1. Basic ADLS Principles for Completing the Red Survey
Assessment Skills
Basic ADLS Principles for
Completing the Red Survey

2. Scene Survey Patient Assessment Essential Skills
As Emergency Medical Providers,
we conduct our actions in the way
that we have been trained
Scene Survey
Patient Assessment
Essential Skills

3. It’s called
“Business as Usual”

4. Business as Usual Red Survey Primary Survey Exceeds # of Rescuers YesNo
Number of
Victims
Scene
Safe?
Incident
Command? No
Yes
Primary
Survey
Park and
Wait
Park and
Wait
More Rescuers
than Patients

5. When you have one victim, or enough rescuers to
take care of your victims,
then use usual
patient assessment skills

6. Primary Survey
Secondary Survey
Third Survey

7. Primary Survey
The first look for
threats to life

8. Primary Survey LOC / Airway / Cspine Respiratory Rate and Labor
Circulation: Pulses (RQ/NW)
Skin CMT/CRT
Neck: Appearance / JVD /Trachea
Chest: CLAPPD / BS / HT
Quick Survey of Abd, Pelvis
LE, UE, and Back

9. 1 2 3 4 5

10. Secondary Survey A Meticulous Head to Toe Assessment when Time Permits
and when
Further Diagnosis
is required

11. …and any other pertinent from the initial assessment
Third Survey
LOC
Airway
Breathing
Circulation
…and any other pertinent
positive or negative
from the initial assessment

12. Perform Every Five Minutes
Third Survey
Perform Every Five Minutes
on a sick patient

14. Possibly dangerous scene
But WHAT do we do
When we have a
Possibly dangerous scene
And a BUNCH of sick or
Injured people???

15. “Rapid Evaluation of Disaster”
Red Survey
“Rapid Evaluation of Disaster”
Incident Survey
Casualty Survey
Life-saving Skills
and Interventions

16. “Rapid Evaluation of Disaster”
Red Survey
“Rapid Evaluation of Disaster”
Incident Survey
ABCDE
Casualty Survey
Life-saving Skills
and Interventions

17. Summary Through the application of standard principles of
scene assessment,
patient surveys, and
lifesaving skills,
the ADLS Provider can maintain
organization and efficiency
in times of distress