EMT class scenario ideas!

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OK, so I have to act out a scenario with a class partner for tomorrow for my EMT course. My current scenario is a cook getting an oil burn and falling on a knife but I figured I would ask what scenario you guys have in mind.

Yes, it is a bit last minute but I have time! :)
 
Trauma preferred, I think. Here is a sample of what we did today.

-Joe Dirt cutting off his hand with a crosscut sawblade
-Skater chick falling off skateboard and breaking her arm
-Construction worker falling 3 stories onto rebar with a pneumothorax, broken femur, etc. (yeah, I don't know about survival on that one)
-Childbirth with meconium staining (that was a funny one) (sp?)
-Bar fight ending up with a stabbing
-Unrestrained car collision from playing chicken with a stop sign.
 
If you really wanna be mean make it trauma caused by an underlying issue, but make the trauma real nasty and distracting. ;)
 
I had a guy smack a tree the other day. Turned out he hit the tree because he passed out because his BGL was LO thats all the glucometer would read so on ours <20.

Another one thats pretty standard is the MI that causes someone to crash a car, fall off a roof, something of those sorts.
 
tonic clonic off of the roof and foot first into a stump grinder...ouch

:sad:
 
I like the one where the guy comes in from jogging and collapses just inside the front door. Presents initially as a possible cardiac event. When a complete assessment is done the students (if they do it right) find a small wound in the axillary area that turns out to be a GSW.
 
bigbaldguy said:
I like the one where the guy comes in from jogging and collapses just inside the front door. Presents initially as a possible cardiac event. When a complete assessment is done the students (if they do it right) find a small wound in the axillary area that turns out to be a GSW.
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I love it. Sneaky and it weaves in my.love for high-speed projectiles. That's what I will do!
 
Tonic clonic off the roof wouldn't be a fun call to run then into a stump grinder is just adding insult to injury.
 
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pullnshoot25 said:
I love it. Sneaky and it weaves in my.love for high-speed projectiles. That's what I will do!
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Put a little red sticker or piece of tape under their arm with gunshot wound written on it :)
 
I used to love throwing "trick" scenarios at my study group when I used to drill them- i.e. scenarios that unless they ask the right questions, they'll take the wrong course...

i.e. the respiratory distress patient who has some obscure allergy to a food. If you forget to ask about last oral intake, you'd miss that he ate something triggering an allergic reaction

The cardiac patient who casually forgets to tell you he uses viagra, unless you asked specifically, etc. etc.

Sometimes keeping it simple can catch people off guard.
 
But if every one else is throwing out zebra scenarios, sometimes it is better to go with a simple, obvious one to see if they overthink it.

Another one I used was a MVA, pt was CAOx4 with neck pain. Pt has head leaning toward shoulder, and when they try to place in nuetral position for C-collar, pain becomes stabbing and pt develops tingling and numbness in extremities. Then you get to watch how they maintain cspine without a c-collar.
 
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Amycus said:
The cardiac patient who casually forgets to tell you he uses viagra, unless you asked specifically, etc. etc.

Sometimes keeping it simple can catch people off guard.
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Want to catch people? What about the cardiac patient on revatio? Of course this is where getting use to using the generic name is important instead of the brand name. For example, use naloxone instead of narcan. Hint: Revatio is not prescribed for impotence.
 
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FF I like your style!

blanket roll and lots and lots of tape to secure it in the position you have it in.
 
NVRob said:
FF I like your style!

blanket roll and lots and lots of tape to secure it in the position you have it in.
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By "blanket roll" do u mean folding up a long piece of cloth and winding it around the patient's neck?
 
NVRob said:
Tonic clonic off the roof wouldn't be a fun call to run then into a stump grinder is just adding insult to injury.
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a person on the ground could turn it off fairly quickly and then they could call him stumpy :ph34r:
 
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