Acronyms

Acronyms

• BSI

  • Body

  • Substance

  • Isolation

• PPE

  • Personal

  • Protective

  • Equipment

• PENMANN

  • Personal/Partner/Peeper Safety

  • Environmental Hazards

  • Number of victims/patients

  • Mechanism of Injury (MOI) or nature of illness (NOI)

  • Additional resources / ALS

  • Need for extrication

  • Need for c-spine

• AVPU

  • Alert

    • The patient is awake

  • Verbal Response to verbal stimuli

  • Painful Responsive to painful stimuli

  • Unresponsive

• ABC

  • Airway

    • Open, clear, and maintainable

  • Breathing

    • Rate, depth, and quality

  • Circulation

    • Capillary refill, obvious bleeding, pulse, skin signs (COPS)

• PPPT

  • Person - what is your name?

  • Place - Do you know where you are right now?

  • Purpose (event) - what were you doing? Or, why we called here today?

  • time - DO you know approximately what time it is? What day of the week or what month

• OPQRST

  • Onset - sudden or gradual

  • Provokes/Palliates - does anything make it  better or worse?

  • Quality - can you describe the pain/discomfort? Heaviness, sharp, dull achy, stabbing, burning, tearing

  • region/radiation - where is the pain located and does it travel anywhere?

  • Severity - on scale 0-10, 10 being the worst pain in your life, what is it?

  • Time -how long ago did the pain/ discomfort start

• Sample 

  • Signs and symptoms - Any other complaints associated with C/C

  • Allergies - Do you have any allergies? Medications, insects, latex, food, etc

  • Medications - Are you currently prescribed any medications? Are you taking them as directed? When was the last time you took them?

  • Past pertinent medical history - are you seeing a doctor for any medical problems?

  • Last oral intake - when was the last you ate or drank anything?

  • Events leading up - what were you doing prior to symptoms starting?

• IPA

  • Inspect

  • Palpate

  • Ausculate

• DCAPBTLS

  • Deformities

    • Malformations or distortions of the body

  • Contusions

    • Injury to tissues with skin discoloration and without breakage of the skin, also called a bruise

  • Abrasions

    • Scrape caused by rubbing on a surface

  • Punctures or penetrations

    • Wound with an opening to the internal cavity usually by a sharp or fastmoving object

  • Burn

    • Burns are injuries to tissues caused by heat, friction, electricity, radiation, chemicals

  • Tenderness

    • Tender or sore to the touch

  • Lacerations

    • Torn or jagged wound

  • Swelling

    • Sign of inflammation can be blood or fluid leaving the capillary vessels entering the tissue

• TIC

  • Tenderness

    • Pain on palpation

  • Instability

    • Excess movement on palpation

  • Creptius

    • Crackling or grating sound caused by bones rubbing against each other

• PIG

  • P

    • Priapism

  • I

    • Incontinence

  • G

    • Genital bleeding

• DRGERM

  • Distension

    • Seen or felt on palpation

  • Rigidity

    • Hardness felt on palpation

  • Guarding

    • Muscle contraction on palpation in response to pain

  • Evisceration

    • Abdominal organs protruding through the abdominal wall

  • Rebounding tenderness

    • Pain on release of palpation

  • Pulsating masses

    • Pulsates with heartbeat, felt on palpation, or sometimes seen

• PMSC

  • Pulse

  • Motor

  • Sensory

  • Capillary refill

• AMA

  • Against 

  • Medical

  • Advice