EMT Skills: Trauma Patient Assessment/Management - EMTprep.com 

Couldn't agree more!

You mean we are SUPPOSED to make more then the guy making your coffee at Starbucks???

Shaun Sacks *than....

Pay more to public safety in general

+James Barack hey ,if anyone else wants to uncover emt exam questions try Nadazma Paramedic Helper ( search on google ) ? Ive heard some awesome things about it and my partner got excellent results with it.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Was the scenario they used similar to this one?

Congrats Moe!!!

Not certain about the points made but ,if anyone else needs to find out about emt final study guide try Corbandy Medic Study Crusher (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my colleague got great results with it.

How did u remember all this

Backwoods Badazz reading the sheets keep saying it over and over again. It will get stuck in your head.

Morgan Brown thank u man I have practical tommorow

You rock DT, congrats!!!

That’s awesome!! Congrats!

congrats for real good luck w your career

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Karen Rosado MINE TOO

Karen Rosado it was like my third skill yesterday

Karen Rosado the proctor was like the EMS coordinator for the school and was emotionless. I thought I failed but my trauma patient was pretty much uninjured. He fell off of a 25 foot ladder but had nothing but bruising. He was not breathing adequately so I had to bag him, and he was showing signs of compensated shock. Besides that he had some minor bruising and no bleeding

SMC good , did you say consider C-spine? Lol mines was a lot . If I remember it was vehicle accident , had a laceration and glass through chest

Karen Rosado Yea thankfully I remembered C-spine. I almost forgot to mention I would insert an OPA before bagging, but I remembered halfway through and said some like, “ I forgot to mention that I would insert an OPA before bagging.”

Same here these videos really help me alot

Ended up passing both the psychomotor and cognitive first try :)

How did you do?

@@kazl5044 Did you take it? How's life been? Lol hello from the future!

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how did things go?

@@notablediscomfort hey man! lol i didnt even know anyone replied to my comment. Anyways, I passed my NREMT and became a full-time EMT for about four years. I am not longer in the field and used my EMT experience to leverage myself into a completely different field which pays me muchhh better for my time. This video, however, is excellent and an amazing tool to study. my life is completely different from when i initially posted 6 years ago... was living in my parents garage going to school, ive since moved up and out and bought a house and have met the love of my life and we have a little one on the way :) my skills test went pretty much how this video went so... memorize. Good luck to you, stranger. you can absolutely do it I believe in you

Hey Andres, it's actually a super high-tech way to make sure you're awake :) On a serious note, we will look into toning the intros and outro down a bit. Hopefully you're still able to get some good use out of them.

Thanks! Awesome video though! Helped me passed my skills portion!

I also dislike the intro/outro sound. It's shrill and piercing. But I do like the videos.

i'm pretty sure my ears are bleeding

😂😂😂

Facts

That's a plus, it's not on the nremt sheet

thats what you're checking when palpating and exposing.

@@micaman33 You are still supposed to do it first via inspection, then palpation. Don't want to risk rupturing an AAA.

@@selenasilva7339 When palpating the abdomen you do it light and then a little deeper in each quadrant. So this would be AAA safe. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm is not super common plus this assessment is supposed to be fast. In my studies, we never discussed AAA as a result of trauma. I think it's safer, in general, to do the head to toe assessment fast so you can identify life threats and transport that critical patient.

WiseRock Man I agree! (Sally mcburger flipper made me laugh so damn hard) 😂😂❤️

@A squished grape Your point would be valid IF paramedics made considerably more than EMTs, except THEY DON'T...

@Enigma McC hey I resemble that comment rotflmao

really? damn, glad i dont live in the states

@@LowCostWaterSoftenersI love that this comment has a good translate option 😂

I didn't see a c collar in the tools, but he did mention that he would take c spine precautions. Your right though he should have at least verbally stated that he was going to have his partner control c spine.

@@ErichBaltzellProductions My guess is... The proctor said there was decreased breath sounds... That shows inadequate breathing.

Also, at the end he missed treating the lower blood pressure. 92/68 in a critical patient showing signs of hypovolemic shock should get a large bore IV with Ringers/NS at a drip rate to maintain current blood pressure.

@@Bigjiggins Thanks! Sorry, I'm not familiar with the EMT regulations.

@@Bigjiggins Lol yeah that’s parametric level. Maybe that’d be extra credit

SMC Great job I’ll be taking mine today 🤗

Mykaka Kaka I hope you do well. Just breathe and relax. The time limits give you plenty of time to clear your head if you need to. Everything you learned will come back to you, trust me.

SMC just got back from the practical, passed on my first try🥳☺️. Thank you for the advice 🥰

Mykaka Kaka Congratulations . And no problem.

We can't thank you enough Aleks. We're so excited that you've gotten good use out of them.

+smj1245 Best of luck! If you haven't already, be sure to check out our website, EMTprep.com for more study tools.

Well i passed my assessmnet but failed my skill test. Long bone immobilization . More practice for me!

+smj1245 good job and fast lesson, if you want to know more and more detail about this please check "corbandy medic study crusher" on google, this is the way for more information and detail, mostly people check it..

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here i am 7 years later doing it again for my medic 😂

Thanks Hayley! Congratulations on passing your tests and best of luck in your job interviews. You'll crush it. Let us know if you have any questions, we're here to help.

Or as we were taught "CAB" Circulation, Airway, then Breathing. So you wont be confused with the two B's

totally. I was kinda surprised he didn't approach the leg issue sooner and add pressure to stop bleeding, and/or traction splint.

Thanks so much for the feedback! We're stoked you guys are getting good use out of them.

Hi Danny. Congratulations!!!! I’m in my EMT course in NY too. Man, I’d love if you could direct me toward some helpful videos like this one. Good luck out there!

Mark thanks so much for the great feedback and CONGRATS!!!

Well how did it go 6 years ago ? Are you a paramedic yet ?

What were the other 2 assessments

CONGRATULATIONS Sarah! Never stop learning.

He put her on O2

+Miguel Reyes yes he did, but since her R.R. was pretty inadequate, you would need to ventilate via BVM because the R.R. is so high. Nonrebreather is okay, but BVM is the best in my opinion. At least that is what i learned when I was going through EMT school.

+Miguel Reyes Yes that's true.... A patient with any type of respiratory distress or problems should have supplemental O2 whether that is 2-6 LPM on NC or 12-15 LPM on NRB; however, my point was the way he delivered the O2 should have been via BVM instead of NRB. With a BVM you can rather attempt to control the patient's breathing, thus putting her back in the ideal range of R.R. 12-20. The easiest way to think of it is inadequate breathing- breath for them BVM and adequate breathing- they got it NRB or NC. The reason it is so important to control the breathing is because at the rate of 30 she is blowing off way too much CO2 putting her at risk for respiratory alkalosis. +Buck1223

+That Guy Hill That is the way I learned it!

+That Guy Hill you have no idea how much I have been looking for this answer. I have my Skills training tomorrow and I am kinda freaking out about not passing it. This really does help.

That's awesome!!! CONGRATS to you!!!

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Awesome advice and CONGRATULATIONS!!

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You're very welcome Johan!

+EMTprep I passed! Now I'm just waiting to take the national registration exam!

+Matthatter14 Awesome Matt! Glad you're getting some good use out of it. Check back this next month for our advanced skill videos.

That is awesome Machel! Glad we can help. Be sure to let us know how your test goes.

Sorry for the delay. I passed the test for the third time with ease, with time still left on the clock. Emtprep helped me a lot. Thank you!!!

Absolutely Tom! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! NEVER STOP LEARNING!

I'm thinking flail chest

That was my first assumption right before i heard the skin condition and the second set of vitals, first stage of hypovolemic shock. Since there isn't any abnormal chest movements it sounds more like a hemothorax.

could be, but with a tension pneumothorax you would be looking for tracheal deviation.

The Bro Era just because there is no abnormal chest movements doesn't she doesnt have tension pneumothorax actually tension pneumothorax has a sign which is tracheal deviation towards the uninjured side lung due to pressure of injured lung pushing towards uninjured side. especially when you have occlusive dressing over injured area burp the dressing get the air acculumated out

yep exactly nice JDuke98

Awesome Arch! Congratulations!!!! Never stop learning! We're excited we got to play a small role in helping you achieve your career goals. Best of luck on all your future endeavors!! Be sure to check out the CE portion of our site. We still have a free 5 hours offer going on now.

