Spanish for EMTs – Get Your Survival Emergency Guide

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As a healthcare worker, you know that most days won’t be easy, you know that stress will be there, and it will be a fast-paced environment, but being an emergency responder makes it even more difficult, since you’re the first person to assist and have contact with the patient that may be in shock. That’s why it’s so important to have the best communication with your patient to provide excellent assistance and attention.

Considering that Spanish is one of the most spoken languages in the world, there’s no doubt that you’ll have a large number of patients who speak Spanish as their native language. And as an emergency responder, you’ll need to be able to communicate effectively with your patients, being able to express fluently, reading their signs of pain, and understanding the spoken language. You must also keep in mind that in an emergency the patient may not be in the best state of mind to provide you with vital information that you will need to assist them, so your skill with their language is going to make a difference.

That’s why in today’s blog we decided to give you a guide with Spanish terms for first responders, EMTs, paramedics, and emergency responders in general. Let us know in the comments what other terms or phrases we could add to make it more complete.

Controlling The Scene

When you arrive at the scene, you may need these phrases to give some indications or ask a few questions to get a better understanding of what happened and assess the situation.

Initial Contact With Patients

Making first contact with a patient can be difficult in an emergency, since they may be in shock. That’s why we’ve gathered these phrases that may come in handy when communicating with your patient for the first time.

Patient Information About Their Symptoms

In these situations, it is crucial to know what’s bothering your patient to provide appropriate care and attention to their symptoms.

Types Of Pain In Spanish

Here, we’ll share with you the most common ways of describing pain, so you can communicate better with your patient when trying to figure out the severity of their symptoms.

Gather Basic Information About The Emergency

To be able to understand what happened at the scene and provide better assistance, you’re going to need to ask a few questions about the emergency.

Emergency Terms In Spanish

We recently wrote a blog about emergency room Spanish vocabulary not too long ago. Take a look there to expand on your emergency room Spanish vocabulary on top of the phrases/terms below.

Cpr In Spanish (Resucitación Cardiopulmonar)

If you ever have to assist a caller over the phone with an emergency that may require CPR, we have a guide in Spanish that can help you. Keep in mind, this is not medical advice and shouldn’t be interpreted as such. Consult a medical professional to actually learn CPR and how you can help someone, and in case of an emergency, call 911. This is simply a guide/reminder for those who are already professionally trained.

1. Check if the person is conscious or not (Chequee si la persona está consciente o inconsciente).
2. If the person appears to be unconscious, touch their shoulder and ask if they’re alright (Si la persona parece estar inconsciente toque su hombro y pregúntele si está bien).
3. Make sure that the person is lying on a firm surface (Asegúrese que la persona se encuentra sobre una superficie firme).
4. Kneel next to the person’s neck and shoulders (Arrodíllese junto al cuello y los hombros de la persona).
5. Put the palm of your hand in the center of the person’s chest, put your other hand on top of it. Keep your elbows straight and position your shoulders directly above your hands (Coloque la palma de su mano en el centro del pecho de la persona, coloque su otra mano sobre esa. Mantenga sus codos derechos y posicione los hombros directamente arriba de las manos).
6. Use your upper body, not just your arms, to compress the chest of the person strongly approximately 2 in or 5 cm (Use la parte superior de su cuerpo, no solo sus brazos, para presionar el pecho con fuerza aproximadamente 2 pulgadas o 5 centímetros).
7. Press firmly at a rate of 100/120 compressions per minute (Presione con firmeza a un ritmo de 100 a 120 compresiones por minuto).
8. Keep maneuvering until you notice movement signs or until the medical professionals arrive on the scene (Continúe realizando la maniobra hasta que note signos de movimiento o hasta que el personal médico llegue al lugar).

First Aid Terms In Spanish

We made a list of the most common first aid terms used in emergencies, but if you want to expand your vocabulary to other frequently used medical terms in Spanish, you can check out our medical Spanish terms blog.

First Aid Kit In Spanish

It’s important to have a well-stocked first-aid kit, here are the basic tools a first aid kit must have.

First Aid Medication In Spanish

The following medication terms are the most frequently found on a first aid kit.

Spanish Apps For Ems And Emts:

Language barriers can have serious consequences in the medical field such as misdiagnosis, mistreatment, and many others, that’s why knowing the correct tools is a must when trying to communicate with a non-English-speaking patient.

Our cellphones are one of the tools that we use the most these days, and it is undoubtedly a great source of knowledge, but sometimes we don’t know how to get the most out of it. There are so many apps to help you communicate with your patient in Spanish these days. In those apps, you can find a complement to human interpreters in healthcare and is available 24/7 on your smartphone, so today we bring you 3 Spanish apps for EMS to help you communicate better with your patients in Spanish:

• Care to Translate: Care to Translate is a digital medical translator for healthcare personnel, it offers medically correct communication with translations in 30 languages verified by native speakers. It works offline and is available for iOS and Android.
• U Doctor: Universal Doctor Speaker is a multilingual application providing key medical phrases translated across 17 languages with audios to facilitate communication between patients and healthcare professionals, it comes with over 500 commonly used medical phrases. It works offline and its content is organized into various medical chapters to help facilitate multilingual medical visits. It works offline and is available for iOS and Android.
• Canopy Speak: Allows you to communicate quickly with patients using over 4,700 common medical phrases created by medical professionals, available across nine medical specialties, it shows phrases with text and audio, it also has the functionality to call live medical interpreters from Canopy if needed. It is available for iOS and Android.

Some Extra Tips:

• Work on your understanding of different accents and idioms.
• Work on making your accent to be as clear as possible.
• Create your own phrase-book with the things that you may need, here is more Spanish Vocabulary for the Emergency Room to add to your phrase-book, if you feel like you need them you could print the PDFs and carry them with you.
• Get yourself a Medical Spanish Tutor to help you with the main things that you struggle with, we have several great tutors available to learn medical Spanish online.
• Use the new technology and platforms available, like Duolingo and Facebook learning groups.
• Never give up on your journey of learning, each day you come closer to your main goal of being fluent and provide your patients with the best assistance.

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