What is your definition of a medical emergency and when do you feel the EMS should be activated?
Medical emergency:
Emergency medical services:
When do you activate EMS?
What is your definition of a medical emergency and when do you feel the EMS should...
Scenario The emergency medical services (EMS) team has brought a 54-year-old female patient to the emergency department where you are working. The EMS personnel state that the patient was found wandering in a nearby park by a jogger, who called 911 from her cell phone after the woman screamed obscenities at her and then fell, seriously scraping her arm and face. The woman is bleeding, disoriented, combative, and accusing the EMS team of stealing her purse. Her hands are shaking...
while waiting the arrival of EMS, what aspects of the patients condition should the medical assistant continuously monitor ?
4. In some firefighting organizations, you must serve as a firefighter for some period of time before you can become part of the emergency medical service arm of the organization. Does EMS workers are older, on average, than traditional firefighters? Use the data and rank shown and a 05 to test whether EMS workers are significantly older than firefighters. Assume the two groups are independent. (12.25 pts) Firefighter EMS workers 27 39 29 23 32 37 24 28 21 25...
The husband of an elderly woman, who had become incoherent over the past day, called emergency medical services (EMS). When they arrived at the house and asked the woman’s husband for her history, he told them his wife had diabetes and hypertension for many years. Before calling EMS, he had checked her medicines and, based on the number of pills still left in the bottle, he estimated she had not been taking her antihypertensive medication for about 2 weeks. On...
When activating the EMS to seek medical help; why is it important to know the anatomical terminology of a victim's position, direction, and location? Explain each position and give an example of each. Why is conveying such information is vital? And, to what extent will this information help medical personnel?
To what extent and under what circumstances do you feel that people’s behavior should be controlled? Do you feel it is acceptable to control people in ways that they don’t know they are being controlled? Give reasons for your answer.
When writing project proposals, what do you feel are the most important issues to address? For example, to what level of detail do you feel that scope should be clarified, qualifications provided, assumptions given, etc.? And do you feel that the level of detail should change given the project size or type?
Do you feel that supplements should be regulated by the FDA? If so, and it becomes necessary to have a prescription, who should be writing these prescriptions? Medical physicians? Naturopaths? Nutritionists? Herbalists? How will these practitioners educate themselves on these topics?
why should the medical assitant avoid the phase. " i know how you feel"
Do you feel that management should have involved nurses from ED and the floor when trying to create a solution to the problem?