The Crazy Amazing infantry pete Rapps Glad you like them!

You'll see that most of the things we do are based on wartime medicine. The first book of BLS trauma was essentially written in Vietnam, no better way to get large scale data than when you have hundreds of different traumas to test procedures on!

Best of luck! You've got this!

@@Emtprep was not expecting a reply but I passed today! Take my registry exam Friday! Appreciate all you guy and gals do for us. Thanks again!

Me too

@@UnityJourneyOfHope good luck. You can do it

You bet! Sometimes it helps when people break down the skill sheets into chunks of information that they can remember. We have seen some students make a handful of acronyms to help them remember each step of the skill sheets. Keep watching the videos to help reinforce what you know and then practice, practice, practice. Let us know if you have any questions, we're here for you!

Here is an assessment module I learned after 15 years as an EMT in a 700 call a day system. I’m now on year 20. 1st..... do the whole scene safe. BSI number of pts. General impression. Then approach the pt. This works if pt is awake or unresponsive..... introduce yourself say to pt can you tell me whats goin on with u today. If they answer u or don’t u just got pts GCS. grab the radial pulse. Say to examiner. Do I have a pulse. Yes no. If no start cpr. Is it fast or slow. That’s all u want to know. Say I’m feeling for pulse. Fast or slow. I’m also feeling skin also is it cool hot sweaty and color. They will answer u. Say to pt can u open ur mouth for me. See if they follow commands. If so say is my airway patient. Then take stethoscope and listen to all 4 lung lobes. Say how’s there breathing good bad labored. They will say clear or rales or whatever. If it’s bad put on a non rebreather. Then palpate 4 quadrants of abdomen. Then palpate pelvis. Then long bones. Then feel for pedal pulses. Tell pt to push down on ur hand with there feet and pull back. U just did a CVA test. Go back up. Grab hands and say squeeze. Again CVA. say open up mouth stick tongue out. Smile for me. Again CVA. See if they follow commands. Look in the eyes say dilated or pinpoint. Your done. U just hit every check off point on the national registry check off sheet. Get a quick set of real vitals. Load pt up. Do a secondary assessment 2nd set of vitals your done. This takes about 60 seconds. Works on an alert pt or unresponsive pt medical or trauma. If you take a pt into the emergency room trauma room 1 this is the same assessment that every ER doctor does on every pt. 60 seconds your done. U started at the head worked ur way down to the feet and went back up to the head. U went up. Down. Back up. U checked for pulses. U checked skin. U checked skin color. U checked level of consciousness. U checked airway. U checked breath sounds. U checked abdomen. U checked pelvis. Long bones. CVA. Pedal pulses. Pupils. Found any bleeding. U checked off everything on the national registry sheet. U get a 100. And it took 45-60 seconds. We now have 500 medics in our county. I’ve been there longer than all 500 of them. They now teach all 500 of us this assessment module. I learned this 15 years into my career. It made me a 100 times better medic than I ever was. It works. I do it on every pt. No matter what we’re called out for. Medical. Trauma. Peds. Adults. Responsive. Unresponsive. Don’t matter. Hope this helps someone.

Super stoked for you! Congratulations!!!! Never stop learning.

You've got this Jenesa! Best of luck on your test! Be sure to let us know how it goes.

Make sure you know your anatomy really REALLY WELL! I'd say that would help you even more.

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Thanks for the compliment Andrew! We've got more videos in the works. Stay tuned!

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I passed every skill without having to retest! Thanks again! 😄

You rocked it Emma! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Never stop learning!!!

+Kiwi Ambo Sounds like a good game plan Kiwi!

I think there is time for 02 and a c-collar she was launched 30ft from a vehicle don’t you think that’s pretty important?

Baek Doo San Nice job. I'm over here sweating for mine.

