EMT 142 - Paramedic 2

• Roles and Responsibilities
  • Discuss the ethics associated with providing advanced life support care.
  • Exhibit professional behavior during patient interaction.
  • Discuss and value the importance of personal wellness in EMS and serve as a healthy role model for peers.
• Substance Abuse
  • Describe the pathophysiology of commonly used drugs.
  • Identify the signs and symptoms related to the most commonly abused drugs.
  • Identify the abnormal findings in assessment with the clinical significance in patients using the most commonly abused drugs.
  • Differentiate among the various treatments and pharmacological interventions in the management of the most commonly abused drugs.
  • Integrate pathophysiological principles and the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement a treatment plan for patients using the most commonly abused drugs.
• Behavioral Emergencies
  • Integrate the assessment findings to formulate a field impressions and implement a treatment plan for the patient who has sustained severe psychiatric event.
  • Identify with patient who has sustained abuse, assault, or a psychiatric emergency.
  • Describe and demonstrate safe empathetic competence in caring for patients with behavioral emergencies.
  • Integrate pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement a treatment plan for the patient with toxicological emergency.
• Neurologic Medical Emergencies
  • Describe the incidence, morbidity, and mortality of patients with neurological emergency.
  • Integrate the pathophysiological principles and assessment finding to formulate a field impression and implement a treatment plan for the patient with a transient ischemic attack, epilepsy, seizures, non-specific coma, and altered level of consciousness, syncope, weakness, and headache.
• Respiratory Emergencies
  • Identify common pathological events that affect the pulmonary system.
  • Review the pharmacological preparations that paramedics use for management of respiratory diseases and conditions.
  • Review the pharmacological preparations used in managing patients with respiratory diseases that may be prescribed by physicians.
  • Identify the epidemiology, anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology assessment findings and management for respiratory emergencies.
• Cardiovascular Emergencies
  • Describes the incidence, morbidity, and mortality of patients with cardiovascular problems.
  • Integrate the pathophysiology and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement a treatment plan for patients experiencing acute pulmonary edema, congestive heart failure, and cardiac. tamponade.
  • Describe the pharmacological management of a patient with a cardiac problem.
  • Demonstrate competency in ECG rhythm, pacing, defibrillation and synchronized cardioversion.
• Gastrointestinal Emergencies
  • Describe the incidence, morbidity, and mortality of patients with abdominal emergencies.
  • Describe the focused and detailed assessment of the gastrointestinal system.
  • Discuss the real and potential causes of abdominal pain.
  • Discuss the general system pathophysiology, assessment, and management of the patient experiencing appendicitis, pancreatitis, gallbladder disease, ulcers, and bowel obstruction.
  • Discuss the general system pathophysiology, assessment, and management of the geriatric patient with gastrointestinal problems.
  • Integrate pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with a gastrointestinal or solid organ disease.
• Endocrine Emergencies
  • Describe the incidence, morbidity, and mortality of patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes.
  • Integrate the pathophysiology and assessment finding to formulate a field impression and implement a treatment plan for patients experiencing diabetic comas, insulin shock, and nonketotic hyperglycemia.
  • Describe the pharmacological management of a patient with a hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia.
  • Demonstrate competency in subcutaneous insulin administration, 50% Dextrose in Water intravenous and intramuscular Glucagon and glucose monitoring.
  • Discuss the pathophysiology, assessment, and management of the patient experiencing diabetes mellitus, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, and diabetic ketoacidosis, adrenal insufficiency, thyrotoxicosis, myxedema, Cushing’s Syndrome.
  • Discuss the pathophysiology, assessment, and management of the geriatric patients with diabetes (type 2).
• Urological Emergencies
  • Apply epidemiology to develop prevention strategies for urological emergencies.
  • Integrate pathophysiological principles to the assessment of a patient with abdominal pain.
  • Integrate assessment findings and patient history information to accurately differentiate between pain of urogenital emergency and that of other organs.
  • Develop, execute, and evaluate a treatment plan based on the field impression made in the assessment.
