- Advanced Patient Assessment Principles (3 Units)

Catalog description

Teaches the paramedic student to integrate scene and patient assessment findings with knowledge of epidemiology and pathophysiology to form a field impression. By utilizing a structured and organized assessment process with knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, life span development, and changes that occur to the human body with time, the students will learn to develop a list of differential diagnoses through clinical reasoning, along with the ability to modify the assessment as necessary to formulate a treatment plan for their patients. (Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in 531-911 EMS Fundamentals; 531-912 Paramedic Medical Principles; 531-914 Prehospital Pharmacology; 531-915 Paramedic Respiratory Management; 531-916 Paramedic Cardiology; 531-917 Paramedic Clinical Field 1)