EMS 269 - Trauma Patient Management in Paramedicine

1. Paramedic's operational roles and responsibilities: transport operations, incident management, multi-casualty incidents, extraction, special rescue, hazardous materials, terrorism incidents, and disaster response
2. Triage principles and practice
3. Comprehensive assessment: pathophysiology, epidemiology, technology (diagnostics and other monitoring and diagnostic devices), techniques, trauma conditions and environmental emergencies (hemorrhage, soft tissue trauma, burns, face and neck trauma, head and spine trauma, chest trauma, abdominal and genitourinary trauma, orthopedic trauma, and environmental emergencies)
4. Formulate a differential diagnosis
5. Management plan: pharmacologic agents, trauma conditions, and environmental emergencies (hemorrhage, soft tissue trauma, burns, face and neck trauma, head and spine trauma, chest trauma, abdominal and genitourinary trauma, orthopedic trauma, and environmental emergencies)

1. Explain the paramedic's operational roles and responsibilities in transport operations, incident management, multi-casualty incidents, extraction, special rescue, hazardous materials incidents, terrorism incidents, and disaster response. (1)
2. Integrate knowledge of triage principles and practice to categorize patients effectively in multi-casualty incidents. (2)
3. Perform comprehensive patient assessment utilizing technology and techniques according to the paramedic's scope of practice. (3)
4. Integrate pathophysiologic principles, epidemiology, and comprehensive assessment to formulate a differential diagnosis for various trauma conditions. (3, 4)
5. Integrate knowledge of pharmacologic agents to manage various trauma conditions. (5)
6. Integrate the pathophysiological significance of assessment findings to implement a patient management plan in the paramedic scope of practice for various trauma conditions. (5)