Firefighter Intern: Day 43 and 44
Nov. 16th, 2018 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grim23House chores and studying, and then about 4pm we were toned out for a lady with chest pain. I was right on it, and carried in the jump kit and grabbed the monitor to hand off to the paramedic. We decided to do most of the assessment in the back of the Medic unit, so I got to listen to the questions. I wasn't able to administer a blood glucose test (it's considered an invasive procedure that is above an EMT Student level), but I was able to help prepare the test kit and learned to prep it more efficiently. I was able to get assess respirations and blood pressure while we are en route, and reported it correctly to the paramedic as he was giving the report to the hospital. This is exactly the stuff I'm just reading and studying about. *smile*
This was my only call, as we had the Paramedic Intern - who took my place on all of the other calls, so I spent most of all of my second day studying and slept well without interruptions. *smile*
I think I'll start adding some of the things I'm learning to my journal:
SAMPLE and OPQRST(I) are used for the history taking section of patient assessments.
S Signs and symptoms (signs are what the EMT sees, symptoms are what a patient experiences.)
A Allergies
M Medications
P Past medical history or pertinent history
L Last oral intake
E Events leading to incident
O Onset: What was the patient doing when the signs and symptoms first occurred? Was the onset sudden or gradual?
P Provocation / Palliation: Is there anything that makes the symptom better or worse?
Q Quality: Description of what the patient is feeling. For example, the pain can be described as dull, sharp, crushing, aching, tearing, throbbing, etc.
R Region / Radiation: Where is the pain located and does it move to another part of the body?
S Severity: How severe is the symptom based on a scale of 1 to 10?
T Time: When did the signs and symptoms first occur?
I Intervention: What did the patient already do before you got there?
This was my only call, as we had the Paramedic Intern - who took my place on all of the other calls, so I spent most of all of my second day studying and slept well without interruptions. *smile*
I think I'll start adding some of the things I'm learning to my journal:
SAMPLE and OPQRST(I) are used for the history taking section of patient assessments.
S Signs and symptoms (signs are what the EMT sees, symptoms are what a patient experiences.)
A Allergies
M Medications
P Past medical history or pertinent history
L Last oral intake
E Events leading to incident
O Onset: What was the patient doing when the signs and symptoms first occurred? Was the onset sudden or gradual?
P Provocation / Palliation: Is there anything that makes the symptom better or worse?
Q Quality: Description of what the patient is feeling. For example, the pain can be described as dull, sharp, crushing, aching, tearing, throbbing, etc.
R Region / Radiation: Where is the pain located and does it move to another part of the body?
S Severity: How severe is the symptom based on a scale of 1 to 10?
T Time: When did the signs and symptoms first occur?
I Intervention: What did the patient already do before you got there?
