Demonstrate history taking.

Demonstration should include

• investigating the chief complaint
• assessing the mechanism of injury or nature of illness
• soliciting and recording a patient’s medical history
• identifying associated signs or symptoms
• identifying and including pertinent negatives in the history
• age-related variations for pediatric or geriatric patients.

Process/Skill Questions:

• How does mechanism of injury or nature of illness change the questions included when an EMT is investigating the chief complaint?
• What is a pertinent negative, and why is it important to include in a patient history?
• How does the patient’s chief complaint (medical or trauma) change when the patient history is performed within the assessment sequence?