医学专业英语课件11
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• If the patient's condition is life-threatening or if the patient arrives by ambulance, this step may be completed later at the bedside.
Examination Room
She also gets a brief history of patients current medical complaints, past medical problems, medications and allergies.
Registration
• This step is necessary to develop a medical record so that patients medical history, lab tests, X-rays, etc., will all be located on one chart that can be referenced at any time.
• This does happen and is not uncommon, • The majority of cases seen in a typical
emergency department aren't quite this dramatic.
Triage
When you arrive at the ER, your first stop is triage. This is the place where each patient's condition is prioritized into three general categories:
Emergency Room Patients
• Confusion, altered level of consciousness, fainting • Suicidal or homicidal thoughts • Overdoses • Severe abdominal pain, persistent vomiting • Food poisoning • Blood when vomiting, coughing, urinating, or in bowel
• Immediately life threatening • Urgent, but not immediately life
threatening • Less urgent
Triage
The triage nurse records patients vital signs (temperature, pulse, respiratory rate and blood pressure).
movements • Severe allergic reactions from insect bites, foods or
medications • Complications from diseases, high fevers
Understanding the ER Maze
• The classic emergency room scene involves an ambulance screeching to a halt, a gurney hurtling through the hallway and some people frantically working to save a person's life with only seconds to spare.
Emergency Room
Yi Ping Zhao Department of Vascular Surgery
Ren Ji Hospital
How Emergency Rooms Work
You will learn about • the normal flow of traffic in an
• Patients are seen by an ER nurse who obtains more detailed information about patients.
• Once the nurse has finished her tasks, the next visitor is an ER physician. He gets a more detailed medical history about your present illness, past medical problems, family history, social history, and a complete review of all your body syห้องสมุดไป่ตู้tems. He then formulates a list of possible causes of your symptoms.
emergency room • the people involved • the special techniques used to
respond to life-or-death situations
Emergency Room Patients
• Car accidents • Sports injuries • Broken bones and cuts from accidents and falls • Burns • Uncontrolled bleeding • Heart attacks, chest pain • Difficulty breathing, asthma attacks, pneumonia • Strokes, loss of function and/or numbness in arms or legs • Loss of vision, hearing • Unconsciousness
Examination Room
She also gets a brief history of patients current medical complaints, past medical problems, medications and allergies.
Registration
• This step is necessary to develop a medical record so that patients medical history, lab tests, X-rays, etc., will all be located on one chart that can be referenced at any time.
• This does happen and is not uncommon, • The majority of cases seen in a typical
emergency department aren't quite this dramatic.
Triage
When you arrive at the ER, your first stop is triage. This is the place where each patient's condition is prioritized into three general categories:
Emergency Room Patients
• Confusion, altered level of consciousness, fainting • Suicidal or homicidal thoughts • Overdoses • Severe abdominal pain, persistent vomiting • Food poisoning • Blood when vomiting, coughing, urinating, or in bowel
• Immediately life threatening • Urgent, but not immediately life
threatening • Less urgent
Triage
The triage nurse records patients vital signs (temperature, pulse, respiratory rate and blood pressure).
movements • Severe allergic reactions from insect bites, foods or
medications • Complications from diseases, high fevers
Understanding the ER Maze
• The classic emergency room scene involves an ambulance screeching to a halt, a gurney hurtling through the hallway and some people frantically working to save a person's life with only seconds to spare.
Emergency Room
Yi Ping Zhao Department of Vascular Surgery
Ren Ji Hospital
How Emergency Rooms Work
You will learn about • the normal flow of traffic in an
• Patients are seen by an ER nurse who obtains more detailed information about patients.
• Once the nurse has finished her tasks, the next visitor is an ER physician. He gets a more detailed medical history about your present illness, past medical problems, family history, social history, and a complete review of all your body syห้องสมุดไป่ตู้tems. He then formulates a list of possible causes of your symptoms.
emergency room • the people involved • the special techniques used to
respond to life-or-death situations
Emergency Room Patients
• Car accidents • Sports injuries • Broken bones and cuts from accidents and falls • Burns • Uncontrolled bleeding • Heart attacks, chest pain • Difficulty breathing, asthma attacks, pneumonia • Strokes, loss of function and/or numbness in arms or legs • Loss of vision, hearing • Unconsciousness