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EMS 247 - Wilderness Emergency Care


Description:
This course provides lecture and practical skills instruction on the basic elements of emergency medical care in a wilderness or otherwise austere environment.  It contains content that is supplemental to EMS 245. Course will be offered every year (Summer).

Credits: (3)

Learner Outcomes, Activities and Assessments

Learner Outcome

Activity (optional)

Assessment

Define the goals, applicability, and limitations to wilderness emergency care.

Students will list the common goals of wilderness emergency care and detail its limitations and benefits.

In-class assignment and exams

Demonstrate the proper wilderness emergency care patient assessment, including the head-to-toe examination.

Working in groups, students will demonstrate the standardized procedure for conducting a head-to-toe assessment in the austere environment.

Faculty will witness the skill performance and notate details in accordance to a standardized skill checklist.  In class assignments and exams will be employed as well.

Perform the complete SAMPLE history-taking process for patients in the wilderness setting in conjunction with the physical examination.

Working in groups, students will demonstrate the standardized procedure for obtaining a full history from a patient in the austere environment.

Faculty will witness the student during a simulated patient interview and notate details in accordance to a standardized skill checklist.  In class assignments and exams will be employed as well.

Translate the subjective findings from the history-taking process and the objective findings from the patient assessment into appropriate SOAP notes.

Students will collect all subjective data from the history-taking process and the objective data from the physical assessment process and document those findings into a standardized SOAP format in the verbal and written forms.

In class assignments as well as written exams.

Explain the essential aspects of each of the commonly encountered wilderness medical and trauma emergencies.

Students will detail the basic pathophysiologies, basic clinical presentations, and the general complications associated with common medical and traumatic emergencies.

In class assignments and written examinations.

Explain how to prevent common wilderness emergencies and safety risks.

Students will describe how most wilderness emergencies occur, what risk factors are often present, what safety and medical sequelae often result, and how best to mitigate those factors.

In class assignments and written examinations.

List the criteria inherent to the evacuation of a patient from a wilderness environment.

Students will detail each of the criteria necessary to determine the urgency of a wilderness emergency, classify the nature of the emergency, and identify the criteria necessary for the evacuation process.

Faculty will witness the student during a simulated patient scenario and notate details in accordance to a standardized evacuation procedure checklist.  In class assignments and exams will be employed as well.

Demonstrate how to effectively treat, package, and evacuate a patient from the remote wilderness environment.

Students, working in groups, will evaluate, treat, and package a simulated patient in preparation for evacuation and transport from the wilderness environment.

Faculty will witness the student during a simulated patient scenario and notate details in accordance to a standardized skill checklist.  In class assignments and exams will be employed as well.

Demonstrate how to effectively treat patients suffering from central nervous system, spinal column, extremity, musculoskeletal, and soft tissue injuries.

Students, working in groups, will evaluate and treat a simulated patient suffering from trauma injuries and prepare them for evacuation and transport from the wilderness environment.

Faculty will witness the student during a simulated patient scenario and notate details in accordance to a standardized skill checklist.  In class assignments and exams will be employed as well.

Demonstrate how to effectively treat patients suffering from heat, cold, closed blunt force trauma, drowning, envenomation, fracture, laceration, and puncture injuries as well as other, related environmental emergencies.

Students, working in groups, will evaluate and treat a simulated patient suffering from environmental emergencies and prepare them for evacuation and transport from the wilderness environment.

Faculty will witness the student during a simulated patient scenario and notate details in accordance to a standardized skill checklist.  In class assignments and exams will be employed as well.

Demonstrate how to effectively treat patients suffering from a variety of medical emergencies in the wilderness environment.

Students, working in groups, will evaluate and treat a simulated patient suffering from a medical emergency and prepare them for evacuation and transport from the wilderness environment.

Faculty will witness the student during a simulated patient scenario and notate details in accordance to a standardized skill checklist.  In class assignments and exams will be employed as well.





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