Describe patient injuries

1. (If you have not done so already) Add a new incident, or open an existing incident, as described in Add or edit an incident.

   By default, the Response tab and Incident Information sub-tab are selected.

2. Click the Situation tab, and then click the Injury sub-tab.

   Fields for gathering information related to a patient's injury appear on the left side of the interface.

   

   Note: Through the FH Medic administration site, the FH Medic application can be highly configured to display or hide individual fields, require or not-require fields, and even change field labels. As a result, different fields may appear for you than what is shown in the screen shot.

   Information on using the FH Medic administration site to control the fields in the FH Medic application is available in the FH Medic Administrator's Guide .

3. Under Injury, enter data as described in Understand the interface and data entry in it.

   Field	Information needed
   MOI	The circumstance in which an injury occurs. If you click MVC (motor vehicle crash), a new set of fields appear on the right side of the interface, which are specific to this type of incident. Information on specifying data for these fields is available in Add motor vehicle crash (MVC) details. If you click Fall, Burns, Stabbing, or Gunshot, a dialog box appears showing a human body, and you need to specify more details about the injury. Depending on the MOI you clicked, information on specifying these details is available in Add fall or burn injury details, and in Add stabbing or gunshot injury details.
   Type of Activity	A description of the activity the patient was involved in when the injury occurred.
   Incident Location	A description of where the patient was when the injury was sustained.
   Incident Type	An indication of whether or not the injury was work-related.
   Intent of Injury	A description of the intent behind the injury (unintentional, assault, legal intervention, and so forth).
   Patient Exposure	A list of items the patient was exposed to as causing the injury, or as a result of the injury, such as blood, chemicals, disease, body fluids, and so forth.