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Initial Assessment: B-SMNAC - Precise Answer ✔✔- 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 - Precise Answer ✔✔- 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 - Precise Answer ✔✔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 - Precise Answer ✔✔- Alert;
- responds to Verbal stimuli;
- responds to Painful stimuli;
- Unresponsive
Secondary Assessment: OPQRST-I - Precise Answer ✔✔especially for
Respiratory and Cardiac patients:
- Onset;
- Provocation/Palliation;
- Quality;
- Radiation;
- Scale/Severity;
- Time;
- Interventions
,What is OPQRST? - Precise Answer ✔✔a mnemonic for remembering
the questions to ask when assessing the patient's chief complaint or
major symptoms
Onset - Precise Answer ✔✔- 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: - Precise Answer ✔✔- What makes the symptom
worse?
- What makes the symptom better?
Quality - Precise Answer ✔✔How would you describe the pain?
Radiation - Precise Answer ✔✔- Where do you feel the pain?;
- Where does the pain go?
Scale/Severity - Precise Answer ✔✔- On a scale from 0 to 10, with 10
being the worst.
- How bad is the symptom?
Time - Precise Answer ✔✔- 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 - Precise Answer ✔✔- 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 - Precise Answer ✔✔- 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 - Precise Answer ✔✔- B-SMNAC;
- G-CAAT;
Order of Secondary Assessment - Precise Answer ✔✔- OPQRST-I;
- SAMPLE;
- V-FITD
S1 - Precise Answer ✔✔"Lub"