Advanced Practice in Patient Care for the Critical Care Paramedic EMSP 2810

This course provides opportunities to apply advanced practice knowledge and techniques to the care and transportation of critical patients based on comprehensive assessment findings for the following: a critically ill patient; a patient in shock, respiratory failure or arrest, cardiac failure or arrest, and post resuscitation management; and a critically injured patient. In addition, it provides an advanced knowledge of growth, development, and aging and assessment findings to provide advanced care and transportation for a patient with special needs. Topics include: Geriatrics; Pediatric; Maternal and Fetal Medicine; Neurology; Immunology; Infectious Disease; Endocrine Disorders; Cardiovascular; Toxicology; Respiratory; Hematology; Genitourinary/Renal; Shock and Resuscitation; Chest Trauma; Abdominal and Genitourinary Trauma; Orthopedic Trauma; Head, Facial, Neck, and Spine Trauma: Nervous System Trauma; and Integration of Medical/Trauma Assessments.

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