EMS 451 - Advanced Trauma Care

Description:
This course provides instruction in the advanced elements of trauma care, including trauma triage, fluid resuscitation, trauma arrest management, multi-system management, thorascotomy, blood products and trauma of the head, neck, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, and extremity. By department permission.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: admission to the paramedical major or program.

Credits: (4)

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

Explain the principles of trauma care, trauma systems, and the role of EMS in trauma care.
Differentiate the kinematics of trauma to include; blunt force trauma, penetrating trauma, epidemiology of trauma, the physiological consequences and treatment of hemorrhage and shock in trauma patients, and shock trauma resuscitation.
Evaluate, identify and formulate the treatment of the pathophysiologies, symptomatologies of soft-tissue trauma, bums, musculoskeletal trauma, and trauma to the head, face, neck, spinal cord, thorax, and abdomen.
Apply and develop treatments of the advanced and contemporary concepts related to trauma care in both in-hospital and prehospital settings, as well as innovative aspects of trauma care awaiting approval.

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
1/20/2022

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:
Fall Locations: EllensburgSpring Locations: Online