At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for own actions within the role of the Paramedic.
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of medications including drug classification, therapeutic effect, side effect, indication, contraindication, dosages and administration routes.
- Demonstrate increasing ability to use effective verbal, non-verbal and written communication with clients and health care team members.
- Demonstrate increasing ability to utilize essential critical thinking skills in a pre-hospital environment.
- Implement effective patient assessment and most appropriate treatment plan.
- Demonstrate specific treatment interventions based on EKG interpretation.
- Describe the appropriate treatment interventions for medical emergencies including: environmental, toxicological, infectious, communicable, and psychiatric and substance abuse.
1. Neurologic Emergencies
2. Disease of the Eye, Ears, Nose & Throat
3. Abdominal & Gastrointestinal Emergencies
4. Genitourinary & Renal Emergencies
5. Gynecological Emergencies
6. Endocrine Emergencies
7. Hematologic Emergencies
8. Immunologic Emergencies
9. Infectious Diseases
10. Toxicology
11. Psychiatric Emergencies
12. Trauma Systems & Mechanism of Injury
13. Bleeding
14. Soft Tissue Trauma
15. Burns
16. Face & Neck Trauma
17. Head & Spine Trauma
18. Chest Trauma
19. Abdominal Trauma
20. Orthopedic Trauma
21. Environmental Emergencies
22. Responding to the Field Code
23. Code Management & Resuscitation of the Critical Patient
24. Obstetrics
25. Neonatal Care
26. Pediatric Emergencies
27. Geriatric Emergencies
28. Patients with Special Challenges
29. Advance Cardiac Life Support