Primary Assessment

Question 1

What is ALWAYS step 1 in your primary assessment.

Answer 1

Survey the Scene.
(Is the Scene Safe?)

Question 2

Protecting you from the patient, and the patient from you.

Answer 2

Body Substance Isolation
(BSI)
Gloves, Masks, Glasses, Gowns etc.

Question 3

What should you always do before treating a pateint?

Answer 3

Introduce yourself & ask for consent.

Question 4

The system/mnemonic use to identify life threats in your primary assessment

Answer 4

(H) - Hemorrhaging
A - Airway (Are they Breathing)
B - Breathing (What is the quality of breathing?)
C - Circulation (Do they have a pulse? If so, what’s the quality?)
D - Deformaties (Fractures, Dislocations, Amputations, Impaled Objects)
E - Environment (Is the environment you and the PT are in dangerous?)

Question 5

What is considered a significant MOI to cause spinal damage?

Answer 5

• A fall 3x or greater than the PT’s height
• A sudden Impact or sudden deceleration causing axial loading (e.g. car wreck)
• An object striking the PT’s head (e.g. falling ice, boulder, debris)

Question 6

This check is used to quickly identify deformities once ABC’s have been cleared.

Answer 6

Chunk Check!
Identifying pain, locating bleeding, bruising, dislocations, crepitation, impaled objects