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.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

EMSP 240 and EMSP 241

Corequisite

EMSP 242

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. 1Manage abdominal and genitourinary trauma.
19. 1Manage 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. 1Manage abdominal and genitourinary trauma.
19. 1Manage 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.