Emergency Procedures Exam 1 Practice

The main idea is that on-scene decisions depend on patient stability: stable patients can be treated and monitored on scene, while unstable patients need rapid transport to definitive care. Stay & Play is used when the patient is stable enough to receive care on scene and remain under observation without delaying transport. Load & Go is used when the patient is unstable or deteriorating, requiring rapid transport so they can receive definitive treatment as soon as possible. Therefore, Stay & Play for stable and Load & Go for unstable is the correct pairing. It wouldn’t fit to use Stay & Play for an unstable patient, since delaying transport could worsen their condition; nor to apply Load & Go to all patients, since not every stable patient needs urgent transport. And treating them as identical ignores the essential difference in how emphasis is placed on on-scene care versus speed to definitive care.