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.
Sumer, an ancient civilization of southern Mesopotamia, is believed to be the place where written language was first invented around 3200 BC. Limestone Kish tablet from Sumer with pictographic writing; may be the earliest known writing, 3500 BC.