Clinical Decision Making in EMS ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Clinical Decision Making in EMS ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Integrate scene and patient assessment findings
with knowledge of epidemiology and pathophysiology to form a field impression. This
includes developing a list of differential diagnoses through clinical reasoning to modify the
assessment and formulate a treatment plan


Well....you need to (pretty quickly): - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅-Identify the problem(s) -
Decide what is important (Set priorities) -Develop a plan -Execute it
•Recipe=ineffective care
-Patients are different -Scenes are different
•No matter what, you are expected
to provide quality patient care.


Gather. Evaluate. Synthesize - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅•You must be able to
communicate and obtain information from many types of patients, including:
-Different age groups
-Different educational backgrounds
-Different abilities to communicate
-Patients who have consumed drugs or alcohol


•Gather the information
•Assess and evaluate the information
•Develop a treatment plan
-Check the validity of information using your judgment and communication skills.
•Be as objective as possible


•Evaluate the information you obtain from: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅-The scene
-The patient
-A bystander
•Determine what is valid and invalid.