Time: 1:40 P.M. to 3:00 P.M.

Location: Litchfield Firehouse

Length: Spring Semester

Instructor:  Chad Dooley

Course Objectives:

• To train personnel in expert emergency care

• To protect EMT and patient from further harm

• To assess and evaluate all signs and symptoms

• To give prompt and efficient medical care

• Proper extrication and patient packaging

• To provide safe and efficient transportation

• To arrange transfer of patient care to receiving medical facility

• To use good communication with patient, families and medical personnel

• To keep accurate documentation

• To properly operate an emergency vehicle

Certifications and Eligibility: EMT Certification; Student must be enrolled in the 12th grade, receive diploma, and must turn 18 years of age prior to sitting for the EMT National Registry Exam

This course incorporates the study of how to respond to emergency calls to provide proper emergency care

to the critically ill or injured and how to handle, extricate and transport patients to a

medical facility, with the goal of saving lives. It includes determining the nature and extent

of illness or injury, establishing priorities for required emergency care, and maintaining

basic life support services (opening and maintaining airway, performing CPR, control of

bleeding, treatment of sick, bandaging wounds, care of fractures, childbirth, medical,

environmental and psychological emergencies, patient packaging, triage and disaster

management, vehicle extrication, ambulance operations and radio communication and

records). Student must complete both classroom and clinical hours and a minimum 80% grade in order to qualify to take the National Registry test.