ATTR 521Immediate & Emergency Care

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This course prepares students with the knowledge and skills needed to evaluate and manage patients with urgent conditions, including triaging conditions that are life threatening or otherwise emergent. Topics included (but are not limited to) the following conditions: cardiac, respiratory, and cervical spine compromise, environmental conditions, traumatic brain injury, fractures and dislocations, exertional sickling, rhabdomyolysis, hyponatremia, diabetes, drug overdose, wounds, testicular injury, and other musculoskeletal injuries.