+ltsmum3316 Hey man, thank you. I was sitting in the room waiting for them to call my name and I thought I was going to have a heart attack. Then when I got in, I zoomed right through it with no effort. The best advice I got for passing was from a paramedic friend of mine. "Never think outside of the box, always think straightforward and with your gut". Good luck man!

Baek Doo San But THANKS!!!

That is so awesome!!!! Congratulations Baek!!!!

You'll knock it out, try not to worry! Watch our videos on how to study, check out EMTprep.com for a bunch of great resources, and you'll do great. Supplement our test prep product with your textbook and class notes and you'll be certified in no time!

+Christian Surma Awesome Christian! Glad you like it.

Christian Here is an assessment module I learned after 15 years as an EMT in a 700 call a day system. I’m now on year 20. 1st..... do the whole scene safe. BSI number of pts. General impression. Then approach the pt. This works if pt is awake or unresponsive..... introduce yourself say to pt can you tell me whats goin on with u today. If they answer u or don’t u just got pts GCS. grab the radial pulse. Say to examiner. Do I have a pulse. Yes no. If no start cpr. Is it fast or slow. That’s all u want to know. Say I’m feeling for pulse. Fast or slow. I’m also feeling skin also is it cool hot sweaty and color. They will answer u. Say to pt can u open ur mouth for me. See if they follow commands. If so say is my airway patient. Then take stethoscope and listen to all 4 lung lobes. Say how’s there breathing good bad labored. They will say clear or rales or whatever. If it’s bad put on a non rebreather. Then palpate 4 quadrants of abdomen. Then palpate pelvis. Then long bones. Then feel for pedal pulses. Tell pt to push down on ur hand with there feet and pull back. U just did a CVA test. Go back up. Grab hands and say squeeze. Again CVA. say open up mouth stick tongue out. Smile for me. Again CVA. See if they follow commands. Look in the eyes say dilated or pinpoint. Your done. U just hit every check off point on the national registry check off sheet. Get a quick set of real vitals. Load pt up. Do a secondary assessment 2nd set of vitals your done. This takes about 60 seconds. Works on an alert pt or unresponsive pt medical or trauma. If you take a pt into the emergency room trauma room 1 this is the same assessment that every ER doctor does on every pt. 60 seconds your done. U started at the head worked ur way down to the feet and went back up to the head. U went up. Down. Back up. U checked for pulses. U checked skin. U checked skin color. U checked level of consciousness. U checked airway. U checked breath sounds. U checked abdomen. U checked pelvis. Long bones. CVA. Pedal pulses. Pupils. Found any bleeding. U checked off everything on the national registry sheet. U get a 100. And it took 45-60 seconds. We now have 500 medics in our county. I’ve been there longer than all 500 of them. They now teach all 500 of us this assessment module. I learned this 15 years into my career. It made me a 100 times better medic than I ever was. It works. I do it on every pt. No matter what we’re called out for. Medical. Trauma. Peds. Adults. Responsive. Unresponsive. Don’t matter. Hope this helps someone.

Let us know how it goes!

@@Emtprep i passed first try

What awesome news!!!! Congratulations to you! We're so excited we got to play a small part in helping you reach your career goals. Never stop learning!!!!

Hey Raul, definitely something he could have done. Good thinking!!

