Overview

This topic introduces the student to the fundamentals of emergency care of medical emergencies in the pre-hospital setting. Students explore major medical problems and relate these to abnormalities in physiology. Emergency care skills at a basic life support level are introduced, together with basic principles of pharmacology.

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Aims

This topic aims to introduce the student to the complex arena of pre-hospital emergency care for patients with medical emergencies. The topic is divided into the following modules:

  • Moral, ethical and legal considerations of paramedicine
  • Scene Management
  • Patient Interviews
  • Patient Examination
  • The Deteriorating Patient
  • Introductory Pharmacology
  • The Altered Mental Status Patient
  • The Weak and Sick Patient
  • The Short of Breath Patient
  • The Patient With Chest Pain
  • The Patient With Gastrointestinal Distress

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
1.
Recognise the signs and symptoms and analyse patterns of illness in paramedicine
2.
Apply the principles of the quality use of medications in contemporary paramedicine, to a patient suffering a medical condition, at a foundational paramedic level
3.
Demonstrate safe and effective dynamic patient assessments, formulate an appropriate differential diagnosis and apply evidence-based management to a patient suffering a medical condition, at foundational paramedic level
4.
Develop reflective practice skills to deliver culturally and clinically safe patient care to a patient suffering a medical condition, across the lifespan, including adult and paediatric patients, at a foundational paramedic level
5.
Create an authentic medical patient presentation scenario, and work as a team to safely and effectively deliver comprehensive care at foundational paramedic level

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Assumed knowledge

Resuscitation at Basic Life support level.