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Danger

- Check to see if there is any danger around (crime scene [someone with gun], syringes, fires, broken glass etc.)

Response

- Alert

- Verbal stimulus (do they respond when you ask them questions)

- Pain stimulus (do they respond when your pinch them, give sternum rub)

- Unresponsive (if no response to all of the above)

Airway

- Anything blocking it?

- Food, toys (children) etc.

Breathing

- Yes/No

- Is it adequate enough to sustain life? (3 breaths/min)

- Look, listen and feel

Circulation

- Do they have a pulse?

- Is it adequate enough to sustain life?

- Is it regular, irregular?

Disability

- In a trauma patient

- Is there any possible injury to brain/spinal cord to cause neurological problems?

- Palpate head, neck, spine, back looking for tenderness and deformities

- If there is deformities, need to support neck (with cervical collar) and be extremely careful with patient positioning

Exposure

- A full head to toe examination of patient to check for any other deformities/trauma

- Usually stripped of clothes

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Airways

Breathing

Circulation

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Danger, Response, Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability and Exposure.

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