Class Schedule

• Description: Paramedic skills presented with a focus on unbiased patient care. Patient assessment and medication administration for respiratory, neurological, endocrine, overdose and poisonings, and gastrointestinal conditions for 911 call simulations and case studies. Pharmacology principles and applications. Additional skills include nebulizer/BVM set-up; digital intubation; foreign body airway obstruction; 12 lead ECG interpretation; blood glucose analysis; advanced cardiac life support; pressure infusers; intravenous access. Intended for students in the Paramedic Program; enrollment is limited to students accepted in the program.
• Prerequisite: Prerequisites: EMS 60A and 60B.
• Corequisite: EMS 61A.
• Advisory: Advisory: Not open to students with credit in EMTP 61B or 100B.
• 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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