PARA104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dont, Blood Sugar, Current History
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Clinical approach: patient assessment, systematic approach. ** you only need to learn the clinical approach relevant to your. This section is relevant to all states. The ability to thoroughly assess a patient is arguably the most important skill of a paramedic. Poor and/or incomplete patient assessment can lead too: missed diagnosis of illness and injury, wrong diagnosis of injury and illness, mismanagement, potentially leading to leading morbidity and mortality. Highly skilled paramedics complete a thorough assessment on every patient. To ensure that patient assessment is thorough the paramedics utilise a systemic. Patient assessment: a systemic assessment ensure that all body systems are adequately assessed. Systemic patient assessment forms part of the clinical approach: the clinical approach ensures that a systemic patient assessment is carried out and also that and vital treatment is implemented quickly. Is considered a basic level of care/assessment to be applied to all patents.
