Advanced Emergency Applications & Care

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide an intensive study of emergency care skills in ambulatory medicine with exposure to triaging and managing urgent and emergent medical procedures in catastrophic settings. Proper techniques for complex fractures and joint dislocations, application of specialty casting and splinting techniques, and interventions used during immobilization to address movement dysfunctions are addressed. The focus is on planning for, examining, and managing immediate, emergent, and acute situations, particularly for physically active individuals.