Practice Quiz

NREMT Paramedic

Category - Trauma

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All of the following except one are clues you might use to conduct your primary assessment. Which of the following observations is not directly relevant to your primary assessment?
  1. As you approach your patient opens their eyes and looks at you, but makes no utterance or noise.
  2. Your patient’s skin has a dusky appearance.
  3. Your patient has a bandaged left lower extremity, not currently bleeding.
  4. Your patient exclaims as you enter that they are so glad you’ve arrived, in full, long sentences.
Explanation
Answer: C - Your patient’s prior, bandaged injury is something you’ll want to investigate in the secondary physical exam, but does not in and of itself give you useful information about their level of responsiveness, airway, breathing, or circulation.
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