Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will be able to:
1. Perform current techniques in pre-hospital emergency care to include signs and symptoms of illness, injuries,
medical emergencies, appropriate medical techniques, and ambulance operations.
2. Assess, extricate, and care for victims of trauma incidents utilizing the following management skills; scene sizeup,
disentanglement, victim stabilization for single and multi-victim situations, hazardous materials incidents,
integration of local emergency medical services (EMS) for patient assessment and management, and standard
operating procedures.
3. Describe the basic pharmacological background and actions of drugs, regulations, human body systems, pharmacokinetics,
and drug calculations.
4. Demonstrate the advanced life support skills approach to emergency care of the emotionally disturbed to include
emotional aspects, approach to the patient, psychiatric emergencies and techniques of management.
5. Perform an advanced physical assessment on an emergency patient to include the physical exam, integrative and
on-going exams, and communicate/document the findings to the patient and others.
6. Recognize and intervene in medical emergencies related to toxicology, hazardous materials, infectious disease,
and hematology. Include poisoning, drug overdose, and transmission of infectious diseases.
7. Identify pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the
treatment plan for the patient with cardiovascular disease/injury based on 3-lead and 12-lead cardiac monitoring
and interpretation. Define cardiovascular anatomy and physiology, cardiovascular pathologies and management,
and adjunctive diagnostics.
8. Utilize assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for obstetric, neonatal,
pediatric, geriatric, and chronic-care patients.