Patient History
Patient History For First Aid and First Responders ภาษาไทย မြန်မာဘာသာစကားအတွက် ဤနေရာကိုနှိပ်ပါ။ An ancient story tells about 6 blind men feeling different parts of an elephant and arguing with each other about what it is. We need to avoid drawing our conclusions from just a single aspect of patient assessment, instead we need to put all the parts of patient assessment together to try understanding the whole patient. Similar to if the blind men put all their pieces of information together, they would have understood the elephant. The beginning details of assessing and treating a patient start with sizing up the scene, checking for life threatening issues, and determining what their chief complaint or primary issue is. From this point we gather more details about the patient’s chief complaint with questions called a patient history. Think of this as adding details to our mental picture of the patient. Most medical personnel try to remember these questions with the English a...