Every day: Do something for yourself, your family, and your department. –John Spanarella
Category Archives: StraightFromMyNotebook
#StraightFromMyNotebook – 6 Rights of Medication Administration
*Note* #StraightFromMyNotebook posts are condensed from my actual notebooks and class materials. Text Used is : Emergency Care And Transportation Of The Sick And Injured: A Comprehensive Guide
#StraightFromMyNotebook – Musculoskeletal Assessment
The 6 Ps of musculoskeletal assessment
*Note* #StraightFromMyNotebook posts are condensed from my actual notebooks and class materials. Text Used is : Emergency Care And Transportation Of The Sick And Injured: A Comprehensive Guide
#StraightFromMyNotebook – The Box Heart
This is a visual by Mike Kacsur my EMT instructor. It’s called “The Box Heart”. The TAs giggled about it, but I thought it was a great visual aid that was easy to conceptualize and easy to memorize (as evidenced by my score on the test) 🙂 Yes it’s simplistic, but effective.
Here is my original scrawled note…
You can enlarge it if you like, but it won’t be any easier to read!
Here is one that I made in dia.
Click to enlarge! If you like it, please be sure to drop Mike a line and let him know!
#StraightFromMyNotebook – Signs of Death
Presumptive signs of death
- Unresponsive to pain
- No pulse (carotid)
- No breathing
- No deep tendon or corneal reflexes
- No eye movement
- No systole
- Profound cyanosis
- Low core temperature
Definitive Signs of Death
- Obvious Mortal damage (ie decapitation)
- Dependent lividity (blood settling)
- Rigor mortis (stiffening of muscles, 2-12 hours after death)
- Putrefaction (decomposition of body tissues (40-96 hours after death))
*Note* #StraightFromMyNotebook posts are condensed from my actual notebooks and class materials. Text Used is : Emergency Care And Transportation Of The Sick And Injured: A Comprehensive Guide
#StraightFromMyNotebook – Assessment
“If it’s wet, it’s infectious”
*Note* #StraightFromMyNotebook posts are condensed from my actual notebooks and class materials. Text Used is : Emergency Care And Transportation Of The Sick And Injured: A Comprehensive Guide
#StraightFromMyNotebook – Transmission methods
An infectious disease is a medical condition caused by growth and spread of small, harmful organisms.
A communicable disease is a disease that can spread from one person to another.
Transmission is the way an infectious disease gets spread
- Direct Contact – Touching person to person
- Indirect Contact – Spread of infection through an inanimate object. (An object that transmits infection is called a fomite).
- Airborne Transmission – Through mechanisms like droplets (sneeze droplets, ew) or dust.
- Vector borne – Infection by animal or insect bites etc.
*Note* #StraightFromMyNotebook posts are condensed from my actual notebooks and class materials. Text Used is : Emergency Care And Transportation Of The Sick And Injured: A Comprehensive Guide