EG 109 - Paramedic Clinical I

Credit Hours: 1

This course provides the student with experience in four clinical settings, the morgue, the operating room, the medical school cadaver lab and the emergency department.

The course provides an introductory experience in the emergency departments where the student first observes, then practices the skills of patient assessment, taking vital signs, doing blood draws and inserting IV lines while under the supervision of designated preceptors.Under the supervision of anesthesiologists in several area hospitals operating rooms, students will perform the advanced airway management skills of endotracheal intubation.

Under the observation of clinical faculty, students will perform various advanced airway procedures on human cadavers at the medical school cadaver lab.

Observing autopsies at the Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office provides a valuable lesson in anatomy, physiology, disease and trauma processes. Students learn the location of organs, their relationships to each other and to the external anatomy and the disruption of various systems from medical or trauma conditions that cause death.

Course Outcomes
upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:

identify the major organs of the body, their location and function;
perform a history and physical examination for medical and trauma patient, assess vital signs and establish peripheral intravenous insertion and obtaining blood samples; and
perform the airway skills of BVM, Endotracheal Intubation and LMA insertion.

Corequisites: EG 101, EG 103, EG 104
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