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How do you do quick assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of the patient? What is the gender of the patient? How old is the patient? What seems to be the problem? How did it start? Can he talk? Can he do spontaneous eye opening? Can he respond to verbal questions accurately? Can the patient respond to painful stimulus? Can the patient move any of his/her limbs? Can he walk on his own? Is he in hospital or at home? Where is he now? Is he able to eat on his own? Can he pass urine, stools on his own? What are the vitals? Is it an emergency? What is the diagnosis? What is the treatment? You should be able to form a diagnosis based on response to these questions subject to further assessment. What are essential questions of a medical history? What questions should be asked after getting answers to essential questions of medical history? What specific questions should you ask after learning the essential part of medical history? Is it a medical emergency or medicolegal emergency? What type of medical emergency or medicolegal emergency is it? Do the symptoms, signs, statements, questions, issues, and histories fit in trauma, human pregnancy, cardiology, pulmonary, renal, gastroenteritis, neurology, ophthalmology, ear, nose & throat, pediatric, endocrinology, psychiatry, non traumatic orthopedic, or non traumatic surgical medical emergency? Is it a trauma, human pregnancy, cardiology, pulmonary, renal, gastroenterology, neurology, Ophthalmology, ear nose and throat, pediatric, Endocrinology, psychiatry, non-traumatic orthopedic, or non-traumatic surgical medical emergency? What is the diagnosis? What is the treatment? How could this be prevented? |
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Evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of an unconscious patient. How do you evaluate, diagnose, and treat an unconscious patient? When do you conclude the patient is in a coma or unconscious? What is a drug-induced coma? What are the indications and contraindications of a drug-induced coma? What are the causes of coma or unconsciousness? What is the difference between coma or unconsciousness and sleep? Did the patient receive any medication in the past 24 hours? What was the route of administration? What is the difference between coma and brain death? When do you declare a patient is dead? How often should revision of evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment be done in an intensive care unit setting? What can you do to protect yourself and others from incompetent medical doctors? What can I do to protect myself and others from incompetent medical doctors? Ask them as many questions as possible. If they can't answer, declare it publicly. You have the right to defend yourself. Can the patient do spontaneous eye opening? Is the patient capable of opening eyes to speech, to stimulus, to pain not applied to face, breast, genitals or not opening his/her eyes? Spontaneous eye opening � 4 points Eyes open to speech � 3 points Eyes open to stimulus, pain, not applied to face, breast, or genitals � 2 points No eye opening � 1 point Spontaneous eye opening: what is the mechanism involved? Eyes open to speech� what is the mechanism involved? Eyes open to stimulus, pain, not applied to face� what is the mechanism involved? No eye opening� what causes it? What are the causes? What are the causes of no eye opening? What is the mechanism involved? Can the patient respond to verbal questions accurately? Can he take oral medicines on his own? Does he move any extremity on instructions? What extremities can the patient move on instructions? What are the causes of no verbal response? What is the mechanism involved? What are the causes of no movement of extremities? What is the mechanism involved? What is the conclusion? Is the patient in a coma? Is the patient comatose? Where is the lesion? What is the diagnosis? How will you treat the patient? What should be the configuration of a ventilator? What is the prognosis? At this point, it is impossible to conclude exactly. Similar patients have bad prognosis. |