EMT Refresher Class: Section C - Trauma Assessment and Management

COMPETENCIES

Station 1

Student shall correctly determine when and how to perform pediatric immobilization (commercial device, in car seat–intact and compromised)

Station 2

Student shall properly perform:

• Securing a trauma patient via standing backboard, using C-collar, spider straps, quick clips, cravats
• Helmet removal
• Securing, lifting and moving the adult and special population geriatric patient

Station 3

Student shall perform the correct management technique for:

• Closed soft tissue injury (RICES), open soft tissue injury, open chest wound, open abdominal wound, impaled object, burns, tourniquets
• Stabilizing injuries using rigid splints, air splint, vacuum splint, traction splint, MAST

Station 4

Student shall perform the correct technique and verbalize the correct indications for:

• Spinal immobilization using a vest-style device and C-collar
• Rapid extrication

Scenario Skills Evaluation

• One shall be a pediatric patient and one shall be an adult patient
• Team of two or three EMTs
• Proper equipment and realistic scenario describing the circumstances of the patient’s injuries
• Properly perform a complete patient assessment, including vital signs and HPI, to critically decide on appropriate patient management using O2 administration (proper device), airway adjuncts, splinting, bandaging and movement from a carrying device (i.e., stair chair, flexible stretcher, long board, vest-type device, scoop-style stretcher, etc.) to securing on a stretcher, and properly loading the patient into the ambulance.

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Event Type: EMT & EMS

Keyword: health professionals

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