EMS 2007 - Advanced Medical Life Support

1. AMLS Introduction
2. Initial patient assessment
3. Airway management
4. The shock patient
5. Group rotations in shock and airway
6. Dyspnea/Respiratory Failure
7. Chest pain
8. Altered mental status
9. Abdominal pain and GI bleeding
10. Group rotations in altered level of consciousness and abdominal pain
11. Post-test and practical testing
12. Course wrap up and evaluation

1. integrate pathophysiology with the assessment findings of a medical patient.
2. differentiate between actual and potential patient problems.
3. conduct a medical examination that integrates critical thinking, diagnostic skills, and interventions.
4. implement problem solving strategies in interventions and management alternatives.
5. communicate procedures necessary to relay pertinent findings and interventions to the receiving facility.
6. assess medical patients according to the AMLS assessment pathway algorithm.
7. discuss various medical emergency pathologies in an in-depth manner.
8. correlate the symptoms of a patient’s cardinal presentation to the appropriate body system.
9. gather pertinent historical data
10. treat immediate life threats in a variety of medical emergencies.
11. describe laboratory and diagnostic tests to verify diagnoses.
12. identify an electrolyte derangement.
13. discuss epidemiological and psychosocial aspects of disease processes.
14. decontaminate patient exposures to hazardous materials.

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