EMSP 242 Airway Management, Patient Assessment, and Trauma

Students will be able to establish and/or maintain a patent airway, oxygenate and ventilate a patient utilizing basic and advanced level skills, take a proper history, perform a comprehensive physical examination on any patient, and communicate the findings to others. Students will be able to integrate pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement a treatment plan for the trauma patient to include a transport decision. Students must maintain licensure as a Nationally Registered EMT-I99 (Maryland CRT 99) for the duration of the course and during Paramedic testing.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

EMSP 240 and EMSP 241

Corequisite

EMSP 243

Hours Weekly

4 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. Apply the anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology of the upper and lower airway and
   respiratory system to adequate and inadequate airway situations.
2. Assess and manage a patient with a respiratory emergency, including common infectious and
   non-infectious respiratory system diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia,
   and others.
3. Assess and manage a tracheostomy emergency to include suctioning, re-insertion, replacement,
   and resuscitation.
4. Demonstrate airway management maneuvers – basic, advanced, and surgical – including
   transport ventilators and CPAP.
5. Demonstrate the use of ventilation equipment carried on ambulance vehicles and encountered
   in the home setting.
6. Demonstrate the use of oxygenation equipment carried on ambulance vehicles.
7. Demonstrate the components of patient assessment.
8. Formulate and communicate a scene size-up and general impression of the patient.
9. Demonstrate the process of history-taking.
10. Organize and thoroughly document an actual and simulated patient encounter.
11. Formulate a patient priority and transport decision based upon an assessment of a traumatically
    injured or ill patient.
12. Demonstrate a primary and secondary assessment for actual and simulated patients.
13. Demonstrate the use of communications devices currently in use by emergency medical
    services systems.
14. Formulate and transmit an efficient biomedical radio consult to a base station or medical
    consultation center.
15. Collect and arrange the information from a scene size-up, threat assessment, location, and
    resource needs for a simulated and actual incident involving emergency medical services.
16. Determine mechanism of injury, severity of injury, and apply findings to a transport decision.
17. Recognize and treat severe and minor bleeding complaints, internal and external.
18. Analyze and manage chest wall, pulmonary, and cardiac trauma complaints.
19. Analyze and manage abdominal and genitourinary trauma.
20. Analyze and manage orthopedic trauma.
21. Analyze and manage soft tissue trauma and burns.
22. Analyze and manage head, facial, neck, spinal, and neurological trauma.
23. Analyze and manage special cases in trauma such as pregnancy, pediatrics, geriatrics, and
    special needs patients.
    
24. Analyze and manage environmental emergencies.
25. Synthesize pathophysiology, signs, symptoms, and mechanism of injury into management of
    the critically injured trauma patient.

Course Objectives

1. Apply the anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology of the upper and lower airway and
   respiratory system to adequate and inadequate airway situations.
2. Assess and manage a patient with a respiratory emergency, including common infectious and
   non-infectious respiratory system diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia,
   and others.
3. Assess and manage a tracheostomy emergency to include suctioning, re-insertion, replacement,
   and resuscitation.
4. Demonstrate airway management maneuvers – basic, advanced, and surgical – including
   transport ventilators and CPAP.
5. Demonstrate the use of ventilation equipment carried on ambulance vehicles and encountered
   in the home setting.
6. Demonstrate the use of oxygenation equipment carried on ambulance vehicles.
7. Demonstrate the components of patient assessment.
8. Formulate and communicate a scene size-up and general impression of the patient.
9. Demonstrate the process of history-taking.
10. Organize and thoroughly document an actual and simulated patient encounter.
11. Formulate a patient priority and transport decision based upon an assessment of a traumatically
    injured or ill patient.
12. Demonstrate a primary and secondary assessment for actual and simulated patients.
13. Demonstrate the use of communications devices currently in use by emergency medical
    services systems.
14. Formulate and transmit an efficient biomedical radio consult to a base station or medical
    consultation center.
15. Collect and arrange the information from a scene size-up, threat assessment, location, and
    resource needs for a simulated and actual incident involving emergency medical services.
16. Determine mechanism of injury, severity of injury, and apply findings to a transport decision.
17. Recognize and treat severe and minor bleeding complaints, internal and external.
18. Analyze and manage chest wall, pulmonary, and cardiac trauma complaints.
19. Analyze and manage abdominal and genitourinary trauma.
20. Analyze and manage orthopedic trauma.
21. Analyze and manage soft tissue trauma and burns.
22. Analyze and manage head, facial, neck, spinal, and neurological trauma.
23. Analyze and manage special cases in trauma such as pregnancy, pediatrics, geriatrics, and
    special needs patients.
    
24. Analyze and manage environmental emergencies.
25. Synthesize pathophysiology, signs, symptoms, and mechanism of injury into management of
    the critically injured trauma patient.