EMS 62B: PARAMEDIC COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE & PSYCHOMOTOR IIIB
Foothill College Course Outline of Record
Heading | Value |
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Effective Term: | Summer 2022 |
Units: | 3 |
Hours: | 1 lecture, 6.5 laboratory per week (90 total per quarter) |
Prerequisite: | EMS 61A and 61B. |
Advisory: | Not open to students with credit in EMTP 62B. |
Degree & Credit Status: | Degree-Applicable Credit Course |
Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
Transferable: | CSU |
Grade Type: | Letter Grade Only |
Repeatability: | Not Repeatable |
Description
Paramedic skills presented: proper hand washing; personal protective equipment; patient assessment; intravenous access; intraosseous infusion; pharmacology; medication administration; airway management: endotracheal intubation, oropharyngeal airway, nasopharyngeal airway, suctioning, dual lumen airways; advanced cardiac life support ambulance 911 call simulations and case studies; synchronized cardioversion; transcutaneous pacing; defibrillation; cardiovascular/chest pain emergency 911 call simulations; end tidal carbon dioxide monitoring; capnography; 12 lead ECG interpretation. Emphasis on trauma management and operations. Intended for students in the Paramedic Program; enrollment is limited to students accepted in the program.
Course Objectives
The student will be able to:
- Demonstrate proper hygiene techniques and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
- Demonstrate the various techniques to establish intravenous routes.
- Exhibit different basic and advanced airway management techniques.
- Demonstrate an understanding of different components of cardiac monitor devices.
- Demonstrate the different techniques of medication administration.
- Demonstrate through simulated scenarios how to manage scenes and patient care.
- Demonstrate the proper techniques for transferring patient care.
- Demonstrate proper management of the trauma patient.
Course Content
- Proper hygiene techniques
- Hand washing techniques
- Proper use of Personal Protective Equipment
- N-95 mask
- P-100 mask
- Donning and doffing medical gloves
- Establishing intravenous routes
- IV techniques
- IO techniques
- Setting up, starting IVs
- Basic and advanced airway management techniques
- NPAs, OPAs
- Suctioning
- Endotrachel intubation
- Tracheotomy care
- Multi lumen devices
- O2 therapy
- Cardiac monitor devices
- 4 lead
- 12 lead
- Cardioversion
- Pacing
- Defibrillation
- EtCO2
- Pulse Ox
- Medication administration
- Medication packaging
- Routes of administration
- Medication calculations
- Simulated scenarios how to manage scenes and patient care
- Scene approach and control
- General impression
- History and physical
- Working diagnosis
- Appropriate treatment
- Transferring patient care
- Documentation
- Radio report
- Verbal report
- Trauma management
- Bleeding control
- Fluid replacement
- Bandaging and splinting
- Cervical spine precautions
- Environmental emergencies
Lab Content
- Proper hand washing, Personal Protective Equipment
- Patient assessment
- Intravenous access, intraosseous infusion
- Pharmacology, medication administration
- Airway management, endotracheal intubation, oropharyngeal airway, nasopharyngeal airway, suctioning, dual lumen airways
- Advanced cardiac life support ambulance
- 911 call simulations and case studies
- Trauma management
Special Facilities and/or Equipment
1. Paramedic lab facilities
2. Paramedic ambulance equipment: manikin (that allows cricothyrotomy, pleural decompression, intubation, intraosseous infusion, intravenous access, intramuscular injection and subcutaneous injection); medication box with all paramedic medications; respiratory bag with airway management equipment; ECG monitor/defibrillator/pacer; suction; immobilization equipment
3. Ambulance simulator
4. Base station simulator equipment
5. When portions of the course offered online, students need on-going access to computer with email and internet access
2. Paramedic ambulance equipment: manikin (that allows cricothyrotomy, pleural decompression, intubation, intraosseous infusion, intravenous access, intramuscular injection and subcutaneous injection); medication box with all paramedic medications; respiratory bag with airway management equipment; ECG monitor/defibrillator/pacer; suction; immobilization equipment
3. Ambulance simulator
4. Base station simulator equipment
5. When portions of the course offered online, students need on-going access to computer with email and internet access
Method(s) of Evaluation
Methods of Evaluation may include but are not limited to the following:
Laboratory psychomotor skill test
National-style oral examinations of 911 call simulations
National-style paramedic affective evaluation: observe student behavior, document, and counsel student
Written assignments, including prehospital patient care report forms
Method(s) of Instruction
Methods of Instruction may include but are not limited to the following:
Students will practice skills in preparation for the NREMT skills testing
Representative Text(s) and Other Materials
Foothill College Paramedic Program. Student Lab Manual. 2021.
Types and/or Examples of Required Reading, Writing, and Outside of Class Assignments
- Read 1-6 books throughout the quarter on paramedic: anatomy and physiology, pediatric advanced life support, respiratory emergencies, etc. Weekly reading assignments 60-100 pages
- Writing assignments: weekly essays are assigned; for example, compare and contrast pulmonary edema secondary to left heart failure and cardiogenic shock
- Workbook/writing assignments are given each week and include: matching, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, identify, ambulance calls, true/false, short answer, word find, place photos in order, fill-in-the-table, problem solving, labeling diagram
- Medical research
- Write prehospital patient care report form
Discipline(s)
Emergency Medical Technologies