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2011-2012 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EG 108 - Respiratory and Cardiology Lab


Credit Hours: 1

This lab section teaches the assessment and psychomotor skills of management of the respiratory and cardiac patient. Skills include focused patient assessment, EKG analysis, cardiac monitoring, defibrillation, cardioversion, transthoracic pacing, cardiac emergency management and cardiac arrest management. Upon completion of this course and the requested co-requisite EG 107, the student will receive the American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support certificate.
Prerequisites: EG 105, EG 106, basic EMT, math (AARLV2) and English (AWRLV3 & ARELV3) pretest codes or higher.
Corequisites: EG 107, EG 110
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Students seeking entrance into this course must be currently certified as a basic EMT and be admitted to the paramedic curriculum to register for this course.