Presents scene safety, including how to evaluate safety hazards, with an emphasis on injury prevention. Describes crowd control and patient protection. Presents techniques for scene control and management. Demonstrates how to manage specialized scenes, such as hazardous materials, high-risk terra...

Presents infectious diseases and the pathogens that cause them. Describes how pathogens are transmitted. Demonstrates how to use standard precautions. Describes what to do if an exposure occurs. Demonstrates how to safely move and position patients and objects, including emergency, urgent and non...

Demonstrates primary patient assessment stages, including establishing patient consciousness and response. Demonstrates techniques for assessing and managing airway and breathing status for responsive and unresponsive patients. Demonstrates techniques for assessing and managing circulatory status...

Presents the areas of focus for conducting a secondary assessment. Demonstrates the steps for performing a physical examination as part of a secondary assessment. Demonstrates assessment of vital signs and the steps for conducting a reassessment, including how and when to reassess.

Presents important factors in respiratory effort. Describes assessing signs of adequate and inadequate airways and the common causes of airway obstructions. Demonstrates techniques for assuring a patent airway, including through the use of manual airway maneuvers, mechanical airway devices and re...

Presents important factors in respiratory effort. Describes assessing signs of adequate and inadequate airways and the common causes of airway obstructions. Demonstrates techniques for assuring a patent airway, including through the use of manual airway maneuvers, mechanical airway devices and re...

Describes abnormal adult breathing and its symptoms. Presents the causes of respiratory compromise, including impaired airway, impaired ventilation and impaired respiration. Demonstrates techniques for assessing adequate and inadequate respiration for responsive and unresponsive patients and demo...

Presents general considerations in bleeding emergencies, including the potential for shock. Describes the types of external bleeding, including arterial, venous and capillary and how to recognize them. Demonstrates the care of external bleeding patients, including direct pressure, pressure dressi...

Presents the causes, signs and symptoms of shock and demonstrates the management techniques for treating shock patients. Describes anaphylactic shock, its causes, assessment findings and treatment.

Describes symptoms of and demonstrates care for cardiac compromise. Describes causes, assessment and management for chest pain. Presents cardiac arrest and the symptoms and causes of congestive heart failure.

Presents factors for assessing patients in behavioral emergencies, including suicide risk and substance abuse. Describes the kinds of behavior changes that can pose a danger, including their causes. Presents methods to calm and provide care to behavioral emergency patients.

Describes the common causes of altered mental status, seizures and strokes. Presents assessment findings and demonstrates emergency medical care considerations in cases of patients with seizures and strokes.

Presents assessment and management factors for acutely injured patients suffering from head injuries, scalp injuries and brain injuries. Describes common causes, signs and symptoms for spine injuries and demonstrates assessment and management techniques for both responsive and unresponsive patien...

Describes common endocrine disorders, including high blood glucose, low blood glucose and diabetes. Presents the signs and symptoms of blood glucose emergencies as well as hemodialysis emergencies and demonstrates techniques for managing them.

Presents infectious disease awareness, including explaining transmission routes. Discusses carbon monoxide poisoning and the role of the National Poison Control Center. Presents poisoning by nerve agents, including describing exposure routes, assessment findings and management considerations. Pre...

Presents the factors contributing to cold emergencies, heat emergencies and submersion. Describes the signs and symptoms of hypothermia, localized cold emergencies, heat emergencies and submersion and demonstrates management techniques for each.

Discusses bleeding in and management for pregnant patients. Presents assessment factors for pregnant patients, including the signs of labor and the stages of labor and delivery. Describes physical examination procedures for pregnant patients. Presents how to care for the mother and baby and facto...

Demonstrates patient assessment and physical examination for pediatric emergencies. Presents assessment and management factors and demonstrates management techniques for pediatric respiratory emergencies. Presents the causes of, assessment factors for and demonstration of management techniques fo...

Presents common age-associated changes in older patients and assessment and physical examination factors for elder emergencies. Presents assessment and management considerations for elderly trauma patients.

Describes the National Triage Trauma Protocol guidelines for categorizing trauma patients. Describes common mechanisms of injury in adults and children and demonstrates assessment of trauma patients with and without significant mechanisms of injury.

Presents assessment techniques for and symptoms of abdominal and gastrointestinal disorders. Demonstrates management practices for patients with abdominal pain. Presents specific acute abdominal conditions, including abdominal bleeding and its common causes, assessment factors and symptoms. Demon...

Describes the symptoms and management of sucking chest wounds. Demonstrates emergency management requirements for impaled objects in the chest. Presents factors to consider in cases of multi-system trauma.

Describes soft tissue trauma, including abrasions and lacerations. Describes penetrations, punctures and impaled objects. Presents the causes, signs, symptoms and treatment for foreign bodies in the eye. Describes severity and depth of burns and burn management, including calculating the extent o...