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So I was working a part time EMT shift yesterday at a very large charity event, and one of the volunteers asked for help with Sx of lightheadedness and nausea. It had turned into a a warm day, so heat exhaustion was a possibility.
Further assessment -- she reported a fever for two days, a headache, a sore throat, and neck pain. I asked her to lean her head forward and tell me how that felt, and she replied that it hurt a lot when she did that. Crap.
So should I have asked her to put an N95 mask from my EMT jump kit on at that point? I reported the Sx to my medic supervisor and our RN supervisor, but the RN was pretty relaxed about our BSI response to this Pt. Did he see something that I didn't see?
http://www.cdc.gov/meningitis/
Further assessment -- she reported a fever for two days, a headache, a sore throat, and neck pain. I asked her to lean her head forward and tell me how that felt, and she replied that it hurt a lot when she did that. Crap.
So should I have asked her to put an N95 mask from my EMT jump kit on at that point? I reported the Sx to my medic supervisor and our RN supervisor, but the RN was pretty relaxed about our BSI response to this Pt. Did he see something that I didn't see?
http://www.cdc.gov/meningitis/
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