10 Tips to Improve Your Differential Diagnostic Skills
By Limmer Education
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Differential diagnosis is a hallmark skill for EMTs, AEMTs and paramedics. EMS has progressed beyond the “EMS doesn’t diagnose” days to become a critical thinking-oriented practice in which differential diagnosis is necessary.
There’s a tenet stating that 90% of emergency medicine happens in the cognitive domain—the realm of thought. Although EMS providers’ practice is guided by protocols, we often forget that a presumptive diagnosis of some sort is required before we can choose...