Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4765 - State Board of Emergency Medical Services › Chapter 4765-15 - EMT-Basics › Section 4765-15-05 - Emergency medical technician curriculum

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
[Comment: For dates and availability of material incorporated
				by reference in this chapter, see rule
				4765-1-03 of the Administrative
				Code.]
(A) An EMS training
			 program for a certificate to practice as an emergency medical technician shall
			 be conducted in accordance with division (C) of section
			 4765.16 of the Revised Code and
			 this rule. The EMS training program shall be conducted in accordance with the
			 "National EMS Education Standards" approved by NHTSA, the "Ohio Approved EMS
			 Curriculum Standards" approved by the board, and consistent with the scope of practice set forth in
			 rule 4765-15-04 of the Administrative
			 Code. The national and Ohio approved standards
			 referenced in this paragraph are required core competencies for instruction in
			 an EMS training program. Elements of the scope of practice not referenced in
			 the "National EMS Education Standards" or the "Ohio Approved EMS Curriculum"
			 are added competencies that may be taught at the discretion of the EMS training
			 program. Such EMS training program shall consist of a minimum of one
			 hundred fifty hours to include all of the following:
(1) Preparatory;
(2) Anatomy and physiology;
(3) Medical terminology;
(4) Physiology;
(5) Life span development;
(6) Public health;
(7) Pharmacology;
(8) Airway management, respiration, and
			 artificial ventilation, to include:
(a)
			 Insertion of extraglottic and dual lumen airway devices on apneic and pulseless
			 patients;
(b) Endotracheal
			 suctioning through a stoma;
(c)
			 Continuous positive airway pressure device administration and
			 management;
(d) Flow restricted
			 oxygen powered device;
(e) End
			 tidal carbon dioxide monitoring and detection;
(f) Pulse oximeter and capnography equipment
			 application and reading;
(g) Use of
			 a positive pressure ventilation device:
(i)
			 Manually triggered ventilators;
(ii) Automatic transportation
			 ventilators;
(9) Negative impedance threshold
			 devices;
(10) Patient
			 assessment;
(11) Medicine, to
			 include:
(a) Blood glucose
			 monitoring;
(b) Chest compression
			 assist device;
(c) Epinephrine
			 auto-injection administration;
(d)
			 Naloxone administration via auto-injector and intranasal route;
(e) Transport of a central/peripheral
			 intravenous access without an infusion;
(12) Shock and resuscitation;
(13) Trauma, to include:
(a) Care and transportation of a trauma
			 patient;
(b) Helmet
			 removal;
(c) Trauma triage
			 determination pursuant to rule
			 4765-14-02 of the Administrative
			 Code.
(14) Special
			 patient populations;
(15)
									Two hours on identifying and interacting with
			 individuals with dementia;
(16) EMS
			 operations;
(17) Clinical
			 experience, to include:
(a) At least ten hours devoted to combined
			 hospital and prehospital clinical
			 
			 internship;
(b)
										At least
			 ten patient assessments to include one pediatric patient
			 assessment.