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May 23, 2024
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2023-2024 Yavapai College Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]
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EMS 273L - Comprehensive Patient Assessment in Paramedicine II
Description: Overview of comprehensive patient assessment. Develops psychomotor skills in the Paramedic Scope of Practice through sequenced lab simulations. Integrates the pathophysiological significance of comprehensive assessment findings to formulate a differential diagnosis and implement a management plan for medical emergencies and trauma. A-F grading only.
Prerequisites: Program Admission.
Credits: 4
Lecture: 1
Lab: 6
Course Content:
- Comprehensive assessment: pathophysiology, epidemiology, technology (diagnostics, heart rhythm monitoring, and other monitoring and diagnostic devices), and techniques
- Integration of assessment findings: differential diagnosis with simulation (medical emergencies and trauma; abdominal, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, renal, endocrine, diseases of eyes, ears, nose, and throat, geriatric, and patients with special challenges)
- Integration of assessment findings: management plan with simulation (medical emergencies and trauma; abdominal, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, renal, endocrine, diseases of eyes, ears, nose, and throat, geriatric, and patients with special challenges)
Learning Outcomes:
- Perform comprehensive patient assessment utilizing technology and techniques according to the Paramedic Scope of Practice. (1)
- Integrate the pathophysiological significance of assessment findings with simulation to formulate a differential diagnosis. (2)
- Integrate the pathophysiological significance of assessment findings with simulation to implement a patient management plan in the Paramedic Scope of Practice for medical emergencies and trauma. (3)
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