Patient Assessment

Service Description

A common component of all first-responder education —regardless of whether it’s for law enforcement officers, firefighters, paramedics or EMTs — is learning to assess a situation. Patient and scene assessment is broken into three parts during this mini-class: Primary Assessment, Rapid Assessment of the patient’s ABCs (airway, breathing and circulation) and Secondary Assessment. This mini-class wraps up with a discussion of how to use an “emergency move” to safely relocate an injured patient. A common thread runs through all first-responder education, regardless of whether that education is for law enforcement officers, firefighters, paramedics or EMTs: learning to assess a situation. That includes assessing both the safety of a scene and the seriousness of a situation, understanding the need for additional help, and understanding the risks to any rescuers` personal safety. In this lesson, patient and scene assessment is broken into three parts: a primary assessment, which includes six steps; a rapid assessment of the patient’s ABCs (airway, breathing and circulation); and a secondary assessment. The lesson wraps up with a discussion of how you’d use an “emergency move” to safely move an injured patient.