Class Schedule

• Description: Paramedic skills presented: proper hand washing; personal protective equipment; patient assessment focusing on unbiased patient care; intravenous access; intraosseous infusion; bleeding control and shock management; pleural decompression; cricothyrotomy; pharmacology principles and applications; medication administration; airway management: endotracheal intubation, endotracheal intubation with spinal immobilization, oropharyngeal airway, nasopharyngeal airway, suctioning, dual lumen airways; pediatric advanced life support ambulance 911 call simulations and case studies; prehospital trauma life support ambulance 911 call simulations and case studies; synchronized cardioversion; transcutaneous pacing; defibrillation; end tidal carbon dioxide monitoring; capnography; 12 lead ECG interpretation. Emphasis on special population, pediatric, and trauma management and operations. Intended for students in the Paramedic Program; enrollment is limited to students accepted in the program.
• Prerequisite: Prerequisites: EMS 61A and 61B.
• Corequisite:
• Advisory: Advisory: Not open to students with credit in EMTP 62B.
• Repeatability: Not Repeatable.
• Hours: 2 hours lecture per week, 6.5 hours lab per week. 102 hours total per quarter.
• Foothill GE Area:English
• Transferability: CSU
• Transfer GE: Information regarding how this course is applied toward CSU GE/Breadth or IGETC certification is available at:
• Foothill Transfer GE Guide

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