EMSA 1215 - Basic Emergency Medical Technician Lecture

Credit Hours: 7.00

Objectives:

1. Demonstrate organization, preparedness, perseverance, integrity, and respect for others.
2. Display courtesy, punctuality, organization, and a pride in the professional appearance.
3. Demonstrate empathy for and a desire to help all patients, real or simulated.

Outcome 2:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify the role and responsibilities of the basic EMT in the medical and emergency fields.

Objectives:

1. Identify the evolution of the EMT.
2. Comply with all laws that govern the EMT’s interaction with patients, coworkers, and with the community.
3. Know the requirements with regard to communication, documentation, equipment maintenance, and protocols.
4. Assess the situation and determine if there is need for a paramedic unit.

Outcome 3:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify the importance of an effective and naturalized patient assessment and for determining a treatment plan.

Objectives:

1. Identify the importance of and consistently perform a scene size‐up.
2. Know the procedures for and consistently perform an initial assessment.
3. Identify the difference between a rapid trauma, focused trauma, rapid medical, and focused medical assessment, and be able to apply each assessment appropriately.
4. Utilize communication and critical thinking skills to obtain a realistic impression of the patient and the situation.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to manage a patient with a medical complaint across the lifespan.

Objectives:

1. Recognize the pathophysiology of the medical complaint as it relates to patient care
2. Perform a correct body-system assessment as it relates to the chief complaint
3. Establish a differential diagnosis based on complaint and assessment findings
4. Recognize a patient with adequate or compromised perfusion
5. Establish and manage appropriate ventilatory support
6. Implement the correct treatment following patient assessment
7. Implement the correct pharmacologic treatment plan

Outcome 5:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to assess a traumatic scene or an injured patient and determine the extent of their injuries, quickly applying treatments in a manner that will not harm them nor significantly delay hospital intervention.

Objectives:

1. Interpret findings from the scene size‐up or from the initial patient survey to conduct a rapid trauma assessment or a focused trauma assessment appropriately.
2. Call for the rapid trauma assessment in a manner that doesn’t cause additional injury, nor substantially delays hospital intervention.
3. Detect hypoperfusion in the trauma patient and manage it correctly.
4. Manage specific injuries such as blunt, penetrating, fractured, burnt, or crushing.
5. Modify his/her trauma assessment or management for injuries occurring in the head, face, neck, spinal column, thorax, or abdomen.

Outcome 6:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify the underlying physiological changes that occur during fetal development for both mother and child and manage obstetrical, gynecological, or pediatric emergencies.

Objectives:

1. Identify the basic structure of the reproductive system.
2. Identify the physiological changes that occur in both mother and fetus during pregnancy.
3. Manage a normal labor and delivery.
4. Handle obstetrical emergencies such as abnormal presentation, neonatal resuscitation, or post‐partum hemorrhage.
5. Identify the physiological differences between an adult and pediatric, including vital signs, and modify his/her treatment to accommodate the pediatric patient.
6. Identify common childhood diseases and know the appropriate treatment for each.

Outcome 7: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify the physiological changes to the body caused by various environmental conditions and will be able to safely and effectively manage each.

Objectives:

1. Identify the effects of hypoxia via asphyxiation, poisoning, or submersion, and manage the patient in each scenario.
2. Manage correctly the patient suffering from burns, frostbite, hyperthermia, or hypothermia.
3. Identify the signs of toxic inhalation or injection, and correctly and safely manage the patient.
4. Manage patients suffering from injuries resulting from barotrauma related to diving injuries. 
5. Manage patients suffering injuries from bites or stings from various terrestrial and aquatic animals/insects

Outcome 8:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify the Incident Command System and participate in a multiple casualty incident in a productive manner while assuring for the safety of self, coworkers, patient, and community.

Objectives:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the incident command system.
2. Identify the goals of each sector.
3. Perform a field triage in a manner that efficiently delivers patients to treatment.
4. Identify the process of staging, communication, and transport in a multiple casualty incident (MCI).
5. Identify the need for critical incident stress debriefing after or a defusing during an MCI.

Module 2: Respiratory and Ventilatory Assessment and Support

Module 3: Neurological Assessment and Support

Module 4: Cardiovascular Assessment and Support

Module 5: Traumatic Injury

Module 6: Obstetrics and Gynecology

Module 7: Environmental Emergencies and Altered L.O.C. (Level Of Consciousness)

Module 8: Multiple Casualty Incidents