Shock & Trauma for EMT

This course is designed to prepare the EMT student to apply pre-hospital emergency care to patients who have sustained injuries resulting from various mechanisms of injury including:Abdominal and genitourinary trauma; Orthopedic trauma; Soft Tissue trauma; Head, Facial, Neck, and Spine Trauma and Nervous System trauma.Special considerations in trauma related injuries will be presented including the physiology of shock as well as multi-system trauma and environmental emergencies.Topics include:Shock and Resuscitation; Trauma Overview; Bleeding; Chest Trauma; Abdominal and genitourinary Trauma; Orthopedic Trauma; Soft Tissue Trauma; Head, Facial, Neck, and Sprine Trauma; Nervous System Trauma; Special Considerations in Trauma; Environmental Emergencies; and Multi-System Trauma.

Required textbooks and materials (the following are one-time purchases required for all classes in the program):

• Advanced EMT: A Clinical Reasoning Approach, ISBN 978-0135030431, $141
• Advanced Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured: Student Workbook, ISBN 978-0763792640, $82.64
• EMS Field Guide, $25
• Uniform, $115