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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 (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer).

Credits: (2)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • Define the goals, applicability, and limitations to wilderness emergency care.
  • Demonstrate the proper wilderness emergency care patient assessment, including the head-to-toe examination.
  • Perform the complete SAMPLE history-taking process for patients in the wilderness setting in conjunction with the physical examination.
  • Translate the subjective findings from the history-taking process and the objective findings from the patient assessment into appropriate SOAP notes.
  • Explain the essential aspects of each of the commonly encountered wilderness medical and trauma emergencies.
  • List the criteria inherent to the evacuation of a patient from a wilderness environment.
  • Demonstrate how to effectively treat, package, and evacuate a patient from the remote wilderness environment.
  • 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.
  • Demonstrate how to effectively treat patients suffering from a variety of medical emergencies in the wilderness environment.
Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
4/5/18



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