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On one page of my book, it says:
"Ironically, with critical patients you usually will not have time to perform this [Detailed physical exam] thin depth exam because you will be preoccupied with performing ongoing assessments and providing emergency care. So you will seldom, if ever perform a complete exam in the field."
Yet a few pages over it says this:
"Every trauma patient, regardless of the mechanism of injury should receive a full detailed physical exam."
So, which is right? I have my Intermediate skills test tomorrow, and the Trauma assessment is always hard for me...Its like it just does not click for me...I much prefer medical.
Help?
"Ironically, with critical patients you usually will not have time to perform this [Detailed physical exam] thin depth exam because you will be preoccupied with performing ongoing assessments and providing emergency care. So you will seldom, if ever perform a complete exam in the field."
Yet a few pages over it says this:
"Every trauma patient, regardless of the mechanism of injury should receive a full detailed physical exam."
So, which is right? I have my Intermediate skills test tomorrow, and the Trauma assessment is always hard for me...Its like it just does not click for me...I much prefer medical.
Help?