Essay About Trauma Patients And Serious-Time

Emt – Trauma Patients
Essay title: Emt – Trauma Patients
Trauma patients
I am currently taking a EMT course through Copper Mountain College. We have had to study
trauma and medical cases. I would like to share with you in detail some of the cases that we have
studied first ill introduce you to some of the assessments that have to be done before we begin.
For a trauma patients especially one whose injuries are serious-time must not be wasted at the
scene. This patient needs to get to a hospital as quickly as possible. On the other hand, enough
time must be spent at the scene to assess the patient adequately and give proper emergency care.
A trauma case can range anywhere from a broken bone to death. Traumatic injuries are the result
of an outside forces acting on the body. Falls, vehicle collisions, and violence are just a few causes
of trauma. It all depends on the mechanism of injury, meaning what caused the accident.
My first trauma patient is a male patient, he has stopped at an ATM machine near his house.
Rushing to make a committee meting, he didnt notice the man watching him from a short distance
away. As soon as he gets his cash, the man dashes in and attempts to grab it. The man who well
call Rick, briefly resist and receives a stab wound in the abdomen.
On arrival of the emt they see a man lying on the ground in a pool of blood near his abdomen
and back. with a few of his guts purtruding from his abdomen this looks serious. Blood is
everywhere and his skin looks as if it had been stretched and pulled till it tore. The skin is blue and
red, very swollen and bruised. Rick is screaming for help. As best as possible the emt bandages the
wound and loads him up for transport. On the way to the hospital Rick stops breathing. Turning
blue and white at the mouth the emt tries CPR. After regaining his breathing they continue to the
hospital. A week later Rick recovers fully.
The next type of patients are medical patients. An example of this would be a case like, one
afternoon, an elderly man whose stomach hurts, calls 911. There is no apparent mechanism of
injury. This man just appears ill so as far as we can tell he could just have the flu. We as emts
would assess him to find out more information the proceed to the hospital.
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