Advanced Assessment for the Paramedic Class Week 1 - Text Chapter 10

1. Health & Physical Assessment in Nursing First Edition Chapter 7 General Survey Donita D’Amico and Colleen Barbarito

3. Bledsoe et al., Paramedic Care Principles & Practice Volume 2: Patient Assessment © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, NJ Ed’s S 3 Sixth Sense of Sickness Sick or Not Sick? a.k.a = BS factor

8. General Survey = The Size Up Class Exercise: Partner up and size up the person next to you for: 15 seconds then 90 seconds

10. The General Survey

18. Figure 7.2 Measuring the client’s height with a platform scale.

19. Figure 7.4 Measuring the client’s weight with a standard platform scale.

20. Table 7.1 1999 Metropolitan Height and Weight Tables, Men and Women, Ages 25 to 59

22. Vitals

25. Going “Ye Ol’ Schoole”

35. Box 7.1 Korotkoff’s Sounds

36. Box 7.1 (continued) Korotkoff’s Sounds

39. Figure 7.15 The Wong-Baker “Faces” pain rating scale. Source: From Hockenberry, MJ, Wilson D., Winkelstein ML:Wong’s Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, ed.7, St.Louis, 2005, p.1259. Used with permission. Copyright Mosby.

46. End Tidal CO 2 Detection Capnography Wave Form

47. Break