Department permission required. Designed for rural area EMTs providing care above the EMT Basic level. Current HCP level CPR and Oregon EMT Basic Certification required. Includes resources, supporting behavioral patterns and handling emotional stress of the individual as well as coping with emotional conflict within one's self. Introduces techniques and tools of patient extrication, emphasizing application to traffic accidents.
Helps build a medical vocabulary.
Examination of representative anatomical structures, diseases, procedures, tumors, and descriptive terms by simple analysis of words. For those who are usually the first persons at the scene of trauma or medical emergencies including law enforcement, fire department personnel, etc. Department permission required. Focus shifts to pathophysiology specific to respiratory and cardiovascular systems. The patients to whom the students are exposed shall have disease and injury conditions comparable to those the student will experience in the prehospital care situation.