EMSP-243 Airway Management, Patient Assessment, and Trauma Clinical
Students will be able to establish and/or maintain a patent airway, oxygenate and ventilate a patient utilizing basic and advanced-level skills, take a proper history, perform a comprehensive physical examination on any patient, and communicate the findings to others. Students will be able to integrate pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement a treatment plan for the respiratory emergency and trauma patient to include a transport decision. Students must maintain licensure as a Nationally Registered EMT-I99 (Maryland CRT 99) for the duration of the course and during Paramedic testing.
Hours Weekly
9 hours weekly
Course Objectives
- 1. Assess the physiology and pathophysiology of the adequate and inadequate airway and
respiratory effort. - 2. Manage a tracheostomy emergency to include suctioning, re-insertion, replacement, and
resuscitation. - 3. Demonstrate airway management maneuvers – basic, advanced, and surgical – including CPAP
and emergency ventilators. - 4. Demonstrate the use of ventilation equipment carried on ambulance vehicles and encountered in
the home setting. - 5. Demonstrate the use of oxygenation equipment carried on ambulance vehicles.
- 6. Demonstrate the components of patient assessment.
- 7. Demonstrate a comprehensive patient assessment and formulate a treatment plan for a patient
experiencing a respiratory emergency. - 8. Collect information and communicate a scene size-up and general impression of the patient.
- 9. Demonstrate the process of history-taking.
- 10. Objectively and thoroughly document a patient encounter.
- 11. Formulate a patient priority and transport decision.
- 12. Demonstrate a secondary assessment.
- 13. Transmit an organized actual or simulated biomedical radio consult to a base station or medical
consultation center. - 14. Communicate scene size-up, threat assessment, location, and resource needs for any incident
involving emergency medical services for an actual or simulated medical emergency. - 15. Determine mechanism and severity of injury, and apply findings to a transport decision.
- 16. Manage severe and minor bleeding complaints, internal and external.
- 17. Manage chest wall, pulmonary, and cardiac trauma complaints.
- 18. Manage abdominal and genitourinary trauma.
- 19. Manage orthopedic trauma.
- 20. Manage soft tissue trauma and burns.
- 21. Manage head, facial, neck, spinal, and neurological trauma.
- 22. Manage special cases in trauma such as pregnancy, pediatrics, geriatrics, and special needs
patients. - 23. Manage environmental emergencies.
- 24. Synthesize pathophysiology, signs, symptoms, and mechanism of injury into management of the
critically injured trauma patient.
Course Objectives
- 1. Assess the physiology and pathophysiology of the adequate and inadequate airway and
respiratory effort. - 2. Manage a tracheostomy emergency to include suctioning, re-insertion, replacement, and
resuscitation. - 3. Demonstrate airway management maneuvers – basic, advanced, and surgical – including CPAP
and emergency ventilators. - 4. Demonstrate the use of ventilation equipment carried on ambulance vehicles and encountered in
the home setting. - 5. Demonstrate the use of oxygenation equipment carried on ambulance vehicles.
- 6. Demonstrate the components of patient assessment.
- 7. Demonstrate a comprehensive patient assessment and formulate a treatment plan for a patient
experiencing a respiratory emergency. - 8. Collect information and communicate a scene size-up and general impression of the patient.
- 9. Demonstrate the process of history-taking.
- 10. Objectively and thoroughly document a patient encounter.
- 11. Formulate a patient priority and transport decision.
- 12. Demonstrate a secondary assessment.
- 13. Transmit an organized actual or simulated biomedical radio consult to a base station or medical
consultation center. - 14. Communicate scene size-up, threat assessment, location, and resource needs for any incident
involving emergency medical services for an actual or simulated medical emergency. - 15. Determine mechanism and severity of injury, and apply findings to a transport decision.
- 16. Manage severe and minor bleeding complaints, internal and external.
- 17. Manage chest wall, pulmonary, and cardiac trauma complaints.
- 18. Manage abdominal and genitourinary trauma.
- 19. Manage orthopedic trauma.
- 20. Manage soft tissue trauma and burns.
- 21. Manage head, facial, neck, spinal, and neurological trauma.
- 22. Manage special cases in trauma such as pregnancy, pediatrics, geriatrics, and special needs
patients. - 23. Manage environmental emergencies.
- 24. Synthesize pathophysiology, signs, symptoms, and mechanism of injury into management of the
critically injured trauma patient.