“Safety First” ... Table of Contents

Safety    Use your BSI - Biological Safety

F                F is for Fire - Scene Safety

I                 I is for Incident: MOI/NOI          

R                Determine the numbeR of patients

S                Send for help

T                Trauma to the C-spine?

G                General impression of the patient

E                Estimate LOAs

T                Threats to you or your patient?

1°A             1° Airway

1°B             1° Breathing

1°C             1° Circulation

1°D             1° Decision

2°A             2° Airway

2°B             2° Breathing

2°C             2° Circulation

2°D             2° Decision

This T stands for ‘Threats’, and it reminds you to pick your head up at this point and just make sure that there aren’t any obvious environmental threats to you or your patient that you might have missed, or that might have appeared while you were doing your quick assessments.

The sort of threats we worry about are things like: traffic, people, animals, structural damage … anything.

Basically, you are doing a quick scene survey again to make sure you’re not in danger.

After you’ve done that, you’re ready to move on to the ABC’s ...