Introductory course focusing on skills to recognize and properly treat illness and injury in the prehospital setting. Successful completion of the course allows students the opportunity to test for certification by the National Registry of EMTs and the Arizona Department of Health Services. A total of 24 hours of clinical and/or vehicular experience will be scheduled to provide direct, hands-on experience with a variety of patients. An additional fee is required.
Concurrent enrollment in EMT 103L is required.
Prerequisites
Acceptance into Gila Community College’s EMT Program.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Describe current topics in the current National EMS Education Standards (NEMSES) curriculum.
- Perform the skills in the current National EMS Education Standards (NEMSES) curriculum.
- Correctly perform skills in the current NEMSES curriculum.
- Identify and care for a patient in need of basic life support.
- Use mechanical aids for breathing and circulation.
- Identify and treat a patient in shock.
- Identify and treat injuries to the head, chest, abdomen, and genitalia.
- Identify and treat soft tissue injuries.
- Stabilize and splint muscular-skeletal injuries in the extremities.
- Identify and treat injuries to the skull, brain, neck, and spine.
- Identify and treat a patient with metabolic emergency.
- Identify and treat a patient with a toxicological emergency.
- Identify signs and symptoms of patients with a communicable disease.
- Identify and treat gynecologic and obstetrical emergencies.
- Identify and treat pediatric emergencies to include sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
- Identify and treat patients with behavioral emergencies.
- Identify and treat environmental emergencies.
- Apply techniques used in lifting, moving, positioning, or extricating patients to minimize discomfort and additional injury.
- Identify and use equipment assigned to ambulance and rescue vehicles.
- Triage and categorize patient care by priorities in a simulated disaster.
- Respond to a simulated hazardous incident and identify management procedures.
- Idintify and treat the pulseless patient including the use of the semi-automatic defibrillator.
- Assess the site of a peripheral intravenous infusion to determine patency of the line or infiltration.
- Monitor the rate of delivery of an intravenous infusion solution.