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Course Criteria
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1.50 Credits
Prerequisite: EMT Basic or EMT Intermediate and acceptance into the Paramedic Program. Students successfully completing this course will demonstrate a behavioral, cognitive, and psychomotor understanding of, and proficiency with, basic and advanced airway management. This course will be offered for 1.5 credits (15 hours lecture and 22 hours lab).
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2.50 Credits
Prerequisite: EMT Basic or EMT Intermediate and acceptance into the Paramedic Program. This course introduces the Paramedic student to a comprehensive physical examination and assessment, which includes history taking, clinical decision making, communications, and documentation.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EMT Basic or EMT Intermediate and acceptance into the Paramedic Program. This course prepares the Paramedic student to identify single and multi-lead cardiac rhythms and treat those rhythms considered to be life-threatening with electrical therapy. The skills taught include defibrillation, cardioversion, and cardiac rhythm interpretation. It will also prepare the student to assess, manage and treat various cardiovascular emergencies that includes ventricular fibrillation, bradycardia, tachycardia, myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock, pulmonary edema, angina pectoris, congestive heart failure, hypertension, PEA (pulseless electrical activity), and asystole.
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7.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EMT Basic or EMT Intermediate and acceptance into the Paramedic Program. This course prepares the Paramedic to identify, assess, manage, and treat various medical emergencies. Topics include Neurology, Endocrinology, Allergies and Anaphylaxis, Gasteroeneterology, Urology, Toxicology, Environmental Conditions, Infectious and Communicable Diseases, Behavioral and Psychiatric Disorders, Gynecological and Obstetrical Emergencies, and associated pharmacological interventions. Advanced Cardiac life Support is designed for healthcare providers who either direct or participate in the resuscitation of a patient, whether in the prehospital or hospital setting. The course will enhance skills in the treatment of arrest and peri-arrest patients through active participation in a series of simulated cardiopulmonary cases. Megacodes will be practiced and evaluated.
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5.50 Credits
Prerequisite: EMT Basic or EMT Intermediate and acceptance into the Paramedic Program. This course prepares the student to identify, assess, manage, and treat various types of trauma emergencies. Topics include Trauma Systems, Mechanism of Injury, Soft-Tissue Trauma, Burns, Head and Face Trauma, Spinal Trauma, Thoracic Trauma, Abdominal Trauma, and Musculoskeletal Trauma. Skills include trauma assessment, splinting, bandaging, spinal immobilization, IV therapy, chest decompression, and associated pharmacological interventions. The ITLS course is designed to teach Paramedics the skills necessary to recognize mechanisms of injury, assess, perform critical interventions, package, and fundamental knowledge and experiences necessary to get the trauma patient to the emergency department. A major focus of the course is the identification of conditions that require immediate transport in order to save the patient. Lifesaving techniques are taught or reviewed in practical exercises. Certification at the ITLS level will be current for three (3) years.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EMT Basic or EMT Intermediate and acceptance into the Paramedic Program. Prerequisite: EMT Basic or EMT Intermediate and acceptance into the Paramedic Program. This course prepares the Paramedic to identify, assess, manage, and treat age related emergencies, and other special challenges. The student will also be introduced to the concept of assessment based management. Topics include Neonatology, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Abuse and Assault, and Patients with Special Challenges.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EMT Basic or EMT Intermediate and acceptance into the Paramedic Program. This course will contain the principles of Assessment Based Management that will teach the paramedic student how to implement a plan for patients with common complaints. The course will also prepare the Paramedic to the concepts of medical incident command, ambulance and rescue operations, hazardous materials, incident, and crime scene awareness.
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5.50 Credits
Prerequisite: Entrance into the Paramedic Program at TMCC and successful skills evaluation. This course allows the paramedic student to apply learned classroom skills and knowledge in the hospital environment such as telemetry, intensive care unit, psychiatric unit, emergency department, and labor and delivery. The student will function under the direction of a nurse or paramedic preceptor. This course will be offered for 5.5 credits.
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12.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of the Didactic and Clinical portion of the Paramedic Program. Prerequisite: Completion of the didactic and clinical portion of the Paramedic Program. This course is designed to introduce the Paramedic student to the advanced life support prehospital operations. The student will also become familiar with procedures and care provided by paramedics in the field, and will be a third person on a paramedic rescue unit and will work directly with his or her paramedic preceptor.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of the Field Internship I for the Paramedic course, EMS 217B. Prerequisite: Completion of the Field Internship I for the Paramedic Course (EMS 217B). This course is a continuation of the Field Internship I course (EMS 217B), and allows students to practice and apply advanced life support knowledge and skills. Each student will be a third person on a paramedic rescue unit and will work directly with a paramedic preceptor. This course will be offered for 3 credit hours (135 field hours and will be graded on a pass/fail basis).
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