I'm working on a health & medical writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Write a 1-page fictional story using any 15 medical acronyms that you learned in class. Your document must be double-spaced and 12-font.

The fictional story may be one of the following scenarios:

A. You are the first responder arriving to the scene of a car crash victim (s) right off the Palmetto Expressway.

B. You are a member of the Emergency Room (ER) Response team, and a trauma victim is being admitted to the ER.

Please ensure that your story has logic and makes sense. Please underline the medical acronyms in your story.

HSC 2400 ACRONYMS/MNEMONICS

AHA American Heart Association

ECSI Emergency Care & Safety Institute

AAOS American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

ACEP American College of Emergency Physicians

ARC American Red Cross

NSC National Safety Council

CDC Center for Disease Control

CDCP Center for Disease Control and Prevention

FDA Food and Drug Administration

EPA Environmen tal Protection Agency

OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration

BLS/ACLS Basic Life Support/ Advance cardiac Life Support

PBLS/PALS Pediatric Basic Life Support/ Pediatric Advanced Life Support AED/ PAD Automated External Defibrillators/ Publicly Accessible Defibrillator CPR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

FBAO Foreign Body Airway Obstruction

EMS/EMT Emergency Medical Service, Emergency Medical Technicians PTSD Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder

BSI Body Substance Isolation

PPE Personal Protective Equipment

Ml/SCA Myocardial Infarction/ Sudden Cardiac Arrest

V-FIB/V-TACH Ventricular Fibrillation/ Ventricular Tachycardia DE-FIB Defibrillation

COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

HBV/HCV Hepatitis B Virus/ Hepatitis C Virus

HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquire Immunodeficiency Syndrome SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome