Comments on: Mastering The Head-To-Toe Assessment http://theemtspot.com/2010/02/08/mastering-the-head-to-toe-assessment/ Medicine Moves Fast ... Keep Up. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:23:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grand Rounds Volume 6 number 23 | Grand Rounds Volume 6 number 23 dr oz | Grand Rounds Volume 6 number 23 dr oz diet | Dr Oz Diet > Dr Oz Website > Dr Oz Vegan Diet http://theemtspot.com/2010/02/08/mastering-the-head-to-toe-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-4174 Grand Rounds Volume 6 number 23 | Grand Rounds Volume 6 number 23 dr oz | Grand Rounds Volume 6 number 23 dr oz diet | Dr Oz Diet > Dr Oz Website > Dr Oz Vegan Diet Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:36:32 +0000 http://theemtspot.com/?p=2599#comment-4174 [...] The EMT Spot blog talks about Mastering the Head-To-Toe Assessment. [...] [...] The EMT Spot blog talks about Mastering the Head-To-Toe Assessment. [...]

]]> By: Julio http://theemtspot.com/2010/02/08/mastering-the-head-to-toe-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-4083 Julio Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:53:05 +0000 http://theemtspot.com/?p=2599#comment-4083 For the record, I did work somewhere where this wasn't the case--but that was because most patients didn't get any sort of hands-on assessment. If it wasn't an unconscious trauma patient, nobody really laid hands on. Need a pulse? That's what the pulse-ox is for. Here was my head-to-toe: "Where do you hurt, sir." Amazing I didn't bring in more dead bodies... or maybe I did. For the record, I did work somewhere where this wasn’t the case–but that was because most patients didn’t get any sort of hands-on assessment. If it wasn’t an unconscious trauma patient, nobody really laid hands on.

Need a pulse? That’s what the pulse-ox is for.

Here was my head-to-toe: “Where do you hurt, sir.”

Amazing I didn’t bring in more dead bodies… or maybe I did.

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]]> By: Steve Whitehead http://theemtspot.com/2010/02/08/mastering-the-head-to-toe-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-3175 Steve Whitehead Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:36:40 +0000 http://theemtspot.com/?p=2599#comment-3175 @Kevin I agree. When researches examined the difference between musical virtuosos and average musicians they found that the one key difference was their shear tolerance for repetition and practice. @Amy Agreed. @Kevin I agree. When researches examined the difference between musical virtuosos and average musicians they found that the one key difference was their shear tolerance for repetition and practice.

@Amy Agreed.

]]> By: Amy http://theemtspot.com/2010/02/08/mastering-the-head-to-toe-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-3159 Amy Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:17:01 +0000 http://theemtspot.com/?p=2599#comment-3159 It all comes down to communicating with your pt. If you are not prepared to do so, then maybe EMS isn't for you. Obviously you can't communicate with an unconscious pt. However, if you have been conversing with as many pts as possible while doing your quick head-to-toe exams, when you come to a pt who can't talk and tell you what hurts, you'll know what to do, what to look and feel for, how to feel for it, and you'll know when you see or feel something not right. If you don't communicate and take the opportunity to do H-T-T's, when you come to that unconscious trauma pt, you may miss something that could cost that pt their life. It all comes down to communicating with your pt. If you are not prepared to do so, then maybe EMS isn’t for you. Obviously you can’t communicate with an unconscious pt. However, if you have been conversing with as many pts as possible while doing your quick head-to-toe exams, when you come to a pt who can’t talk and tell you what hurts, you’ll know what to do, what to look and feel for, how to feel for it, and you’ll know when you see or feel something not right. If you don’t communicate and take the opportunity to do H-T-T’s, when you come to that unconscious trauma pt, you may miss something that could cost that pt their life.

]]> By: Kevin http://theemtspot.com/2010/02/08/mastering-the-head-to-toe-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-3142 Kevin Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:58:05 +0000 http://theemtspot.com/?p=2599#comment-3142 In my EMT class, we were taught that if you really want to learn something and learn it to the point that you have unconscious confidence, you need to practice it until you are sick of it and then do it 20 more times. Rapid physicals are "key", because you always want to err on the side of benefiting your patient.. There could always be something that you missed, and it doesn't help anyone when you miss something. In my EMT class, we were taught that if you really want to learn something and learn it to the point that you have unconscious confidence, you need to practice it until you are sick of it and then do it 20 more times. Rapid physicals are “key”, because you always want to err on the side of benefiting your patient.. There could always be something that you missed, and it doesn’t help anyone when you miss something.

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