2009-2010 Official General Catalog [Archived Catalog]
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PMD 213 & 213L - Advanced Prehospital Trauma Care
This is the third course in a basic Emergency Medical Technician’s progression to EMT-Critical Care or Paramedic. It prepares the student to address trauma prevention and to perform prehospital trauma assessment and treatment. Included are the history of EMS, injury and illness prevention strategies, ambulance operations, and crime scene awareness. Primarily, the course focuses on foundational concepts within trauma pathophysiology and advanced trauma treatment modalities including: hypoperfusion, hermorrhage, head, face, neck, spinal, thoracic, abdominal, and burn trauma.
Prerequisite- Corequisite
Prerequisites for this course are: Successful completion of PMD 212 & 212L or permission of the instructor.
General prerequisites include: A currently valid New York State EMT certificate, field experience, and successful completion of instructor approved course work in human anatomy and physiology, e.g. BIO 131 and BIO 132. Course work in human anatomy and physiology may be taken concurrently.
Co-requisite: If successful completion of instructor approved course work in human anatomy and physiology, e.g. BIO 131 and BIO 132 has not been accomplished then course work in human anatomy and physiology may be taken concurrently which at BCC is the BIO 131 and 132 sequence.
Credits: 5
Hours
3 Class hours; 1.5 Lab hours; 4 Clinical hours
Course Profile
Learning Outcomes of the course:
At the completion of this course, following classroom didactic, affective and psychomotor education along with the completion of clinical time each student will be able to:
1. Restate primary injury prevention strategies as an effective way to reduce death, disabilites and health care costs.
2. Analyze human hazards at a crime scene and from a potentially violent patient.
3. Describe safe and minimally intrusive operations at crime scenes.
4. Consistently demonstrate safe ambulance operation.
5. Integrate principles of injury kinematics to enhance patient assessment and predict the likelihood of injuries.
6. Synthesize pathophysiological principles with basic and advanced assessment findings to articulate a field impression, and subsequently develop and implement a treatment plan for:
a. Shock (hypoperfusion)
b. Hermorrhage
c. Suspected or obvious head injury
d. Face injury
e. Suspected or obvious neck injury
f. Suspected or obvious spinal injury
g. Thoracic injury
h. Suspected or obvious abdominal injury
i. Burn injury
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