Advanced Medical Life Support
EMS-313
Old Course Code: AMLS

Instructional Hours: 16

Objective: To provide the student with the knowledge and skills required to successfully assess and manage a patient in medical crisis. This course addresses the most common medical complaints and offers a pragmatic method of assessment and management utilizing the scene size-up, history and physical examination to systematically rule-out and rule-in possibilities and probabilities in the medical patient.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to apply critical thinking skills to integrate pathophysiology with assessment and history findings to determine actual and potential patient problems, and apply appropriate emergency medical treatment.

Instruction: Major topics covered in the course are assessment of the medical patient, airway management, ventilation and oxygen therapy, hypoperfusion, dyspnea, chest pain, altered mental status, seizure and seizure disorders, acute abdominal pain and gastrointestinal bleeding. Methods of instruction include interactive lecture, teaching and evaluation stations. Methods of evaluation include lecture, discussion, case study, practical exam and a final examination.

ACE Credit Recommendations:
Credit Recommendation: In the vocational certificate or lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category, 1 semester hour in Emergency Medical Services Technology or Emergency Health Services (9/03) (2/09).