EMT 12 Health Providers BLS/First Aid (0.5)
Lec-16
Credit, Degree Applicable
P/NP Available
Instruction and practice in the identification and care of life threatening and serious traumatic, medical, and environmental emergencies including respiratory and cardiac emergencies for adults, children, and infants. Emphasis is also on control of life threatening emergencies such as bleeding and shock. Identification and care of serious secondary survey conditions and situations involving special populations such as children and the elderly. American Heart Association "Healthcare Provider CPR/AED" and City College of San Francisco First Aid cards will be awarded to those who qualify.
CSU
Formerly HLT 12. Students enrolled in this course will be assessed a $5 lab/material fee for CPR and First Aid cards and certifications.
Offered on occasion
Students enrolled in this course will be assessed a $5 lab/material fee for CPR and First Aid cards and certifications.
After successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Outcome 1: Define the purpose of the emergency medical services (EMS) System
- Outcome 2: Identify four ways in which disease are transmitted and give an example of how each can occur
- Outcome 3: Identify at least six basic universal precautions for protecting themselves against infectious diseases
- Outcome 4: List four emergency action principles
- Outcome 5: Demonstrate how to do a primary survey
- Outcome 6: List ten conditions that require summnoning more advance medical personnel in an emergency
- Outcome 7: Demonstrate how to administer a secondary survey
- Outcome 8: Describe how to care for a victim of respiratory distress
- Outcome 9: Demonstrate how to provide rescue breathing for an adult, child, and infant
- Outcome 10: Demonstrate how to care for a conscious adult, child, infant with an obstructed airway
- Outcome 11: Demonstrate how to care for an unconscious adult, child, infant with an obstructed airway
- Outcome 12: Demonstrate how to use a resuscitation mark and other breathing devices
- Outcome 13: List four signs and symptoms of a heart attack
- Outcome 14: Describe how to care for a heart attack victim
- Outcome 15: Demonstrate how to perform one-rescuer CPR for an adult, a child, and an infant
- Outcome 16: Demonstrate how to perform two-rescuer CPR for an adult, child, and infant
- Outcome 17: Describe and demonstrate how to use an automated external defibrillator in the Chain of Survival (early access, early CPR and early defibrillator)
- Outcome 18: Identify and demonstrate or describe care for the traumatic emergencies including internal and external bleeding, shock, open and closed wounds, burns, and musculoskeletal injuries
- Outcome 19: Identify and demonstrate or describe care for medical emergencies such as fainting, seizure, diabetic emergencies, poisonings, stroke, and heart attack
- Outcome 20: Identify and demonstrate or describe care for medical emergencies such as fainting, seizure, diabetic emergencies, poisonings, stroke, and heart attack
- Outcome 21: Identify and demonstrate or describe care for environmental mental emergencies such as heat and cold related emergencies
- Outcome 22: Identify and demonstrate or describe care for emergency situations involving special populations such as children