EMT & Paramedic Essentials is provided by through the faculty of Medical Emergency Education.
EMT & Paramedic Essentials is directed toward exposing the EMT to the concepts and techniques of pre-hospital care at the paramedic level. This course allows those prehospital providers with little or no working experience in EMS to be evaluated in their performance, as well as their knowledge.
Course Objectives:
• Basic Drug Comprehension
• Basic ECG recognition
• Atrial Dysrhythmias
• Ventricular Dysrhythmias
• Atrioventricular Node Dysrhythmias
• Junctional Node Dysrhythmias
• Pacer Rhythms
• Cardiac Arrest Dysrhythmias
• Immediate Life Support
• Causes and prevention of cardiorespiratory arrest.
• The ABCDE approach
• CAS Demo
• ALS Algorithm
• Initial resuscitation and defibrillation
• Airway and breathing
• Simulation
• Transportation of the Casualty
• Different types of stretchers
• Stretcher Drill
• Casualty Extraction Summary and debrief