EMT-Basic/Medical/Diabetes AMS
Lesson 4.4: Diabetes/Altered Mental Status
Objectives
editBy the end of this lesson, the EMT-Basic should be able to:
- Identify the patient taking diabetic medications with altered mental status and the implications of a diabetes history.
- State the steps in the emergency medical care of the patient taking diabetic medicine with an altered mental status and a history of diabetes.
- Establish the relationship between airway management and the patient with altered mental status.
- State the generic and trade names, medication forms, action, and contraindications for oral glucose.
- Evaluate the need for medical direction in the emergency medical care of the diabetic patient.
- Explain the rationale for administering oral glucose.
- Demonstrate the steps in the emergency medical care of the patient taking diabetic medicine with an altered mental status and a history of diabetes.
- Demonstrate the steps in the administration of oral glucose.
- Demonstrate the assessment and documentation of patient response to oral glucose.
- Demonstrate how to complete a prehospital care report for patients with diabetic emergencies.