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Humanoid Health and First Aid, Wednesday, Period 1
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deaddadsclubThe students didn't find a classroom when they came into the Danger Shop today. Instead, they stepped right into a busy hospital emergency room. Cristina was there to greet them, wearing scrubs and a yellow trauma gown. She handed each student their own gown as they came in, along with a pair of gloves, and when everyone seemed to have arrived, she started class.
"Welcome to the Emergency Room," she said. "On Halloween." She looked over the chaos of doctors, nurses, and patients all rushing back and forth behind her and gave a little happy sigh. "There are certain times of year when being a surgeon gets extra exciting. Thanksgiving, Christmas — pretty much any major holiday. But on Halloween . . . that's when people get creative. Your job today is to triage, and if necessary, treat some patients. If you're not familiar with the term, 'triage' means to assess the condition of a patient and decide how urgently they need to be treated. It's one of the most important things an emergency responder does in a mass casualty situation, and it's what keeps an ER running smoothly." She turned back to the students. "Basically, if you're in the ER and no one's paying attention to you? That probably means you're going to be okay." She sighed and shrugged. "Or the staff at that ER is doing a really terrible job, but if you want to be optimistic, it means you're going to be okay.
"There are three things that are primarily used to assess a patient's condition for triage. They're known as the ABCs." Cristina grabbed a passing nurse, and made them hold still while she demonstrated how to perform a basic triage check-in. "Airway: make sure that the patient's mouth, nose, and throat are unobstructed. Breathing: check to make sure your patient can inhale and exhale without trouble. That includes checking to see that both their lungs are inflating properly. And finally, circulation: you want to make sure that any bleeding has been attended to, but also that there's nothing stopping bloodflow to any part of the patient's body." She waved the nurse off again. "Oh, and you should, you know, talk to the patient, if they're conscious. Ask what happened, what hurts, all that. But you definitely want the three Cs. We had a resident get fired once for getting distracted and forgetting to check a patient's airway properly. The patient went from conscious and not seeming in distress to dead due to carbon monoxide poisoning in, like, minutes. Do not skimp on your triage."
She led the students to a (slightly) quieter section of the ER. "Here are your patients. Each of you is going talk to and assess each patient, then tell me what order you think they should be seen to. And don't forget your bedside manner. That gets graded, too." She paused, looked at the students, then waved them towards the patients. "Get going! It's Halloween, there's no telling what's going to happen in here!"
[content note!: body dysmorphia and (somewhat cartoonish) self-harm in comments. Apologies for not putting the note up last night!]
"Welcome to the Emergency Room," she said. "On Halloween." She looked over the chaos of doctors, nurses, and patients all rushing back and forth behind her and gave a little happy sigh. "There are certain times of year when being a surgeon gets extra exciting. Thanksgiving, Christmas — pretty much any major holiday. But on Halloween . . . that's when people get creative. Your job today is to triage, and if necessary, treat some patients. If you're not familiar with the term, 'triage' means to assess the condition of a patient and decide how urgently they need to be treated. It's one of the most important things an emergency responder does in a mass casualty situation, and it's what keeps an ER running smoothly." She turned back to the students. "Basically, if you're in the ER and no one's paying attention to you? That probably means you're going to be okay." She sighed and shrugged. "Or the staff at that ER is doing a really terrible job, but if you want to be optimistic, it means you're going to be okay.
"There are three things that are primarily used to assess a patient's condition for triage. They're known as the ABCs." Cristina grabbed a passing nurse, and made them hold still while she demonstrated how to perform a basic triage check-in. "Airway: make sure that the patient's mouth, nose, and throat are unobstructed. Breathing: check to make sure your patient can inhale and exhale without trouble. That includes checking to see that both their lungs are inflating properly. And finally, circulation: you want to make sure that any bleeding has been attended to, but also that there's nothing stopping bloodflow to any part of the patient's body." She waved the nurse off again. "Oh, and you should, you know, talk to the patient, if they're conscious. Ask what happened, what hurts, all that. But you definitely want the three Cs. We had a resident get fired once for getting distracted and forgetting to check a patient's airway properly. The patient went from conscious and not seeming in distress to dead due to carbon monoxide poisoning in, like, minutes. Do not skimp on your triage."
She led the students to a (slightly) quieter section of the ER. "Here are your patients. Each of you is going talk to and assess each patient, then tell me what order you think they should be seen to. And don't forget your bedside manner. That gets graded, too." She paused, looked at the students, then waved them towards the patients. "Get going! It's Halloween, there's no telling what's going to happen in here!"
[content note!: body dysmorphia and (somewhat cartoonish) self-harm in comments. Apologies for not putting the note up last night!]