BY TIM PERKINS
Have you ever thought about how many different factors come into play on every emergency medical service (EMS) call to which you respond? What about how these factors determine how you approach the patient, interact with the patient and bystanders, treatment, and transport-not to mention how any one of these factors may affect your safety and that of your crew? The possibilities are as varied as the calls to which EMS providers are dispatched daily.
All these factors can be considered "EMS clues," and using your skills as an EMS provider-or "EMS detective"-can help you to be cognizant of scene safety, scene assessment, interview of patient and bystanders, assessment, treatment, and transport.
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