EMSP 1356 - Patient Assessment & Airway Management

CIP Code: 51.0904
Credit(s): 3
Knowledge and skills required to perform patient assessment, airway management, and artificial ventilation. Lab fee required. (2-2-0) Perform a history and comprehensive physical exam on various patient populations; establish and/or maintain a patient airway; demonstrate oxygenation and ventilation of a patient; differentiate respiratory distress, failure and arrest; and interpret results of monitoring devices. 1

Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites: Consent of department director.

Corequisite(s): Corequisite: as sequenced by semester of entry.
Faculty Consent: Y