This course focuses on the assessment and management of the trauma victim. Also included are rescue techniques, mass casualty and triage principles, and stress management techniques. This course provides a hands-on setting in which students will learn how to manage trauma victims. This course provides students an opportunity to manage the trauma victim and the obstetrical patient in the hospital and prehospital settings. This course provides students an opportunity to interact with patients in the hospital and in urban, rural, and private prehospital settings.
Students function as team members with the prehospital team.
This course provides a clinical setting in which students practice as paramedics in urban, rural, and private ambulance services. Students will be expected to function as the team leaders of the prehospital team. Special topics, projects, or readings for students enrolled in paramedic science.