  • Discuss the general system pathophysiology, assessment and management of the patient experiencing acute and chronic renal failure, urinary stones, and urinary tract infection.
• Environmental Emergencies
  • Discuss the general system pathophysiology, assessment, and management of environmental emergencies in patients across the age spectrum.
  • Describe the pathology, assessment, and management of heat and cold related disorders in patients across the age spectrum.
  • Describe the pathology, assessment, and management of near drowning in patients across the age spectrum.
  • Integrate pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient experiencing an environmental emergency.
• Toxicological Emergencies
  • Discuss common causative agents, pharmacology, assessment findings and management for a patient with food poisoning.
  • Discuss common offending organisms, pharmacology, assessment findings and management for a patient with a bite or sting.
  • Integrate pathophysiological principles of the patient with a toxic substance exposure.
  • Differentiate between toxic substance emergencies based on assessment findings.
  • Integrate abnormal findings in the assessment with the clinical significance in the patient exposed to a toxic substance.
  • Develop a patient management plan based on field impression in the patient exposed to a toxic substance.
• Allergic and Anaphylactic Reactions
  • Describe the incidence, morbidity, and mortality of patients with an allergic or anaphylactic reaction.
  • Integrate the pathophysiological and assessment finding to formulate a field impression and implement a treatment plan for patients with an allergic or anaphylactic reaction.
• Patients with Special Challenges
  • Integrate pathophysiological and psychosocial principles to adapt the assessment and treatment plan for diverse patients and those who face physical, mental, social and financial challenges.
• Geriatric Emergencies
  • Differentiate the differences between young adult and the geriatric patient’s anatomy, physiology, and assessment findings.
  • Describe the general pathophysiology, and demonstrate the assessment, and management of the geriatric patient.
  • Identify the effects of the aging process on healing and immunity.
  • Identify with the geriatric patient experiencing a medical emergency.
  • Recognize the socioeconomic situations that impact on the health of the older patient.
  • Identify the effects of the aging process on healing and immunity.
  • Integrate pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the geriatric patient.
• Trauma
  • Describe the general system pathophysiology, assessment, and management of hemorrhage and shock.
  • Describe the system pathophysiology, assessment and management of burn injuries.
  • Describe the general system pathophysiology, assessment and management of multi-system trauma.
  • Demonstrate the practical skills of assessing and managing a traumatic injury.
  • Identify the patient who has experienced a traumatic injury.
  • Describe the general system pathophysiology, assessment, and management of injuries affecting the geriatric patient.
  • Describe the general system pathophysiology, assessment and management of injuries affecting the pediatric patient.
• Gynecological Emergencies
  • Review the anatomy and physiology of the female reproductive system.
  • Integrate pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the female patient experiencing a gynecologic emergency.
• Obstetrical and Neonatal Emergencies
  • Differentiate assessment findings between the normal and pathological events during pregnancy and labor and delivery.
  • Integrate pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the female patient experiencing labor and delivery.
  • Describe the general assessment, and management of the neonate following normal delivery.
  • Integrate the pathophysiology and assessment findings to formulate a field management plan for the neonate or premature infant experiencing: meconium aspiration, apnea, bradycardia, respiratory distress, cyanosis, seizures, and diaphragmatic hernia.
  • Discuss the pathophysiology, assessment, and management of the neonate experiencing: fever, hypothermia, hypoglycemia, vomiting, diarrhea, common birth injuries, and cardiac arrest.
  • Discuss the pathophysiology, assessment, and management of the neonate post cardiac arrest.
  • Discuss your interactions with the family of the critically ill or congenitally deformed neonate.
• Pediatric Emergencies
  • Describe the general pathophysiology, assessment, and management of the pediatric patient.
  • Discuss the pathophysiology, assessment, and management of the pediatric patient experiencing: respiratory distress/failure, hypoperfusion, dysrhythmias, neurological emergencies, trauma, abuse and neglect in infants and children.
  • Discuss the pathophysiology, assessment, and management of the pediatric patients experiencing: special health care needs including technology assisted children and SIDS.
  • Describe you interaction with the family of the critically ill pediatric patient.