everyone seems to enjoy these "games". once again it is a no blame no shame game.
you have been on the holiday of your life camping out on a deserted remote national park. you have a mobile phone but there is no mobile phone reception in this area. you are 2 hours walk from the nearest help when you come across a camp site. there is a cold camp fire with a pot of something slowly congealing. a small tent and a person lying on their side on the ground.
for this scenario you will have to use all eight senses. the first five - sight, hearing, touch smell and taste as well as your sixth sense, common sense and a sense of dread/sense of humour whichever is more applicable.
i was going to give you the next part of this scenario the other night but after reading the replies i laughed too hard to type!!!
what are we exploring here? well apart from remote area parks i want to explore assessment of the unconscious patient just to see how far we can go.
you have checked around and there is no visible danger. the body on teh ground is a male looking a little disheveled but not enough to be classified as a "feral". he is in the lateral position and so is naturally protecting his own airway. however he has drool from his mouth and the tonguw is slighlty protuding causing a slight snoring sound. you notice an empty wine cask( oh darn about now i coulfd do with a drink. two empty bottles of "methylated spirits" and a spirit lamp. it was quite cold overnight.
assume that we have taken care of his abc's and that they will not be a problem. what we want to explore are teh causes for loss of conscuousness and how we would assess the patient for possible signs, symptoms and clues.
p.s. i didn't even think of bears because our bears mostly live in trees eating gum leaves - the only threat a koala usually presents is if it falls out of the tree!!
In Australia it is notorious as a drink for the homeless and terminal alcoholics "metho drinkers". Methylated spirits is not easily detected on the breath.
gwenith, BSN, RN
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i was going to give you the next part of this scenario the other night but after reading the replies i laughed too hard to type!!!
what are we exploring here? well apart from remote area parks i want to explore assessment of the unconscious patient just to see how far we can go.
you have checked around and there is no visible danger. the body on teh ground is a male looking a little disheveled but not enough to be classified as a "feral". he is in the lateral position and so is naturally protecting his own airway. however he has drool from his mouth and the tonguw is slighlty protuding causing a slight snoring sound. you notice an empty wine cask( oh darn about now i coulfd do with a drink. two empty bottles of "methylated spirits" and a spirit lamp. it was quite cold overnight.
assume that we have taken care of his abc's and that they will not be a problem. what we want to explore are teh causes for loss of conscuousness and how we would assess the patient for possible signs, symptoms and clues.
p.s. i didn't even think of bears because our bears mostly live in trees eating gum leaves - the only threat a koala usually presents is if it falls out of the tree!!