mitral (Bicuspid) and Tricuspid atrioventricular valves.