EMS 142L - Emergency Medical Technician Lab

1. Preparatory: EMS history, systems, medical-legal-ethical issues, communication, and documentation
2. Patient assessment: basic anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, patient assessment, and triage
3. Airway & ventilation: proper airway management, respiration, and ventilation
4. Pharmacology: all medications that can be administered or assisted with, within an EMT's scope of practice
5. Shock & resuscitation: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), bleeding, shock, and associated management principles
6. Medical: medical emergencies including respiratory, cardiac, stroke, diabetic, anaphylaxis, poisons, diseases, environmental, behavioral, emergency childbirth, and associated management principles
7. Trauma: soft tissue injuries, burns, fractures, head-chest-abdominal injuries, nervous system injuries, and associated management principles
8. Special patient populations: management of special situations using lifespan development principles
9. EMS operations

1. Synthesize EMT standard of care and scope of practice to perform comprehensive patient assessment in a lab simulation setting. (1-9)
2. Demonstrate patient advocacy within the EMT standard of care and scope of practice in a lab simulation setting. (1-9)
3. Demonstrate ethical and professional behaviors consistent with EMT standard of care and scope of practice. (1-9)
4. Synthesize EMT standard of care and scope of practice to perform a differential diagnosis in medical emergencies and trauma in a lab simulation setting. (1-9)
5. Synthesize EMT standard of care and scope of practice to manage medical emergencies and trauma in a lab simulation setting. (1-9)
6. Pass the National Registry practical skills examination. (1-9)