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Nov 12, 2024
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EMT 296 Paramedic, Part 1 Lecture Hours: 12 Lab Hours: 6 Credits: 14
Offers first term of a three-term course, which includes EMT 296, EMT 297 , EMT 298 , and EMT 280H . Focuses on patient assessment; airway and ventilation; pathophysiology of shock; general pharmacology; and respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, behavioral, and acute abdominal emergencies. Applies didactic knowledge to campus-based laboratory skills practice and clinical patient care in the hospital setting. Failure of this course will require retaking the full sequence of Paramedic courses (EMT 296, EMT 297 , EMT 298 , and EMT 280H )
Prerequisite: Fourth term standing in the Emergency Medical Technology program. Student Learning Outcomes:
- Perform complete and accurate patient assessments in a variety of settings, including laboratory and clinical settings with hospital patients.
- Assess and treat appropriately a wide variety of airway and ventilation problems, in both the laboratory and clinical settings.
- Assess the need for and initiate intravenous therapy in both the laboratory and clinical settings.
- Differentiate between and among a wide variety of respiratory ailments, cardiac patient presentations, neurological patient presentations, behavioral patient assessments and acute abdominal complaints and apply appropriate interventions, both in the laboratory and clinical settings.
- Identify and interpret ECG rhythms and demonstrate appropriate treatment modalities.
- Determine appropriate medical therapies, including pharmacology, based on patient assessment, both simulated and actual patients and calculate drug dosages and administer medications.
Content Outline
- Preparatory
- General principles of pathophysiology
- Venous access and medication administration
- Therapeutic communications
- Life-span development
- Workplace safety and wellness
- Ethics and diversity
- Pharmacology
- Airway Management and Ventilation
- Patient Assessment
- History-taking
- Physical exam
- Patient assessment
- Clinical decision making and assessment-based management
- Communications
- Documentation
- Medical
- Pulmonary
- Cardiovascular disease
- Neurological problems
- Gastroenterology
- Behavioral and psychiatric disorders
- Obstetric and gynecologic emergencies
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