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Nov 21, 2024
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EMS 150 - Introduction to Advanced Care
Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 9 Clinical Hours: 0 Credits: 5
Description: This course covers advanced care preparatory material, trauma, advanced airway material, and shock management.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 110 , EMS 105 and EMS 106 .
Course Topics:
Preparatory
- EMS Systems
- Research
- Workforce safety and wellness
- Documentation
- EMS system communication
- Therapeutic communication
- Medical/legal & ethical issues
- Principles of pharmacology
- Medication administration
- Emergency medications
Airway management
- Respiration
- Artificial ventilation
Patient Assessment
- Scene size up
- Primary assessment
- History taking
- Secondary assessment
- Monitoring devices
- Reassessment
Trauma
- Trauma overview and kinematics
- Bleeding
- Chest trauma
- Abdominal and genitourinary trauma
- Orthopedic trauma
- Soft tissue trauma
- Burns
- Head, facial, neck and spine trauma
- Nervous system trauma
- Special considerations in trauma
- Environmental emergencies
- Multi-system trauma
Textbooks:
Textbook information can be found on the Book Inn website
Required Materials:
- Paramedic Clinical & Internship Manual
- EMS 151 Paramedic Clinical I Competency Logs
Grading System:
An overall grade of C or higher is required for transferability.
A = 90 - 100
B = 80 - 89
C = 70 - 79
D = 60 - 69
F = 0 - 59
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate safe and effective medication administration to a patient during an emergency to include calculation of proper medication dosages, venipuncture, and intramuscular and subcutaneous injections.
- Manage a patient airway to ensure patency, adequate mechanical ventilation, oxygenation, and respiration for patients of all ages.
- Obtain a medical history and perform a comprehensive physical examination on any patient and communicate those findings to others.
- Analyze scene information and patient assessment findings (scene size up, primary and secondary assessment, patient history, and reassessment) to guide emergency management.
- Apply advanced concepts of development and pathophysiology in the assessment and management of an emergency trauma patients of all ages.
For SCC Online Courses:
If the course you are taking is online, please review the SCC Online Course Policies that include:
- Identity Verification
- Required materials for all online courses
- Mandatory Attendance Requirement
- Orientation and Support
- Proctored Exams
Standard SCC Course Policies:
Please review the Standard Course Policies on the following topics:
- Academic Integrity
- Add/Drop period
- Attendance
- Classroom Conduct
- Equal Access
- IT Access
- Online Behavior
- Online Confidentiality
- Services For Students with Disabilities
- Student Concerns
- Student Help Services
- Withdrawals
Official Course Syllabus
2024-2025
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