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SOAP Exercise

Pediatric febrile seizure

How this exercise works

Read each report sentence, then drag it into Subjective (what the patient says), Objective (what you measure or observe), Assessment (your clinical impression), or Plan (treatments and transport). Drop irrelevant noise into the trash. Submit when every sentence is placed.

Fundamental concept

How structured Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan charting supports continuity of care and medicolegal accountability.

Read: SOAP Documentation for EMS Reports →

Scenario

2-year-old postictal after witnessed generalized seizure, fever noted by parents.

Seizure activity stopped before EMS arrival. No trauma history.

Report statements

Drag each sentence into the correct SOAP section, or into the trash if it does not belong in the chart.

Simple febrile seizure, postictal state.
Protect airway, cooling measures, transport for evaluation.
Parents report 2-minute generalized tonic-clonic activity.
Temp 39.2°C, pulse 132, RR 28, SpO₂ 97%.
Stuffed animal was on the couch nearby.
Postictal, arousable to painful stimulus, no focal deficits.
Child was watching cartoons before the event.
Child had fever to 39.5°C prior to seizure.

Trash (not charted)

0

Drop useless or irrelevant statements here

S, Subjective

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Drop statements here

O, Objective

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Drop statements here

A, Assessment

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Drop statements here

P, Plan

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Drop statements here