EMS272L — Comprehensive Patient Assessment in Paramedicine I
EMS 272L - Comprehensive Patient Assessment in Paramedicine I EMS 272L - Comprehensive Patient Assessment in Paramedicine I Description: An overview of comprehensive patient assessment. Develops psychomotor skills in the Paramedic Scope of Practice through sequenced lab simulations. Integrates the pathophysiological significance of comprehensive assessment findings to formulate a differential diagnosis and implement a management plan for medical emergencies and trauma. A-F grading only. Lecture: 1 Lab: 6 Course Content: Comprehensive assessment: pathophysiology, epidemiology, technology (diagnostics, heart rhythm monitoring, and other monitoring and diagnostic devices), and techniques Integration of assessment findings: differential diagnosis with simulation (medical emergencies and trauma; neurologic, hematologic, immunologic, toxicologic, psychiatric, infectious disease, gynecologic, obstetric, pediatric, and neonatal) Integration of assessment findings: management plan with simulation (medical emergencies and trauma; neurologic, hematologic, immunologic, toxicologic, psychiatric, infectious disease, gynecologic, obstetric, pediatric, and neonatal) Equipment and technology used in medication administration Steps and techniques of medication administration Learning