Primary assessment ABCDE

Question 1

Airway: What question, what to look for, listen for, feel for?

Answer 1

Are you ok?
Look for chest movement
Listen for sounds of breath
Feel for expired air

Question 2

Breathing: What do you look for? (4)

Answer 2

Color, rash, marks
Effort
Rate
Symmetry

Question 3

Breathing: What do you feel for?

Answer 3

Tracheal tug or deviation

Question 4

Breathing: What do you percuss for?

Where do you percuss?

Answer 4

Dullness, stony dullness, hypersonor sounds

Upper, middle and lower zones of anterior and posterior chest wall. Axills.

Question 5

Breathing: What do you listen for?

Answer 5

Breath sounds (present, absent, masked)

Question 6

Circulation: what are the 5 P:s?

Answer 6

Pulse (venous, peripheral
Pressure (blood pressure, pulse presure, venous pressure)
Perfusion (cerebral, skin)
Precordium
Pulmonary

Question 7

PHRASED: vad ingår?

Answer 7

Problem
History of problem
Relevant medical history
Allergies
Systems review
Essential family and social history
Drugs

Question 8

5 lifethreatening conditions to identify and treat at B?

Answer 8

Acute asthma with bronchial spasm
Acute exacerbation of COPD
Tension pneumothorax
Pulmonary oedema
Critical oxygen desaturation

Question 9

What causes are to be sought when respiratory failure treatment is unsuccessful?

Answer 9

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