EMT 105 — Introduction to Emergency Medical Services
Introduces the student to Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Explores the career pathways for EMTs and Paramedics. Examines the history, structure, and function of our modern-day EMS system. Includes provider roles and responsibilities, operations, safety, legal considerations, and career opportunities. In addition, this class provides a foundation for the EMT certification course by including a review of anatomy and physiology; where things are and how they are supposed to work, pathophysiology; what happens when disease or injury causes those systems to fail, and patient assessment; how EMS providers evaluate for those conditions and make treatment and transport decisions.