10 Things You Should Know About Medical Emergencies
By Limmer Education
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In EMT class, many students don’t realize there’s a significant difference between the medical patient and the trauma patient. The difference begins at assessment and continues through care. The medical patient’s assessment is focused more on history. And in contrast to many traumatic conditions for which surgery is the main treatment, there are a lot of things EMS providers can do to assess and treat the medical patient effectively in the prehospital setting.
- As with trauma,...