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You are dispatched to a motel for an unknown medical emergency. The room is small with two beds and two occupants. The patient is a 33-year-old woman lying supine on the bed. She opens her eyes when you speak to her but is lethargic and reports fever, chills, vomiting, and diarrhea. The man in the room tells you she has been sick for several days and has not eaten in the past 2 days. Your assessment reveals pain and tenderness in the right lower abdominal quadrant. Her vital signs are a blood pressure level of 100/60 mm Hg; a pulse rate of 140 beats/min, strong and bounding; and a respiratory rate of 24 breaths/min and shallow. Her skin is flushed and hot to the touch. The patient reports no significant medical history and does not take any medications.
What is the first concern when entering this room?
Scene safety
You are dispatched to a motel for an unknown medical emergency. The room is small with two beds and two occupants. The patient is a 33-year-old woman lying supine on the bed. She opens her eyes when you speak to her but is lethargic and reports fever, chills, vomiting, and diarrhea. The man in the room tells you she has been sick for several days and has not eaten in the past 2 days. Your assessment reveals pain and tenderness in the right lower abdominal quadrant. Her vital signs are a blood pressure level of 100/60 mm Hg; a pulse rate of 140 beats/min, strong and bounding; and a respiratory rate of 24 breaths/min and shallow. Her skin is flushed and hot to the touch. The patient reports no significant medical history and does not take any medications.
What is this patient responsive to?
Verbal stimuli
You are dispatched to a motel for an unknown medical emergency. The room is small with two beds and two occupants. The patient is a 33-year-old woman lying supine on the bed. She opens her eyes when you speak to her but is lethargic and reports fever, chills, vomiting, and diarrhea. The man in the room tells you she has been sick for several days and has not eaten in the past 2 days. Your assessment reveals pain and tenderness in the right lower abdominal quadrant. Her vital signs are a blood pressure level of 100/60 mm Hg; a pulse rate of 140 beats/min, strong and bounding; and a respiratory rate of 24 breaths/min and shallow. Her skin is flushed and hot to the touch. The patient reports no significant medical history and does not take any medications.
What is this patient's chief complaint?
Fever and chills
Which of the following terms would be used to describe the patient's pulse rate of 140 beats/min?
Tachycardia
What is a pertinent negative?
A negative finding that requires no further care or intervention
What is a primary assessment?
A process that identifies life threats
How would you proceed if you found an unsafe condition on scene?
If you can make the scene safe without endangering yourself or anyone else, do so. If not, retreat to a safe area and call for additional appropriate resources to deal with the hazard(s) that you have identified.
Describe an objective finding for the patient.
The patient's blood pressure is 100/60 mm Hg, her pulse rate is 140 beats/min (tachycardia), and respirations are 24 breaths/min. Her skin is hot to the touch and flushed, and she has tenderness in the right lower abdominal quadrant.
Describe a subjective finding for the patient.
The patient has fever, chills, vomiting, and diarrhea.
How does the mnemonic SAMPLE assist you in assessing the patient?
The SAMPLE mnemonic helps ensure that you remember to ask the pertinent questions about a patient's condition, even if you are forced to stop your line of questioning to provide treatment, ask more specific questions about a particular issue, or are otherwise interrupted
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