This course provides the EMT-I student the opportunity, within a structured supervised environment, to apply the cognitive and behavioral skills of advanced level assessment and management of the emergency patient. In addition, the EMT-Intermediate are able to provide advanced airway management, perform cardiac monitoring and defibrillation and administer approved medication. This course provides the EMT-Intermediate student with the opportunity to gain field experience providing advanced life support care in the prehospital setting. The student works with an assigned preceptor during 90 hours of field experience to better develop the practical skills required of an EMT-Intermediate. Students utilize assessment skills to form general impressions of medical and trauma patients.
Students then demonstrate how to treat acutely ill or injured patients.
This course introduces the paramedic student to the roles and responsibilities of the paramedic within an EMS system and how these roles and responsibilities differ from other levels of providers. Emphasis is on personal wellness, integration of primary injury prevention, legal issues, the role of ethics, life-span development, general concepts of pathophysiology, principles of therapeutic communication, and patient assessment. This course provides instruction and treatment plans concerning pharmacological principles, hemorrhage, shock and venous access. The paramedic student learns the patholphysiological principles of medication administration with patient management as it pertains to a wide variety of situations and specifically shock and hemorrhage. Opportunity to develop skills in the performance of venous access is provided in the college classroom and laboratory situations.