PHYE 150 Tigue

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Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Summer 2004

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The First Aid and Emergency Care course in designed to meet the need of an individual or group in a position to provide first aid frequently. The course provides the essential knowledge and skills required by individuals interested in advanced rescue work. National Safety Council Certificate will be issued if the student successfully completes the course. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is included as part of the course. The First Aid course does not meet the General Education core requirement.

CLASS POLICY AND PROCEDURES:
1. Complete the assigned reading.
2. Pass the three exams. The final will be comprehensive.
3. Quizzes may be given regularly.
4. No makeup will be given on quizzes.
5. Pass all skill requirements in rescue breathing, CPR, choking and bandaging.
6. Upon successful completion:
a. A First Aid card will be issued and is valid for 3 years.
b. A CPR card will be issued and is valid for 1 year.
7. Attendance is mandatory for success in this class. Three absences will result in being dropped from the class.

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GRADING:
1. Exams, quizzes and skill requirements:
3 exams = 100 points each
Quizzes = 10 points each
Skill requirements = 50 points each
Grading will be based on the following percentages of total points.
90% - 100% = A
80% - 89% = B
70% - 79% = C
60% - 69% = D
59% and under total points = F

A. Introduction; Victim Assessment & Shock Control
Objectives:
1. First Aid defined and its importance
2. The actions of first aid assessment and their importance
3. The legal responsibilities of first aid.
4. The causes of shock and their affect on the body.
5. The signs and symptoms for shock.
6. The emergency care for a victim in shock.

B. Vascular Systems, Hemorrhage Control Wounds and Soft Tissue Injuries
Objectives:
1. Types of external and internal bleeding.
2. Methods of controlling minor bleeding and sever hemorrhaging.
3. Five types of wounds.
4. The application of dressings and bandages.
5. Infection and its treatment

C. Respiratory Emergencies
Objectives:
1. Respiratory function
2. Respirator distress and arrest vs. cardiac arrest.
3. Methods of rescue breathing
4. Critical skills used in rescue breathing
5. Methods to clear an obstructed airway
6. Causes of and identifying an obstructed airway.
7. The critical skills used in clearing an obstructed airway.

1. Define first aid.
2. Know and explain the 3 parts of victim assessment
a. Initial survey
b. Primary survey
c. Secondary survey and assessing vital signs
3. Know what information to collect and how to activate the EMS system.
4. Know the major organs and their location.
5. Define shock and its causes.
6. Identify and describe the signs and symptoms of shock.
7. Perform and explain the emergency care necessary to reverse the shock process.
8. Know the objectives in caring for a bleeding wound.
9. Identify and care of the five types of external wounds.
10. Define a wound
11. Explain and demonstrate the five methods of bleeding control and when their used.
12. Explain and demonstrate the use of a dressing and bandage.
13. Know the difference in care for a minor wound vs. a wound requiring medical attention.
14. Define infection. Know the signs and symptoms of infection
15. Explain clinical death and biological death.
16. Assess the unconscious victim to determine respiratory arrest and the need for rescue breathing.
17. Demonstrate and explain the critical performance skills for rescue breathing.
18. Identify a choking victim conscious and unconscious.
19. Explain and demonstrate the critical performance skills used in caring for a choking victim.

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A. Bone, Joint, and Muscle Injuries
Objectives:
1. Major skeletal system
2. Types of fractures and dislocations.
3. Assessment of fractures and dislocations
4. Open fractures vs. closed fractures and treatment.
5. Immobilizing fractures and dislocations
6. Care of sprains and strains

B. Poisons and Burns Intervention
Objectives:
1. How poisons enter the system
2. Poison reactions
3. Treatment and care of poisons
4. Snake and insect bites and their treatment.
5. Degrees of burns and their severity
6. Signs and symptoms of 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree burns
7. Treatment procedures for burns

C. Cardiovascular Disease and Cardiac Emergencies
Objectives:
1. Heart function and Anatomy
2. The factors that can predispose a possible cardiovascular disease and disease prevention.
3. Signs and symptoms of cardiovascular diseases
4. The sudden death syndrome
5. Establishing respiratory and cardiac arrest.
6. The critical skills used in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

1. Know the major bones of the skeletal system and their location.
2. Know the objective of treating a fracture.
3. Explain a closed fracture vs. an open fracture and know the emergency care for both.
4. Identify the signs and symptoms of a fracture.
5. Demonstrate the application of a splint on the extremities
6. Define a dislocation
7. Identify the signs and symptoms of a dislocation.
8. Know the emergency care of a dislocation
9. Know and describe a sprain and a strain and their primary difference.
10. Know and identify the signs and symptoms of a sprain and a strain.
11. Know the initial and extended treatment and care of a sprain and strain.
12. Know and identify the signs and symptoms of the three degrees of burns.
13. Know the treatment and care for burns.
14. Know the don't in burn treatment.
15. Know the treatment an care for electrical burns and chemical burns.
16. Know the four ways poisons enter the body.
17. Identify the signs and symptoms of poisoning
18. Explain the treatment procedure for ingested, inhaled, absorbed, or injected poisons.
19. Know the twelve factors that may predispose the possibility of a heart attack and how it may affect the ability of the heart to function properly.
20. Know the general anatomy and the location of the heart in respect to the sternum.
21. Know the signs and symptoms of a heart attack vs. cardiac arrest.
22. Assess the unconscious victim to determine the need for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
23. Determine and explain the critical performance skills for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

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UNIT III--TOPICAL OUTLINE AND COURSE OBJECTIVES

A. Heat and Cold Emergencies
Objectives:
1. Environmental causes of heat and cold exposure
2. Signs and symptoms of heat and cold exposure
3. The bodies' physiological reaction to heat and cold exposure
4. The treatment procedure for heat and cold emergencies

B. Specific Illnesses
Objectives:
1. Diabetic Emergencies
2. The function of insulin
3. The diabetic reactions
4. Seizure signals
5. The care of seizure victims

C. Injuries to the Upper body
Objectives:
1. Head and neck, injuries closed and open wounds.
2. Eye injuries and emergency care.
3. Types of thoracic and abdominal injuries open, closed, and their care.
4. Signs and symptoms of upper body injuries.

UNIT III OUTCOMES:

1. Identify the environmental conditions that could produce heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
2. Identify the signs and symptoms present in a person suffering from heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
3. Know the emergency care given to heat exhaustion and heat stroke victims.
4. Identify the signs and symptoms of frostbite and frozen tissue.
5. Know the emergency care administered in frostbite and frozen tissue.
6. Identify the environmental conditions that could produce hypothermia.
7. Identify the signs and symptoms displayed by a person suffering from hypothermia.
8. Know the emergency care procedures needed for hypothermia.
9. Know the emergency care administered for the diabetic reactions
1. insulin shock
2. diabetic acidosis
10. Identify signs and symptoms of a diabetic emergency.
11. Know the effects no insulin vs. too much insulin in the system.
12. Know the characteristics of a seizure.
13. Know the procedures followed in caring for person having a seizure.
14. Know the circumstances when a victim needs to seek medical assistance when having a seizure.
15. Identify serious head injuries and administer the proper care for skull and soft tissue injuries.
16. Recognize neck and back injuries and know the proper emergency care and stabilization procedure.
17. Identify the signs and symptoms of open and closed thoracic injuries.
18. Know the emergency care for penetrating chest wounds and closed chest wounds.
19. Identify the signs and symptoms of internal abdominal injuries.
20. Know the emergency care for internal abdominal injuries with exposed organs.

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