Virginia's Community Colleges: EMS Operations

EMS Operations - EMS 210

https://courses.vccs.edu/courses/EMS210-EMSOperations

Effective: 2021-08-01

Course Description

Focuses on matters related to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) operations, incident and scene safety and awareness, triage, multiple and mass casualty incident operations and medical incident management (command and control of EMS incidents).

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 prepare the student in the theory and application of the following: medical incident management, multiple and mass casualty incident management, aeromedical operations, rescue awareness and operations, hazardous materials incident awareness, violent, active shooter and crime scene awareness and traffic incident management and to provide emergency medical services providers with a foundational and operational knowledge of the roles and responsibilities to ensure patient, public, and personnel safety. This course develops an awareness of principles, techniques and procedures necessary to safely and effectively manage an emergency scene. This course is required for students desiring to test for National Registry Paramedic certification.

Course Objectives

Describe the components of ground and air operations
Explain the principles of incident management
Differentiate types of triage methods used in EMS operations
Identify types of specialized rescue
Classify types of hazardous materials
Describe agents used in terrorism incidents
Classify types of disasters and appropriate response
Discuss procedures for responding to crime scenes

Major Topics to be Included

Ground and Air Operations

Principles of safely operating a ground ambulance
Operating on the Highway
Traffic Incident Management
Air Medical

Specialized Rescue Operations

Steps of specialized rescue
Components of vehicle extrication
Types of specialized rescue

Hazardous Materials

OSHA HAZWOPER regulation
Classification systems
Identifying hazardous materials
Operations at a hazardous materials scene

Terrorism

Terrorism response
Weapons of mass destruction
Chemical agents
Biologic agents
Radiological events

Disaster Response

Man-Made Disasters
Natural Disasters
Violent and Civil Unrest Incidents

Crime Scene Awareness

Responding to crime scenes
Methods of approaching a scene
Clandestine drug labs
Mass shootings
Preservation of evidence

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