Trauma Care Lab - EMS 138 at Blue Ridge Community College
https://courses.vccs.edu/colleges/brcc/courses/EMS138-TraumaCareLab
Effective: 2019-08-01
Course Description
Focuses on the skills required for the assessment and management of patients with traumatic injury.
Laboratory 2 hours. Total 2 hours per week.
1 credits
The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.
General Course Purpose
The purpose of this course is to teach the student principles of care and management of patients complaining of traumatic injury.
Course Prerequisites/Corequisites
Prerequisite: Current Virginia EMT and CPR certification as approved by the Virginia Office of EMS. Corequisite: EMS 137.
Course Objectives
- Perform a minimum of two (2) trauma physical assessments on an adult patient in the laboratory setting.
- Perform a minimum of two (2) trauma physical assessments on an adult patient in a scenario.
- Demonstrate competency in initiating intravenous therapy in a minimum of five (5) scenarios.
- Demonstrate competency administering an intravenous bolus.
- Demonstrate competency in a performing needle cricothyrotomy on a minimum of (2) patients in a laboratory setting.
- Demonstrate competency in performing endotracheal intubation on a minimum of (2) adult patients suffering traumatic injury in the laboratory setting.
- Demonstrate competency in initiating an intraosseous infusion in a minimum of two (2) scenarios.
- Demonstrate competency in the use of basic trauma management skills in the laboratory setting
Major Topics to be Included
- Trauma Patient Assessment
- Considerations in traumatic injuries
- Systematic approach
- Rapid trauma assessment
- Focused trauma assessment
- Trauma Patient Management
- Use of intravenous fluids
- Consideration of intraosseous use
- Consideration of intraosseous use
- Endotracheal intubation on a trauma patient
- Basic Trauma Skills
- Spinal immobilization (supine patient)
- Spinal immobilization (seated patient)
- Joint splinting
- Long bone splinting
- Traction splinting
- Hemorrhage control