Emergency and Surgical Principles

Catalog description

This course will present the basics of surgical principles and the proper and acceptable techniques for performing the common clinical and technical skills needed for a PA in an emergency room, operating room, hospital, and primary care setting. This course will use simulation activities to provide the PA student with an overview of common life- threatening or urgent medical conditions seen in the Emergency Department. This includes the prompt recognition and triage of life-threatening conditions and their immediate management and/or stabilization and trauma management. The role of the PA in the pre-operative, intraoperative, and post-operative time period will be reviewed. This course builds upon and fosters integration of information from previous courses, stressing the presentation and management of common problems in an emergency and hospital setting.