Emergency Care and Response

Catalog description

SMED 5301 provides the skills needed by health care professionals who are trained to respond to breathing, cardiac, and other first aid emergencies. This includes the use of automated external defibrillation (AED), oxygen, suctioning, and airway management devices to care for a victim of breathing or cardiac emergencies. Additional emergency care topics will include emergency action planning; conducting pre-participation physical examinations; assessing emergency situations; administering emergency oxygen; assessing and caring for anaphylaxis and anaphylactic shock; drug overdose, asthma, seizures, diabetes, and environmental illness and injury; controlling bleeding and caring for open wounds; splinting; spine boarding; and evaluating, assessing, diagnosing concussions. Other emergency topics may be included the program's discretion.