EMT 224 - ALS Medical Emergencies

1. Perform a pragmatic approach for a medical patient.
2. Assessment and manage a medical patient through a formulation of a general impression.
3. Determine the patient’s stability.
4. Identify the possibilities of differential diagnoses and treatment plans.

1. Utilize findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with respiratory emergencies.
2. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with cardiovascular emergencies.
3. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with neurological emergencies.
4. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with endocrine emergencies.
5. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with an allergic and or anaphylactic reaction.
6. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with a toxic exposure.
7. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with abdominal-pelvic emergencies.
8. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with environmentally induced or exacerbated emergencies.
9. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with behavioral emergencies.
10. Utilize the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with gynecological emergencies.
11. Discuss common trends and changes in healthcare, and demonstrate the ability to integrate roles and responsibilities by formulating a field impression and implementing simulated patient care following guidelines, protocols, and standing orders.

1. Respiratory Emergencies
   1. Anatomy and physiology
   2. Respiratory pathophysiology and compensatory mechanisms throughout the levels of body organization
   3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for different respiratory emergencies
   4. Age-specific and cultural considerations
   5. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the patient with respiratory difficulties
   6. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
2. Cardiovascular Emergencies       
   1. Anatomy and physiology
   2. Cardiac, hematological, and vascular pathophysiology and compensatory mechanisms throughout the levels of body organization
   3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for different cardiac, hematological, and vascular emergencies
   4. Age-specific and cultural considerations
   5. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the patient with cardiovascular emergencies
   6. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
3. Neurological Emergencies
   1. Anatomy and physiology
   2. Neurological pathophysiology and compensatory mechanisms throughout the levels of body organization
   3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for different neurological emergencies
   4. Age-specific and cultural considerations
   5. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness/injury for the patient with neurological emergencies
   6. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
4. Endocrine Emergencies
   1. Anatomy and physiology
   2. Endocrine pathophysiology and compensatory mechanisms throughout the levels of body organization
   3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for different endocrine emergencies
   4. Age-specific and cultural considerations
   5. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the patient with endocrine emergencies
   6. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
5. Allergies and Anaphylaxis
   1. Anatomy and physiology of the immune system
   2. Immune system pathophysiology and compensatory mechanisms throughout the levels of body organization
   3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for generalized allergies
   4. Assessment and management-specific criteria for anaphylaxis
   5. Assessment and management-specific criteria for sepsis
   6. Age-specific and cultural considerations
   7. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the patient with neurological emergencies
   8. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
6. Toxic Exposures
   1. Toxins, routes of exposures, and societal impacts
   2. Review of anatomy and physiology for immune responses and homeostasis
   3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for ingested poisons
   4. Assessment and management-specific criteria for inhaled poisons
   5. Assessment and management-specific criteria for injected poisons
   6. Assessment and management-specific criteria for envenomation
   7. Assessment and management-specific criteria for surface-absorbed poisons
   8. Assessment and management-specific criteria for radiation exposures
   9. Classification, identification, safety protocols, and management of hazardous scenes
   10. Assessment and management of patients exposed to hazardous materials
   11. Mass casualty incidents and triage
   12. Weapons of mass destruction and biological weapons
7. Abdominal and Urologic Emergencies
   1. Anatomy and physiology
   2. Pathophysiology and compensatory mechanisms throughout the levels of body organization
   3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for different abdominal-pelvic emergencies
   4. Age-specific and cultural considerations
   5. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness and injury for the patient with abdominal-pelvic emergencies
   6. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
8. Environmental Emergencies
   1. Homeostasis and thermal regulation
   2. Thermal emergencies
   3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for specific thermal emergencies
   4. Water-related emergencies
   5. Assessment and management-specific criteria for drowning and aspiration emergencies
   6. Electrocution and lightning strikes
   7. Assessment and management-specific criteria for electrocution and triage
   8. Age-specific and cultural considerations
   9. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness/injury for patients suffering from an environmental emergency
   10. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
9. Behavioral Disorders, Crisis Prevention and Intervention
   1. Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system
   2. Pathophysiology
   3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for different behavioral emergencies
   4. Age-specific and cultural considerations
   5. Safety approach, de-escalation, and non-harmful restraint of the acting-out patient
   6. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness/injury for the patient with behavioral emergencies
   7. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
10. Gynecological Emergencies
    1. Anatomy and physiology
    2. Pathophysiology
    3. Assessment and management-specific criteria for different gynecological emergencies
    4. Age-specific and cultural considerations
    5. Formulating a field impression and implementing a treatment plan based on the mechanism(s) of illness/injury for the patient with gynecological emergencies
    6. Guidelines, protocols, and standing orders
11. Integration
    1. Current trends and changes
    2. Demonstration of skills and knowledge competencies