SD - ED - Intro to Emergency Med | Unit Review 2024
1. Which of the following scenarios would be an emergency severity index 1?: Cardiac Arrest
2. Which of the following would you need to have in order to be discharged from the ED safetly
home?
Safe home environment
Scheduled follow up
Resources and support Stable
vitals
All of the above: All of the above
3. What does the E in ABCDE mean?: EXPOSE
4. For an unstable patient in a MVA with a complex trauma, which of the following should you
do first?: O2, monitor, IV access
5. What are the ABCDEs of Emergency Room Care?: Airway Breathing
Circulation
Disability (neurologic fxn - AVPU, Glasglow) Expose
6. Glasglow Coma Scale (GCS): eye opening, verbal response, motor response
7. What is ESI: The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a five-level emergency department
(ED) triage algorithm that provides clinically relevant stratification of patients into five
groups from 1 (most urgent) to 5 (least urgent) on the basis of acuity and resource needs.
8. ESI level 1: requires immediate life saving intervention
9. ESI level 2: patient is in a high risk situation, is disoriented, in severe pain, or vitals are in
danger zone
10.ESI level 3: multiple resources are required to stabilize the patient, but vitals are not in
danger zone
11.ESI level 4: one resource is required to stabilize the patient
-delayed treatment okay
12.ESI level 5: no resources needed- patient is stable
13.ESI level 5 examples: rash
prescription refill
cold
flu
stable VS
'normal' Hx
14.What is the law that requires everyone who comes to the hospital to be seen?: EMTALA
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1. Which of the following scenarios would be an emergency severity index 1?: Cardiac Arrest
2. Which of the following would you need to have in order to be discharged from the ED safetly
home?
Safe home environment
Scheduled follow up
Resources and support Stable
vitals
All of the above: All of the above
3. What does the E in ABCDE mean?: EXPOSE
4. For an unstable patient in a MVA with a complex trauma, which of the following should you
do first?: O2, monitor, IV access
5. What are the ABCDEs of Emergency Room Care?: Airway Breathing
Circulation
Disability (neurologic fxn - AVPU, Glasglow) Expose
6. Glasglow Coma Scale (GCS): eye opening, verbal response, motor response
7. What is ESI: The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a five-level emergency department
(ED) triage algorithm that provides clinically relevant stratification of patients into five
groups from 1 (most urgent) to 5 (least urgent) on the basis of acuity and resource needs.
8. ESI level 1: requires immediate life saving intervention
9. ESI level 2: patient is in a high risk situation, is disoriented, in severe pain, or vitals are in
danger zone
10.ESI level 3: multiple resources are required to stabilize the patient, but vitals are not in
danger zone
11.ESI level 4: one resource is required to stabilize the patient
-delayed treatment okay
12.ESI level 5: no resources needed- patient is stable
13.ESI level 5 examples: rash
prescription refill
cold
flu
stable VS
'normal' Hx
14.What is the law that requires everyone who comes to the hospital to be seen?: EMTALA
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