| Admissions | Ambassadors | Accreditation | A to Z Degree Fields | Books | Catalog | Colleges | Contact Us | Continents/States | Construction | Contracts | Distance Education | Emergency | Emergency Medicine | Examinations | English Editing Service | Forms | Faculty | Governor | Grants | Hostels | Honorary Doctorate degree | Human Services | Human Resources | Internet | Investment | Instructors | Internship | Login | Lecture | Librarians | Languages | Manufacturing | Membership | Observers | Public Health | Publication | Professional Examinations | Programs | Professions | Progress Report | Recommendations | Ration food and supplies | Research Grants | Researchers | Students login | School | Search | Software | Seminar | Study Center/Centre | Sponsorship | Tutoring | Thesis | Universities | Work counseling |
|
How should you evaluate a person in a medical emergency? How should you evaluate a person reported as a medical emergency? |
|
Specific questions include: 1. What happened? (What has happened?) 2. What caused this to happen? When exactly did the incident happen? 3. What was the exact day, date, and time the incident happened? Who was the first person to witness or report the incident? 4. Can you tell us what happened? 5. When did it happen? 6. Where did it happen? 7. Who was harmed? 8. How many people were harmed? 9. Are those that were harmed getting help? 10. How certain are you about this information? 11. How are those who were harmed getting help? 12. Is the situation under control? 13. How certain are you that the situation is under control? 14. Is there any immediate danger? 15. What is being done in response to what happened? 16. Who is in charge? 17. What can we expect next? 18. What are you advising people to do? 19. How long will it be before the situation returns to normal? 20. What help has been requested or offered from others? 21. What responses have you received? 22. Can you be specific about the types of harm that occurred? 23. What are the names of those that were harmed? 24. Can we talk to them? 25. How much damage occurred? 26. What other damage may have occurred? 27. How certain are you about damages? 28. How much damage do you expect? 29. What are you doing now? 30. Who else is involved in the response? 31. Why did this happen? 32. What was the cause? 33. Did you have any forewarning that this might happen? 34. Why wasn’t this prevented from happening? 35. What else can go wrong? 36. If you are not sure of the cause, what is your best guess? 37. Who caused this to happen? 38. Who is to blame? 39. Could this have been avoided? 40. Do you think those involved handled the situation well enough? 41. When did your response to this begin? 42. When were you notified that something had happened? 43. Who is conducting the investigation? 44. What are you going to do after the investigation? 45. What have you found out so far? 46. Why was more not done to prevent this from happening? 47. What is your personal opinion? 48. What are you telling your own family? 49. Are all those involved in _________? 50. Are people over reacting? 51. Which laws are applicable? 52. Has anyone broken the law? 53. How certain are you about whether laws have been broken? 54. Has anyone made mistakes? 55. How certain are you that mistakes have not been made? 56. Have you told us everything you know? 57. What are you not telling us? 58. What effects will this have on the people involved? 59. What precautionary measures were taken? 60. Do you accept responsibility for what happened? 61. Has this ever happened before? 62. Can this happen elsewhere? 63. What is the worst case scenario? 64. What lessons were learned? 65. Were those lessons implemented? 66. What can be done to prevent this from happening again? 67. What would you like to say to those that have been harmed and to their families? 68. Is there any continuing the danger? 69. Are people out of danger? Are people safe? 70. Will there be inconvenience to employees or to the public? 71. How much will all this ________? 72. Are you able and willing to _______? 73. Who else will _______? 74. When will we find out more? 75. What steps need to be taken to avoid a similar event? 76. Have these steps already been taken? If not, why not? 77. What does this all mean? How have you handled previous situations? What has worked for you? Have you talked to anyone else about what has happened? What are you thinking about most now? What does the survivor need during the Acute Stage? |