Shock and Trauma for the EMT

Catalog description

This course is designed to prepare EMT students to apply pre-hospital emergency care to patients who have sustained injuries resulting from various mechanisms of injury. These mechanisms include abdominal and genitourinary trauma; orthopedic trauma; soft tissue trauma; head, facial, neck, and spine trauma; and nervous system trauma. Instructors will cover special considerations in trauma-related injuries, including the physiology of shock, 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.