Screening Activity In an urgent care setting, two or more patients may present at the same time with emergency symptoms.

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Screening Activity In an urgent care setting, two or more patients may present at the same time with emergency symptoms. The order in which emergency patients will receive care depends on the health care professionals' abilities to screen patients' symptoms to determine who needs care most urgently. The following five patients present simultane- ously on New Year's Eve at Inner City Urgent Care. Clinic manager Lynn Garrett, CMA (AAMA), is working the evening shift with Dr. Mark Woo. In what order will Lynn and Dr. Woo prioritize treatment? Number the patients 1 (most urgent) through 5 to correspond to the urgency of their conditions. Urgency Patient Patient A presents with a gunshot wound to the leg that is bleeding severely. The patient is conscious but his pupils are dilated and he is unable to answer simple questions put to him by Lynn and Dr. Woo. He cradles his right arm and will not let anyone touch it, although there is no immediate evidence of an open wound to the arm. Patient B, an elderly man, is brought in by his grandson. He describes debilitating chest pains, difficulty breath- ing, and nausea after eating a large family dinner. The patient's medical record indicates that he has a hiatal hernia, intervertebral disc disease, high blood pressure, and mild angina. The man is walking and speaking with moderate distress and is extremely anxious. © 2018 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in par
Patient C, a young woman, presents with her boy- friend. She appears to have multiple abrasions on her right palm and knee, with damage to the right knee and ankle joints sustained after a fall while on in-line skates. Both joints are swollen and painful. Patient D, a man in his mid-30s, presents with the cot- ton tip of a swab stuck in his ear canal. Although the man feels a dull consistent pain in the ear, he says he has no trouble hearing. The outside of the ear appears normal, there is no bleeding evident, and the man appears annoyed but not distressed. Patient E, a young woman, presents with a group of friends, all college students, with an eye injury sus- tained from a champagne cork. The cork, which had a metal covering over its tip, hit the patient's eye. The young woman's eye is red and tearing and she is experiencing severe pain in the eye.