2023-2024 Yavapai College Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]
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EMS 142 - Emergency Medical Technician
Description: Preparation for employment as competent entry-level Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs). Introductory survey of emergency medical services, including but not limited to preparatory, airway and double lumen device, patient assessment, medical behavioral emergencies, obstetrics and gynecology, trauma, pediatrics and infants, geriatrics, and operations. Upon successful completion of EMS 142, EMS 142L , and EMS 143 with a grade of "C" or better, the program will submit the student's name to take the National Registry of EMT certification examination for EMT.
Corequisite: EMS 142L and EMS 143
Credits: 6
Lecture: 6
Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Preparatory: EMS history, systems, medical-legal-ethical issues, communication, and documentation
- Patient assessment: basic anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, patient assessment, and triage
- Airway & ventilation: proper airway management, respiration, and ventilation
- Pharmacology: all medications that can be administered or assisted with, within an EMT's scope of practice
- Shock & resuscitation: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), bleeding, shock, and associated management principles
- Medical: medical emergencies including respiratory, cardiac, stroke, diabetic, anaphylaxis, poisons, diseases, environmental, behavioral, emergency childbirth, and associated management principles
- Trauma: soft tissue injuries, burns, fractures, head-chest-abdominal injuries, nervous system injuries, and associated management principles
- Special patient populations: management of special situations using lifespan development principles
- EMS operations
Learning Outcomes:
- Perform one- and two-person cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for the adult, child, and infant patient according to the latest American Heart Association, Basic Life Support for Healthcare Provider standards. (1-2, 5)
- Manage scene safety, including personal protective equipment, in the workplace. (1, 9)
- Determine priorities of care. (1-9)
- Define the role, scope of practice, legal and ethical responsibilities of an EMT. (1-2)
- Assess, manage, and stabilize patients of all ages suffering airway obstructions, respiratory arrest, and cardiac arrest with the use of CPR, automated external defibrillator, ventilatory assistance and oxygen. (1-6)
- Assess, manage, and stabilize patients of all ages with medical emergencies and emergency childbirth. (1, 6, 8)
- Assess, manage, and stabilize patients of all ages suffering bleeding, shock, soft tissue injuries, burns, fractures, nervous system injuries, head, chest, and abdominal injuries. (1-7)
- Prepare the patient for transport to an appropriate medical facility with a minimum of aggravation to the patient's illness or injury. (1, 9)
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