Emergency Medical Services

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the assessment and management of patients with behavioral emergencies including the potential underlying physical and psychological causes, procedures for assessment and history taking, risk factors and indications for suicide and violent behavior, indications and procedures for applying physical restraints, indications and procedures for involving law enforcement, and specific requirements for documentation.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the assessment and management of patients with environmental emergencies including heat and cold emergencies, bites and stings, lightning strike, acute mountain sickness, and high altitude pulmonary edema.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the assessment and emergency care procedures for patients who are in shock and require resuscitation emergencies including the pathophysiology, potential dangerous situations and methods for scene size-up, procedures for CPR and use of an AED, need for obtaining ACLS, and related technologies.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the assessment and management of patients with toxicological emergencies including steps in managing patients who have been poisoned via different routes and different poisons, role of the poison control center, and handling drug and alcohol emergencies.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the EMS in the community including the major historical milestones, components of the Technical Assistance Program assessment Standards, 911 and non-911 systems, the scope of practice of various levels of EMS providers, the roles and responsibilities of EMTs, EMT expectations, EMS oversight and continuous quality improvement programs, common EMT mistakes and injuries, and relationship of EMS to public health.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the procedures for assessment and management of cardiovascular emergencies for all groups as well as the anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system and common cardiovascular emergencies, diseases and disorders, and associated signs, symptoms, and medications.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the assessment and management procedures for emergencies involving geriatric patients including anatomical and physiological changes that impact emergency care, protocol for assessment and management of common issues seen in this population, and modifications that may be necessary to provide safe and effective care.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the assessment and management of newborns including management of newborn emergencies.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the procedures for assessment and management of patients with an altered mental state including assessment, signs and symptoms, common interventions, specific considerations needed for a stroke patient, common physical causes of altered states, and potential problems associated with headaches.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the procedures for assessment and management of patients with seizures and syncope including the associated pathophysiology, handling bystanders, recognition of situations in which these conditions might occur, questions to ask the patient, and steps for sizing up the scene.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the assessment and management procedures for emergencies involving patients with special needs and challenges, including special accommodations and modifications in patient assessment and management required for patients who have sensory impairments, cognitive and emotional impairments, paralysis, extreme obesity, and terminal illness as well as for those who are homeless or poor, abused, and dependent upon life supporting technologies.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the assessment and management procedures for emergencies involving pediatric patients including special considerations in assessment at different ages, major anatomical and physiological differences at different ages, common pediatric diseases and disorders, the assessment steps and emergency care protocol for management of common emergencies and emergency situations.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the physiological changes of pregnancy, emergency care procedures for pregnant women including management of antepartum and postpartum emergencies, emergency assessment, stages of labor, approaches to normal and abnormal deliveries, reassessment of postpartum patient.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the procedures for assessment and management of respiratory emergencies for all groups as well as the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system and common respiratory emergencies, diseases and disorders, and associated signs, symptoms, and medications.

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 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 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 appropriate effective response to terrorism for EMS including various types of weapons used in terrorism, preplanning a response to terrorism, EMT role and responsibilities, effects of exposure to common weapons of mass destruction and biological agents, and procedures for caring for victims and maintaining personal safety.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe strategies EMTs can use to maintain personal wellness and safety, deal with stresses of the job, and lower the risk for injury and illness associated with performing job functions as well as assist and protect patients and families from common risks during emergencies.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the physiological and psychological characteristics and changes associated with the following age groups: neonates and infants, toddlers, preschool-age children, school-age children, adolescents, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood.