2023-2024 Official General Catalog [Archived Catalog]
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PMD 211 - Foundations in Advanced Prehospital Care
This initial course in an Emergency Medical Technician’s progression to Critical Care Technician or Paramedic covers foundational preparatory concepts that enable them to enter the clinical setting, hone their EMT skills and be safe. The course includes advanced provider roles and responsibilities, field safety, and the components of our EMS system. The course also includes general cellular physiology & pathophysiology including acid-base balance, basic and advanced airway management, field history taking & patient assessment skills, introductory pharmacology & routs of administration and their associated skills, and concludes with an in-depth discussion of pulmonology pathophysiology and advanced treatment modalities.
Prerequisite- Corequisite
Prerequisites: Valid New York State Department of Health EMT - Basic certification
Credits: 3
Hours
3 Class Hours; 1.5 Laboratory Hours; 2 Clinical Hours
Course Profile
Learning Outcomes of the Course:
Upon successful completion of this course, following classroom didactic, affective and psychomotor education along with the completion of clinical time each student will be able to:
- List the roles and responsibilities of personnel within an EMS system, and how these roles and responsibilities differ.
- Write the importance of personal wellness and wellbeing of the EMS provider.
- Justify how to serve as a healthy role model for peers.
- Consistently demonstrate safe and effective behaviors in the initial response phase of an emergency.
- Consistently demonstrate collecting and documenting a thorough and accurate field patient history and subjective assessment.
- Consistently perform and document efficient field medical and trauma patient physical assessments.
- Discuss general cellular physiology and pathophysiology including acid-base balance.
- Consistently demonstrate safe and efficient establishment and maintenance of a patient’s airway.
- Consistently demonstrate safe and appropriate ventilation of a patient including ongoing assessment of oxygenation.
- Safely and precisely obtain access to the venous circulation.
- Safely and precisely administer medications.
- Synthesize pathophysiological principles with basic and advanced assessment findings to articulate a field impression, and subsequently formulate and implement a treatment plan for the patient with respiratory problems.
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