EMSA 1501 - Advanced EMT Medical Emergencies

EMSA 1111 - Advanced EMT Clinical  

Course Description:
The Advanced EMT Medical Emergencies is the one of two lecture courses which includes basic and limited advanced skills focused on the acute management and transportation of critical and emergent patients. This course includes the following topics: Emergency Medical Responder and Emergency Medical Technician- National Educational Standards competencies, roles and responsibilities of the AEMT, workforce safety, wellness, public health, communications, documentation, medical/legal/ethical considerations, anatomy and physiology, life span development, pathophysiology, patient assessment, critical thinking, airway management, respiratory emergencies, cardiovascular emergencies, acute diabetic emergencies, abdominal and gastrointestinal emergencies, urologic emergencies, anaphylactic reactions, and behavioral emergencies.

The skills presented in EMSA 1501 and EMSA 1502 may be taught in a coterminous format or in a two-semester format.

Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will demonstrate knowledge of:

1. The student will apply the multiple determinants of professional roles and responsibilities of operating as an Advanced Emergency Medical Technician in the pre-hospital emergency care setting. 
2. The student will apply the multiple determinants of medical and legal considerations of operating as an Advanced Emergency Medical Technician in the pre-hospital emergency care setting. 
3. The student will apply the multiple determinants of the general pathophysiology of the human body relative to patient assessment and treatment.
4. The student will demonstrate fundamental knowledge used in the skills associated with advanced level management of age-related patient airway presentations associated with care as an Advanced Emergency Medical Technician in the pre-hospital emergency care setting. 
5. The student will apply fundamental knowledge in the multiple determinants of pharmacological interventions available to treat patients as an Advanced Emergency Medical Technician in the pre-hospital emergency care setting.
6. The student will apply fundamental knowledge in the multiple determinants of age-related patient management of a medical patient including, but not limited to neurologic emergencies, gastrointestinal/urologic emergencies, immunologic emergencies, endocrine/hematologic emergencies, cardiovascular emergencies, respiratory emergencies, and toxicological emergencies and operational emergencies associated with care as an Advanced Emergency Medical Technician in the pre-hospital setting. 
7. The student will apply fundamental knowledge to perform age-related management of shock and resuscitation.
8. The student will apply scene information to guide emergency management of patients by using scene size up information, patient findings related to primary and secondary assessment, patient history, and reassessment.