Assessment
Patient Assessment & Clinical Decision Making
Psychiatric Emergency: Capacity and Safety · L1
How this exercise works
Branching scenario: each decision changes the patient's course. Choose assessments and interventions in logical order, primary survey first, then targeted secondary exam and treatment.
Fundamental concept
Integrating primary and secondary surveys with evolving scenarios to choose assessments and interventions in logical sequence.
Read: Paramedic Assessment & Clinical Decision Making →Scenario
Agitated male threatening self-harm with knife. Scene secured by police. Patient calm when you arrive, denies SI now, wants to stay home.
Work through each decision, the patient responds to your choices.