👤 By the CinnaEMS Content Team🕐 Updated 2026-09-24🏷️ Patient Treatment & Transport🔖 Free to read, print, and share
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Use this quick-reference guide to recognise, treat and hand over Treatment & Transport on the NREMT and on the call. Keep it handy during review and on exam day!
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📒 The 1-minute cheat sheet
📌 Ventilation
Chest rise = it worked
Rising abdomen = gastric insufflation
Escaping air = bad seal, go two-person
📌 Bleeding
Pressure first
Tourniquet when pressure fails or can't be held
Impaled object stays in
📌 Transport
Can't reach the bleed → minimal scene time
Notify early so they can prepare
Let a breathing patient sit how they want
📚 Treatment & Transport — full study notes
The cheat sheet above is your quick recall card. These notes go deeper — what it is, what to do first, what changes the plan, and what to hand over.
What you actually do, and where you take them. Roughly a fifth of both entry-level exams. The recurring theme is that an intervention is judged by its effect, not by whether it was performed.
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Key points
Understand these first
Ventilation is judged by chest rise, not by squeezing the bag.
Oxygen is a drug with indications, not a routine comfort measure.
Pulse, motor and sensation before AND after every splint.
Time-critical bleeding you cannot reach means minimal scene time and early notification.
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Nursing priorities
What to do, in order
Let a breathing patient keep the position they chose.
Fit devices around compressions rather than pausing for them.
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Red flags — report now
Escalate immediately
Deterioration after sealing a chest wound — suspect tension
A distal pulse lost after splinting
Hypotension with a pelvic fracture
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Patient teaching
What patients must know
An impaled object may be the only thing stopping the bleeding.
❓ Treatment & Transport: NREMT FAQs
What are the priority actions for Treatment & Transport in the field?
Let a breathing patient keep the position they chose. Fit devices around compressions rather than pausing for them.
What findings in Treatment & Transport change your plan or your transport decision?
Deterioration after sealing a chest wound — suspect tension. A distal pulse lost after splinting. Hypotension with a pelvic fracture.
What do I need to know about Treatment & Transport for the NREMT?
Ventilation is judged by chest rise, not by squeezing the bag. Oxygen is a drug with indications, not a routine comfort measure. Pulse, motor and sensation before AND after every splint. Time-critical bleeding you cannot reach means minimal scene time and early notification.
What should the crew communicate or document for Treatment & Transport?
An impaled object may be the only thing stopping the bleeding.
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Quick Tip
Ventilation is judged by chest rise, not by squeezing the bag.