EMCR-300 Advanced Emergency Medical Technician-Original
This course is a more complex course designed for professional rescuers who are interested in expanding and building on their knowledge and skills in the pre-hospital setting. The primary focus of the Advanced Emergency Medical Technician is to provide basic and limited advanced emergency medical care and transportation for critical and emergent patients who access the emergency medical system. This individual possesses the basic knowledge and skills necessary to provide patient care and transportation. Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians function as part of a comprehensive EMS response, under medical oversight. Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians perform interventions with the basic and advanced equipment typically found on an ambulance. The Advanced Emergency Medical Technician is a link from the scene to the emergency health care system. The Advanced Emergency Medical Technician’s scope of practice includes basic, limited advanced and pharmacological interventions to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with acute out-of-hospital medical and traumatic emergencies. Emergency care is based on assessment findings. Additionally, Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians provide care to minimize secondary injury and provide comfort to the patient and family while transporting the patient to an emergency care facility. Competencies include early recognition, assessment, treatment of the patient and use of advanced airway management and intravenous infusions, defibrillation and designated pharmacological interventions.
Prerequisite
just hold current NYS Emergency Medical Technician certification and maintain that certification throughout this entire course.
Course Learning Outcomes
- understand and apply comprehensive knowledge of EMS systems, safety/well -being of the advanced EMT: and medical/legal and ethical issues, which is intended to improve the health of EMS personnel, patients and the community
- Implement a comprehensive treatment/disposition plan for a patient with a cardiac/medical complaint within the scope of practice of an AEMT
- Demonstrate and interpret comprehensive knowledge of causes and pathophysiology into the management of cardiac arrest and peri-arrest states within the scope of an AEMT
- Identify and manage comprehensive knowledge of the causes and pathophysiology into the management of shock, respiratory failure or arrest with an emphasis on early intervention to prevent arres
- interpret and apply assessment findings with principles of epidemiology and pathophysiology to formulate a field impression to implement a comprehensive treatment/disposition plan for an acutely injured patient
- Demonstrate and apply knowledge of operational roles and responsibilities to ensure safe patient, public and personnel safety
- demonstrate knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of all human systems
- recognize comprehensive anatomical and medical terminology and abbreviations into the written and oral communications with colleagues and other health care professionals
- demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of major human systems
- understand and apply knowledge of life span development
- apply fundamental knowledge of principles of public health and epidemiology including public health emergencies, health promotion, and illness and injury prevention.
- apply fundamental knowledge of principles of public health and epidemiology including public health emergencies, health promotion, and illness and injury prevention
- Apply knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology into the assessment to
development and implement a treatment plan with the goal of assuring a patent airway, adequate mechanical ventilation, and respiration for patients of all ages
- Identify scene and patient assessment findings with knowledge of epidemiology and
pathophysiology to form a field impression through clinical reasoning and formulate a treatment plan