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...

Presents ambulance operations, including readiness preparations, call response procedures, patient transport and transfer, and call termination. Presents air medical services, including when and how to call for air medical. Demonstrates how to set up a landing zone, how to safely approach a helic...

Presents primary assessment and describes its goals and steps. Demonstrates manual in-line stabilization, positioning the patient, and identifying immediate life threats. Presents assessment of a patient’s level of consciousness. Demonstrates how to assess ABC’s and determine the need for oxygen ...

Presents secondary assessment for medical patients. Demonstrates how to assess baseline vital signs, including how to use monitoring devices. Presents how to take a patient history, including how to use SAMPLE and OPQRST. Demonstrates how to perform a secondary assessment for medical patients who...

Presents secondary assessment for trauma patients. Describes mechanisms of injury, including those that raise a high index of suspicion for injury. Demonstrates the rapid secondary assessment and the modified secondary assessment. Presents transport considerations. Describes how to apply the Fiel...

Presents airway management, including assuring a patent airway. Demonstrates head-tilt-chin-lift and the jaw-thrust maneuvers. Presents airway adjuncts and how to use them. Demonstrates how to apply artificial ventilation, including how to assemble and safely use a medical oxygen cylinder.

Presents respiratory compromise, including signs and symptoms of inadequate breathing in adult patients. Presents common respiratory emergencies and demonstrates how to assess and provide emergency medical care for respiratory compromise patients.

Presents dressings, bandages and anti-shock garments and how to apply them. Presents how to identify and control three kinds of external bleeding, including through the use of direct pressure and tourniquets. Demonstrates how to provide emergency care for nosebleeds. Presents common causes of int...

Presents shock, including major categories, signs and symptoms and causes of shock. Describes the three stages of shock and how the body responds. Demonstrates how to assess and provide emergency medical care for patients in shock. Presents anaphylactic shock, including its common causes and sign...

Presents cardiac compromise, including common conditions, causes and signs and symptoms. Presents acute myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure. Demonstrates how to assess cardiovascular emergency patients and how to provide emergency care, including how to administer nitroglycerin.

Presents current cardiovascular resuscitation methods, including how to perform one and two-person CPR on adults and children. Demonstrates how to maintain, apply, operate and analyze a semiautomated defibrillator. Presents how to transport patients with and without a pulse. Teaches to the 2015 C...

Presents behavioral and psychiatric emergencies and their common causes. Describes safety factors and demonstrates how to assess and provide emergency care for suicidal, aggressive and violent patients. Presents alcohol and other substance abuse emergencies, including signs and symptoms and facto...

Presents altered mental status, including its causes and signs and symptoms. Presents seizures and their causes. Demonstrates assessment and care of seizures, including signs and symptoms and the kind and stage of seizure involved. Describes ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke as well as transient is...

Presents diabetic emergencies, including hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia. Demonstrates how to use a blood glucose meter, including how to prepare the meter, perform the procedure and interpret the results. Demonstrates how to provide emergency care for blood sugar emergency patients, including how...

Presents poisons and poisoning emergencies and describes the four routes of exposure. Presents common poisoning incidents, such as carbon monoxide poisoning, and includes signs and symptoms and how to provide emergency care. Describes how to use poison control center assistance. Demonstrates how ...

Presents cold and heat emergencies. Describes generalized hypothermia, its predisposing factors, stages of development and the body’s compensatory mechanisms. Demonstrates emergency care for hypothermia. Describes local cold injuries and demonstrates how to provide emergency care for local cold i...

Presents submersion emergencies and describes safety considerations for submersion incidents. Demonstrates how to assess and provide emergency care for submersion victims, including both in and out of water. Demonstrates how to manage suspected spinal injury patients in the water. Presents SCUBA ...

Presents emergencies particular to the obstetrical patient, including abdominal pain and bleeding. Presents the signs and stages of labor. Demonstrates how to prepare for and assist with childbirth. Demonstrates how to care for the mother and the neonate and how to assess and provide emergency ca...

Presents assessment and care for pediatric patients. Presents the signs and symptoms of common pediatric respiratory conditions and demonstrates emergency care for respiratory distress, respiratory arrest and airway obstructions. Demonstrates proper techniques for insertion of an oropharyngeal ai...

Presents emergencies particular to the geriatric patient. Describes age-associated changes in geriatric patient systems and how care approaches must be adjusted when responding to and caring for an elderly patient. Demonstrates how to assess and provide emergency care for geriatric medical and tr...

Describes different kinds of abdominal pain and conditions that can cause acute abdomen, including their signs and symptoms. Demonstrates how to assess and care for acute abdomen and how to prioritize a patient for transport. Presents abdominal injuries and demonstrates how to assess and care for...

Presents chest trauma, including open and closed chest injuries and their common causes and mechanisms of injury. Describes flail segment and open pneumothorax. Demonstrates how to assess chest trauma and how to provide emergency care for chest injuries, including impaled objects in the chest.

Presents head trauma and the pathophysiology of traumatic brain injuries. Describes concussion, contusion, subdural hematoma, epidural hematoma, laceration, herniation and diffuse axonal injury. Describes the signs and symptoms of head injury and demonstrates how to assess and provide care for he...