You and your EMT partner are dispatched for an 87 year old f…
You and your EMT partner are dispatched for an 87 year old female who was weak. You have a 3 minute response. You arrive to find the patient leaning over in a recliner. Nursing staff reports that she has been acting strange for about 6 hours. Your patient is alert, speaks with slurred speech, and is not oriented. When you are preforming a Cincinnati Stoke Scale what 3 things are you looking for?
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You and your AEMT partner are dispatched for a 4 year old patient who is unconscious. You have a 7 minute response. You arrive to find the patient in his mother’s lap. The patient does not appear responsive, is cyanotic around the lips, and doesn’t respond to painful stimuli. The patient has a slow weak radial pulse. The patient has what appears to be bicycling with the right leg a repeated motion mimicking the motion of peddling a bicycle and has a deconjugate gaze to the right side. The patient’s mother reports that she hasn’t been able to wake him up for almost 15 minutes. What is your differential diagnosis?
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