The well-being of the EMS provider -- EMS systems, roles, and responsibilities -- Illness and injury prevention -- Medicolegal issues -- Ethical issues for the EMS provider -- General principles of pathophysiology -- Pharmacology -- Medication administration -- Basic cardiac life support -- Life span development -- Airway management and ventilation -- History taking and therapeutic communication -- Techniques of physical examination -- Patient assessment overview -- Scene size-up and initial assessment -- Focused history and physical examination: medical patient -- Focused history and physical examination: trauma patient -- Assessment-based management -- Ongoing assessment and clinical decision making -- Communication -- Documentation -- Pulmonary and respiratory -- Cardiology -- Neurology -- Endocrinology -- Allergies and anaphylaxis -- Gastroenterology and urology -- Toxicology -- Environmental conditions -- Infectious and communicable diseases -- Behavioral and psychiatric disorders -- Hematology -- Gynecology and obstetrics -- Trauma systems and mechanism of injury -- Hemorrhage and shock -- Soft tissue trauma -- Burns -- Head and facial trauma -- Spinal trauma -- Thoracic trauma -- Abdominal trauma -- Musculoskeletal trauma -- Neonatalogy -- Pediatrics -- Geriatrics: abuse and assault -- The challenged patient -- Acute interventions with the home-care patient -- Ambulance operations and multiple casualty incidents -- Rescue awareness and operations -- Hazardous materials: issue awareness -- Crime scene awareness -- Advanced cardiac life support.
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