4 Spotting a deteriorating patient and checking the level of response.

The first aid podcast with your paramedic host Tj. Tj has more than 20 years of frontline paramedic experience and in the podcast he shares valuable lessons answering the question – What is first aid? He doesn’t talk so much about what should be in a first aid kit, rather, what are the most important considerations when providing first aid? In later episodes, Tj introduces the concept of immediate Care paramedics who can provide more advanced help if needed!

In this episode about the first aid assessment template, some key take aways are:

• You can spot a deteriorating patient by assessing their level of responsiveness and whether they have deteriorating health.
• The AVPU first aid template helps in the management of the deteriorating patient.
• The DR ABC approach to assessing the deteriorating patient in first aid is really useful.
• The unresponsive patient is really poorly and needs immediate care.

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Thank you, and take care!