Prehospital management
How do we diagnose?
• How do we assess a patient?
-Consent?
-Primary survey-ABCDE negative or positive?
-Secondary survey – SOAP Why SOAP is important?
• Data gathering tools. SAMPLER, SOCRATES
– How effective are these tools? Does taking history only rule in/out a diagnosis?
• Consultation models and why they are useful?
• What are the tools with which we make decisions? How useful are these?
• Are there any limitation in diagnostic tools in pre-hospital setting?
Diagnosis and Management:
• What mechanisms or diagnostic tools do we have to help?
• What are our choices of treatment?
• Do they follow guidance, and is that local or national?
• What is the evidence base behind our choices?
• Referral of patients to an appropriate health care setting, medical practitioner or to other agencies.
