Essentials in Emergency Medicine

Catalog description

(Only for students enrolled at the Middletown campus)This course will explore the diagnostic and treatment options of severely injured and critically ill patients. Students are taught the key points of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features and differential diagnosis of many disease entities, as they may present in the Emergency Department. Topics include but are not limited to acute respiratory, toxicology, environmental, pediatric, and endocrine emergencies. In addition, burn care as well as child and elder abuse are also discussed. Students are also required to complete Basic Life Support as well as Advanced Cardiac Life Support during this course in order to progress to the clinical year.