2014 - 2015 General Catalogue 
    
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2014 - 2015 General Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EMS 242. Paramedic Patient Assessment (3)


This course provides the knowledge and skills needed to perform a comprehensive patient assessment, make initial management decisions, and to communicate assessment findings and patient care verbally and in writing.  Content areas include airway management, history taking, techniques of the physical examination, patient assessment, clinical decision making, communications, documentation, and assessment based management. Prerequisites: EMS 189, EMS 240, EMS 243, EMS 244, and EMS 245. Corequisites: EMS 241, EMS 246, and EMS 248. Offered at the Alabama Fire College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.