EMT Chapter 11 The Primary Assessment. Ch 11: The Primary Assessment Objectives After reading this chapter you should be able to: 11.1 Define key terms introduced in this chapter. 11.2 Explain the purpose of the primary assessment. (p. 265) 11.3 Discuss the difference in first steps to assessment if the patient is apparently lifeless (C-A-B approach) or if the patient has signs of life, including a pulse (A-B-C approach).
The earliest form of English is called Old English or Anglo-Saxon (c. 550â1066 CE). Old English developed from a set of North Sea Germanic dialects originally spoken along the coasts of Frisia, Lower Saxony, Jutland, and Southern Sweden by Germanic tribes known as the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
Most native English speakers today find Old English unintelligible, even though about half of the most commonly used words in Modern English have Old English roots. The grammar of Old English was much more inflected than modern English, combined with freer word order, and was grammatically quite similar in some respects to modern German. The Old English period is considered to have evolved into the Middle English period some time after the Norman conquest of 1066, when the language came to be influenced significantly by the new ruling class's language, Old Norman.