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Sep 23, 2024
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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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