EMSP 1150 Shock and Trauma for the EMT
Prepares the EMT student to apply pre-hospital emergency care to patients who have sustained injuries resulting from various mechanisms of injury, including abdominal and genitourinary trauma; orthopedic trauma; soft tissue trauma; head, facial, neck, and spine trauma and nervous system trauma. Special considerations in trauma related injuries will be presented including the physiology of shock as well as multi-system trauma and environmental emergencies. Topics include shock and resuscitation; trauma overview; bleeding; chest trauma; abdominal and genitourinary trauma; orthopedic trauma; soft tissue trauma; head, facial, neck, and spine trauma; nervous system trauma; special considerations in trauma; environmental emergencies; and multi-system trauma.
Contact Hours
4
Prerequisite
Program Admission