ICP 1050 Trauma Care (Copy)

Course Information

Pre/Corequisites

Prerequisite: Admission into the Paramedic Program. All Classes must be taken in sequence.

Institutional Core Competencies

• Communication - Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate and effective interactions with others to achieve their personal, academic, and professional objectives.
• Critical and Creative Thinking - Students will be able to demonstrate purposeful thinking with the goal of using a creative process for developing and building upon ideas and/or the goal of using a critical process for the analyzing and evaluating of ideas.

Course Competencies

1. Integrate trauma pathophysiology and kinematics into patient assessment and clinical decision-making.
2. Assess trauma patients to identify actual and potential injuries based on presentation and mechanism.
3. Formulate field impressions using patient history, assessment findings, and injury patterns.
4. Implement management plans for patients with traumatic injuries and trauma-related emergencies.
5. Apply hemorrhage control, shock management, and resuscitative interventions in trauma care.
6. Manage thermal, inhalation, chemical, electrical, and radiation injuries using current trauma care principles.
7. Demonstrate trauma management and documentation in patient care scenarios.
8. Communicate trauma assessment findings and treatment priorities using accepted EMS(Emergency Medical Service) formats.