EMSP-242 Airway Management, Patient Assessment, and Trauma
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 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
4 hours weekly
Course Objectives
- 1. Apply the anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology of the upper and lower airway and
respiratory system to adequate and inadequate airway situations. - 2. Assess and manage a patient with a respiratory emergency, including common infectious and
non-infectious respiratory system diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia,
and others. - 3. Assess and manage a tracheostomy emergency to include suctioning, re-insertion, replacement,
and resuscitation. - 4. Demonstrate airway management maneuvers – basic, advanced, and surgical – including
transport ventilators and CPAP. - 5. Demonstrate the use of ventilation equipment carried on ambulance vehicles and encountered
in the home setting. - 6. Demonstrate the use of oxygenation equipment carried on ambulance vehicles.
- 7. Demonstrate the components of patient assessment.
- 8. Formulate and communicate a scene size-up and general impression of the patient.
- 9. Demonstrate the process of history-taking.
- 10. Organize and thoroughly document an actual and simulated patient encounter.
- 11. Formulate a patient priority and transport decision based upon an assessment of a traumatically
injured or ill patient. - 12. Demonstrate a primary and secondary assessment for actual and simulated patients.
- 13. Demonstrate the use of communications devices currently in use by emergency medical
services systems. - 14. Formulate and transmit an efficient biomedical radio consult to a base station or medical
consultation center. - 15. Collect and arrange the information from a scene size-up, threat assessment, location, and
resource needs for a simulated and actual incident involving emergency medical services. - 16. Determine mechanism of injury, severity of injury, and apply findings to a transport decision.
- 17. Recognize and treat severe and minor bleeding complaints, internal and external.
- 18. Analyze and manage chest wall, pulmonary, and cardiac trauma complaints.
- 19. Analyze and manage abdominal and genitourinary trauma.
- 20. Analyze and manage orthopedic trauma.
- 21. Analyze and manage soft tissue trauma and burns.
- 22. Analyze and manage head, facial, neck, spinal, and neurological trauma.
- 23. Analyze and manage special cases in trauma such as pregnancy, pediatrics, geriatrics, and
special needs patients.
- 24. Analyze and manage environmental emergencies.
- 25. Synthesize pathophysiology, signs, symptoms, and mechanism of injury into management of
the critically injured trauma patient.
Course Objectives
- 1. Apply the anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology of the upper and lower airway and
respiratory system to adequate and inadequate airway situations. - 2. Assess and manage a patient with a respiratory emergency, including common infectious and
non-infectious respiratory system diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia,
and others. - 3. Assess and manage a tracheostomy emergency to include suctioning, re-insertion, replacement,
and resuscitation. - 4. Demonstrate airway management maneuvers – basic, advanced, and surgical – including
transport ventilators and CPAP. - 5. Demonstrate the use of ventilation equipment carried on ambulance vehicles and encountered
in the home setting. - 6. Demonstrate the use of oxygenation equipment carried on ambulance vehicles.
- 7. Demonstrate the components of patient assessment.
- 8. Formulate and communicate a scene size-up and general impression of the patient.
- 9. Demonstrate the process of history-taking.
- 10. Organize and thoroughly document an actual and simulated patient encounter.
- 11. Formulate a patient priority and transport decision based upon an assessment of a traumatically
injured or ill patient. - 12. Demonstrate a primary and secondary assessment for actual and simulated patients.
- 13. Demonstrate the use of communications devices currently in use by emergency medical
services systems. - 14. Formulate and transmit an efficient biomedical radio consult to a base station or medical
consultation center. - 15. Collect and arrange the information from a scene size-up, threat assessment, location, and
resource needs for a simulated and actual incident involving emergency medical services. - 16. Determine mechanism of injury, severity of injury, and apply findings to a transport decision.
- 17. Recognize and treat severe and minor bleeding complaints, internal and external.
- 18. Analyze and manage chest wall, pulmonary, and cardiac trauma complaints.
- 19. Analyze and manage abdominal and genitourinary trauma.
- 20. Analyze and manage orthopedic trauma.
- 21. Analyze and manage soft tissue trauma and burns.
- 22. Analyze and manage head, facial, neck, spinal, and neurological trauma.
- 23. Analyze and manage special cases in trauma such as pregnancy, pediatrics, geriatrics, and
special needs patients.
- 24. Analyze and manage environmental emergencies.
- 25. Synthesize pathophysiology, signs, symptoms, and mechanism of injury into management of
the critically injured trauma patient.