Title: Demonstrate history taking.
Course: Emergency Medical Technician I (14055-I) > Section: Assessing the Patient

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?