Emergency Medical Services

This credential documents the essential competencies involved in managing emergency trauma including understanding the physics related to various types of accidents leading to trauma, understanding the special considerations needed for trauma care as a first responder, understanding the characteristics associated with various types of traumatic injuries, assessing a victim with various traumatic injuries and multisystem injuries, and handing a variety of patient types.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the assessment and management of patients with abdominal, gynecological, genitourinary, and renal emergencies including the associated pathophysiology, common signs and symptoms of specific disorders, and appropriate medical emergency care.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the proper assessment and management of a patientÍs airway including respiratory anatomy and physiology, common pathophysiology, signs and symptoms of hypoxia in adults and children, air way sounds, procedures for establishing and maintaining different types of airways, use of oxygen, proper procedures and precautions for using artificial ventilation, and safety precautions.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the appropriate, safe, and legal use of EMS transport vehicles including policies and procedures for use, factors that interfere with safe use, precautions for post-run maintenance, appropriate use of air rescue, and general safety behaviors in and around rescue vehicles.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe basic anatomy and physiology including the systems of the human body as well as the associated directional terminology.

This credential documents the essential competencies involved in managing emergency trauma including understanding the physics related to various types of accidents leading to trauma, understanding the special considerations needed for trauma care as a first responder, understanding the characteristics associated with various types of traumatic injuries, assessing a victim with various traumatic injuries and multisystem injuries, and handing a variety of patient types.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the emergency assessment and specific care procedures for burns including the effects of burns on the body, the classification of burns, the considerations in assessment of burn severity, the types of burns, the mechanism of a burn injury, and the medical procedures to be followed when caring for burns.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the emergency assessment and specific care procedures for eye, face, and neck trauma including the associated anatomy and physiology, the types of injuries and mechanisms for injury, and the procedures for assessment, emergency care and special handling, reassessment, and documentation.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the emergency assessment and specific care procedures for head trauma including the associated anatomy and physiology, the types of head trauma injuries, management of factors that can worsen traumatic brain injuries, the goals of emergency treatment, and the procedures for assessment, emergency care, reassessment, and documentation.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the emergency assessment and specific care procedures for musculoskeletal trauma including the anatomy and physiology of the musculoskeletal system, the types of injuries and associated signs and symptoms, the type of forces that may cause injury, and the procedures for caring for these types of injuries.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the emergency assessment and specific care procedure for soft tissue injuries including bleeding, shock, chest injuries, abdominal injuries, impaled objects, amputations, large neck injuries, and bleeding from the nose, ears, and mouth.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the emergency assessment and specific care procedures for spinal column and spinal cord trauma including the associated anatomy and physiology, the types of injuries and mechanisms for injury, and the procedures for assessment, emergency care and special handling, reassessment, and documentation.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the basis for common pathophysiological conditions including metabolism, the sodium/potassium pump, respiration/ventilation and associated laws, the blood and cardiovascular system, as well as the endocrine system and conditions related to hormone imbalance.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe communication systems, equipment, and effective strategies and procedures used in EMS including communicating with patients and families, getting non-communicative patients to talk, interviewing a hostile patient, and effectively communicating with individuals of different cultures, populations, and languages.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the various types of documentation required of EMS workers including all of the components of the PCR and the SOAP, CHART, and CHEATED methods for recording patient information.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the procedures involved in handling emergencies involving hazardous materials including identification, indications, handling, self-protection, treatment of patients, understanding the documentation, and identification of risks relating to specific common hazardous materials.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the procedures related to pharmacology for the EMT in the performance of emergency care including the roles and responsibilities associated with administering medications and assisting a patient in administration of medication, the EMT's scope of practice surrounding medication, applying basic pharmacology concepts, and steps in medication administration, documentation, and reassessment.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the assessment and management of patients with drowning and diving emergencies including the associated pathophysiology and related diseases and disorders.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the procedures for assessment and management of patients with acute diabetic emergencies including the associated pathophysiology, associated medications, indications and contraindications for medication administration, differences between different types of diabetic emergencies, and approaches to patients with an altered mental state.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the procedures for assessment and management of patients with an anaphylactic reactions including the associated pathophysiology, life-threatening mechanisms of anaphylaxis, scene size-up, signs and symptoms of an anaphylactic reaction, treatment of the patient, and role of medications.