Here is an assessment module I learned after 15 years as an EMT in a 700 call a day system. I’m now on year 20. 1st..... do the whole scene safe. BSI number of pts. General impression. Then approach the pt. This works if pt is awake or unresponsive..... introduce yourself say to pt can you tell me whats goin on with u today. If they answer u or don’t u just got pts GCS. grab the radial pulse. Say to examiner. Do I have a pulse. Yes no. If no start cpr. Is it fast or slow. That’s all u want to know. Say I’m feeling for pulse. Fast or slow. I’m also feeling skin also is it cool hot sweaty and color. They will answer u. Say to pt can u open ur mouth for me. See if they follow commands. If so say is my airway patient. Then take stethoscope and listen to all 4 lung lobes. Say how’s there breathing good bad labored. They will say clear or rales or whatever. If it’s bad put on a non rebreather. Then palpate 4 quadrants of abdomen. Then palpate pelvis. Then long bones. Then feel for pedal pulses. Tell pt to push down on ur hand with there feet and pull back. U just did a CVA test. Go back up. Grab hands and say squeeze. Again CVA. say open up mouth stick tongue out. Smile for me. Again CVA. See if they follow commands. Look in the eyes say dilated or pinpoint. Your done. U just hit every check off point on the national registry check off sheet. Get a quick set of real vitals. Load pt up. Do a secondary assessment 2nd set of vitals your done. This takes about 60 seconds. Works on an alert pt or unresponsive pt medical or trauma. If you take a pt into the emergency room trauma room 1 this is the same assessment that every ER doctor does on every pt. 60 seconds your done. U started at the head worked ur way down to the feet and went back up to the head. U went up. Down. Back up. U checked for pulses. U checked skin. U checked skin color. U checked level of consciousness. U checked airway. U checked breath sounds. U checked abdomen. U checked pelvis. Long bones. CVA. Pedal pulses. Pupils. Found any bleeding. U checked off everything on the national registry sheet. U get a 100. And it took 45-60 seconds. We now have 500 medics in our county. I’ve been there longer than all 500 of them. They now teach all 500 of us this assessment module. I learned this 15 years into my career. It made me a 100 times better medic than I ever was. It works. I do it on every pt. No matter what we’re called out for. Medical. Trauma. Peds. Adults. Responsive. Unresponsive. Don’t matter. Hope this helps someone.

***** Great work Rodrigo! We're very excited that you're finding these videos helpful.

Rodrigo Here is an assessment module I learned after 15 years as an EMT in a 700 call a day system. I’m now on year 20. 1st..... do the whole scene safe. BSI number of pts. General impression. Then approach the pt. This works if pt is awake or unresponsive..... introduce yourself say to pt can you tell me whats goin on with u today. If they answer u or don’t u just got pts GCS. grab the radial pulse. Say to examiner. Do I have a pulse. Yes no. If no start cpr. Is it fast or slow. That’s all u want to know. Say I’m feeling for pulse. Fast or slow. I’m also feeling skin also is it cool hot sweaty and color. They will answer u. Say to pt can u open ur mouth for me. See if they follow commands. If so say is my airway patient. Then take stethoscope and listen to all 4 lung lobes. Say how’s there breathing good bad labored. They will say clear or rales or whatever. If it’s bad put on a non rebreather. Then palpate 4 quadrants of abdomen. Then palpate pelvis. Then long bones. Then feel for pedal pulses. Tell pt to push down on ur hand with there feet and pull back. U just did a CVA test. Go back up. Grab hands and say squeeze. Again CVA. say open up mouth stick tongue out. Smile for me. Again CVA. See if they follow commands. Look in the eyes say dilated or pinpoint. Your done. U just hit every check off point on the national registry check off sheet. Get a quick set of real vitals. Load pt up. Do a secondary assessment 2nd set of vitals your done. This takes about 60 seconds. Works on an alert pt or unresponsive pt medical or trauma. If you take a pt into the emergency room trauma room 1 this is the same assessment that every ER doctor does on every pt. 60 seconds your done. U started at the head worked ur way down to the feet and went back up to the head. U went up. Down. Back up. U checked for pulses. U checked skin. U checked skin color. U checked level of consciousness. U checked airway. U checked breath sounds. U checked abdomen. U checked pelvis. Long bones. CVA. Pedal pulses. Pupils. Found any bleeding. U checked off everything on the national registry sheet. U get a 100. And it took 45-60 seconds. We now have 500 medics in our county. I’ve been there longer than all 500 of them. They now teach all 500 of us this assessment module. I learned this 15 years into my career. It made me a 100 times better medic than I ever was. It works. I do it on every pt. No matter what we’re called out for. Medical. Trauma. Peds. Adults. Responsive. Unresponsive. Don’t matter. Hope this helps someone.

Great to hear Nayden!

James Ciliberti instructor said little bleeding. No need to spend time on it

Do it bro, I am.

Hey Mike, definitely do as you're told on test day. Sometimes there are differences between test centers, some will want to see everything, some will want you to verbalize everything.