First time presenter, long time reader. It won't be the most challenging of scenarios, but will hopefully bring up some interesting learning points. If you're BLS, play BLS. If you're ALS, play ALS.
I'm going to attempt to present this much akin to the wise folk over at Flightweb. If you haven't seen them, I recommend spending a few weeks going through their cases.
You're are working with a partner who matches your certification level in an ambulance full of whatever you need. It's a nice spring afternoon and you're dispatched to a 2 yom vomiting on a street in a neighborhood that's in "transition". You immediately recognize the name of the small dead end street and recall a homicide that occurred there not long ago. You and your partner back the truck down the street and are met by a 10 year old boy who points to the stairs and says without much emotion, "all the way up". You huff and puff your way to the 3rd floor apartment where a well dressed middle aged women points you into the bedroom and says that he's been sick all day. You arrive at the patient's side to find him: sitting on the edge of the made bed being dressed by a woman who reports that she's his mother. She's managing (quite well) 2 other children and getting your patient dressed. She states that he had a poor appetite all yesterday and started vomiting just before he went to bed.
Go.
I'm going to attempt to present this much akin to the wise folk over at Flightweb. If you haven't seen them, I recommend spending a few weeks going through their cases.
You're are working with a partner who matches your certification level in an ambulance full of whatever you need. It's a nice spring afternoon and you're dispatched to a 2 yom vomiting on a street in a neighborhood that's in "transition". You immediately recognize the name of the small dead end street and recall a homicide that occurred there not long ago. You and your partner back the truck down the street and are met by a 10 year old boy who points to the stairs and says without much emotion, "all the way up". You huff and puff your way to the 3rd floor apartment where a well dressed middle aged women points you into the bedroom and says that he's been sick all day. You arrive at the patient's side to find him: sitting on the edge of the made bed being dressed by a woman who reports that she's his mother. She's managing (quite well) 2 other children and getting your patient dressed. She states that he had a poor appetite all yesterday and started vomiting just before he went to bed.
Go.
He has a short cropped hair cut and there is no obvious trauma. Pupils = and reactive to light at 2-3mms no jaundice. There are moist mucus membranes and his teeth are clean. No obvious odor to his breath or person.