I am going to also post this in the EMS forum.
I was on an EMS call today and our patient spoke no English at all. If he hadn't called his brother on his cell phone to interpret and come to the scene we would have been delayed while waiting for a police interpretter to arrive on scene. To say the least it was frustrating to try and play charades with him to figure out the extent of his injuries.
My Officer and myself began discussing what we could do to remedy this situation. Well, we tossed around the ideas of having either a cheat sheet with some basic qurstions in Spanish for the patient to read and try to answer from. The other was a question sheet in Spanish with a drawing that could be used to point where the injuries were. With the questions I suppose it wwould be most appropriate for the answers to written on the sheet in a multiple choice type of format. I suppose either one of these ideas could work for almost any language.
Anyways we thought that maybe someone on here already ahd something in place that worked for them and would be willing to share.
Personally I am thinking of taking some Spanish classes as I see this situation occurring more often in the future.
Thanks for any help you may offer.
FyredUp
I was on an EMS call today and our patient spoke no English at all. If he hadn't called his brother on his cell phone to interpret and come to the scene we would have been delayed while waiting for a police interpretter to arrive on scene. To say the least it was frustrating to try and play charades with him to figure out the extent of his injuries.
My Officer and myself began discussing what we could do to remedy this situation. Well, we tossed around the ideas of having either a cheat sheet with some basic qurstions in Spanish for the patient to read and try to answer from. The other was a question sheet in Spanish with a drawing that could be used to point where the injuries were. With the questions I suppose it wwould be most appropriate for the answers to written on the sheet in a multiple choice type of format. I suppose either one of these ideas could work for almost any language.
Anyways we thought that maybe someone on here already ahd something in place that worked for them and would be willing to share.
Personally I am thinking of taking some Spanish classes as I see this situation occurring more often in the future.
Thanks for any help you may offer.
FyredUp
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