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 provide students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide evidence-based, patient-centred care to patients suffering a range of medical conditions, at a foundational paramedic level. Concepts of thorough and systematic patient assessment, and best-practice treatment and management techniques will be covered, and practically demonstrated. Students will also be introduced to a range of paramedic medications and the quality use of them, as well as the specific medical conditions that affect special population groups, such as paediatric patients.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Recognise the signs and symptoms and analyse patterns of illness in paramedicine
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Apply the principles of the quality use of medications in contemporary paramedicine, to a patient suffering a medical condition, at a foundational paramedic level
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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
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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
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Work as a team to safely and effectively deliver comprehensive care to the patient suffering a medical condition at foundational paramedic level

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Assumed knowledge

Resuscitation at Basic Life support level.