Patient assessment consists of four essential components. These components in order from beginning to end of the call would be:
A) reassessment, secondary assessment, primary assessment, and scene size-up.
B) primary assessment, secondary assessment, scene size-up, and reassessment.
C) scene size-up, secondary assessment, primary assessment, and reassessment.
D) scene size-up, primary assessment, secondary assessment, and reassessment.
D
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A) The slope and the x-intercept of the regression line are affected. B) The slope of the regression line differs from the true value. C) The x-intercept of the regression line becomes equal to the y-intercept. D) The y-intercept of the regression line differs from the true value.
You have been called to a public bus station for a behavioral emergency. On scene, you find a disheveled male in his forties sitting up against a wall. He is confused and incontinent. Bystanders state that he was just sitting on a bench watching people walk by, when suddenly he got up and began to stumble around, shouting obscenities, and then fell to the ground shaking. From this description, the EMT should be suspicious of which condition?
A) Generalized seizure B) Alcohol intoxication C) Absence seizure D) Syncopal episode