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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is an overview of the structure and function of the human body. Emphasis is placed on directing, defining, and describing normal and pathological body conditions. Includes a patient assessment by body region and how to communicate effectively with medical control and other members of the health care team.
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4.00 Credits
EMS systems are overviewed. Emphasis is placed on professionalism, responsibility, development, improvement, and community involvement. The ethical and legal aspects of Emergency Medical Systems including malpractice, consent, and contracts will also be discussed. EMS communications, stress management, and emergency rescue techniques are taught.
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4.00 Credits
Clinical pharmacology, classification, and uses of medications with emphasis on the proper indications, precautions, dosages, and methods of administration will be covered. The course will include dosage calculations and metric conversions.
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1.00 Credits
Supervised experience in the pre-hospital care setting in a paramedic ambulance service is covered in this course. This will aid all the paramedic students in an understanding of the Advanced Life Support system. This will provide the student with the opportunity to utilize skills as a team member and progress to function as a team leader under the direct supervision of a paramedic in a field setting. Includes directing activities at the scene, delegating patient care responsibilities, and providing coordination of events from dispatch to the transfer of patient care to the emergency care physician.
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3.00 Credits
Supervised rotations through hospital clinical areas. Emphasis will focus on areas that reinforce and allow the paramedic student to apply airway management, IV therapy, and patient assessment skills.
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3.00 Credits
Management and treatment of traumatic injuries including soft tissue, central nervous system, and musculoskeletal structures, anatomy and pathophysiology, and assessment and management of traumatic injuries involving these human systems. Includes management of all types of burns.
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4.00 Credits
Recognition, management, and pathophysiology of patients with medical emergencies are included in this course. Includes respiratory disorders, diabetic emergencies, nervous systems disorders, acute abdominal pain and renal failure and anaphylaxis.
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3.00 Credits
Recognition, management and pathophysiology of patients with medical emergencies. Includes toxicology, drug abuse, alcoholism, infectious diseases, environmental emergencies, geriatrics, pediatrics, behavioral emergencies and crisis intervention.
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4.00 Credits
Etiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, cardiac disease process and assessment of patient with cardiac disorders. ACLS skills and techniques are taught. Emphasis will be placed on the interpretation of cardiac dysrhythmia, clinical signs and symptoms of cardiac conditions, indications and administration of cardiac therapy along with defibrillation and synchronized cardioversion skills.
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5.00 Credits
This course will introduce the student to the kinetics of trauma as it relates to the injured patient, also, the signs and symptoms of injury to the body with the standard of treatment for those injuries. The art of extrication and patient triage are a part of this course as it relates to the Pre-hospital setting.
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