Introduction to Emergency Medical Services

Catalog description

Introduces the student to Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Explores the career pathways for EMTs and Paramedics. Examines the history, structure, and function of our modern-day EMS system. Includes provider roles and responsibilities, operations, safety, legal considerations, and career opportunities. In addition, this class provides a foundation for the EMT certification course by including a review of anatomy and physiology; where things are and how they are supposed to work, pathophysiology; what happens when disease or injury causes those systems to fail, and patient assessment; how EMS providers evaluate for those conditions and make treatment and transport decisions.