COURSE AS VIEWED IN TOTAL CURRICULUM This course provides lecture and practical training in the art of keeping people alive in a hostile environment when medical personnel are not available to provide medical care enabling the injured person can survive. Then evacuating the injured person to a medical treatment facility to received definitive medical care needed to maintain life. ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING Barton Community College is committed to the assessment of student learning and to quality education. Assessment activities provide a means to develop an understanding of how students learn, what they know, and what they can do with their knowledge. Results from these various activities guide Barton, as a learning college, in finding ways to improve student learning. Course Outcomes, Competencies, and Supplemental Competencies: Perform Emergency Casualty Care in a Hostile Environment Perform rescue operations. Recognize and treat Arterial Bleeding. Conduct Tactical Casualty Evacuation procedures. Evaluate and Treat a Simulated Casualty Demonstrate the use of the AVPU to determine level of consciousness. Demonstrate how to recheck tourniquets for effectiveness. Identify and utilize the correct method of opening the airway. Identify the Indication and Contraindication when using a nasopharyngeal airway. Insert and manage a casualty using a nasopharyngeal airway. Identify and Treat Penetrating Chest Trauma. Identify signs and symptoms of Tension Pneumothorax. Treat a tension pneumothorax. Demonstrate how to take a pulse. Demonstrate how to evaluate a casualty. Identify when and how to apply a Hemostatic Agent Dressing. Apply an Emergency Trauma Dressing. Apply an Abdominal Dressing. Apply a pressure dressing. Identify and symptoms of Hypovolemic Shock and how to care for Shock. Pack a wound. Identify and treat all airway problems and wounds. Evacuate a Casualty Identify the difference between Casualty Evacuation (CASEVAC) and Medical Evacuation (MEDEVAC). Prepare Casualty for Transport. Complete a Medical Evacuation Care Report. Call in a medical evacuation request (MEDEVAC).
COURSE AS VIEWED IN TOTAL CURRICULUM This course provides lecture and practical training in the art of keeping people alive in a hostile environment when medical personnel are not available to provide medical care enabling the injured person can survive. Then evacuating the injured person to a medical treatment facility to received definitive medical care needed to maintain life. ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING Barton Community College is committed to the assessment of student learning and to quality education. Assessment activities provide a means to develop an understanding of how students learn, what they know, and what they can do with their knowledge. Results from these various activities guide Barton, as a learning college, in finding ways to improve student learning. Course Outcomes, Competencies, and Supplemental Competencies: Perform Emergency Casualty Care in a Hostile Environment Perform rescue operations. Recognize and treat Arterial Bleeding. Conduct Tactical Casualty Evacuation procedures. Evaluate and Treat a Simulated Casualty Demonstrate the use of the AVPU to determine level of consciousness. Demonstrate how to recheck tourniquets for effectiveness. Identify and utilize the correct method of opening the airway. Identify the Indication and Contraindication when using a nasopharyngeal airway. Insert and manage a casualty using a nasopharyngeal airway. Identify and Treat Penetrating Chest Trauma. Identify signs and symptoms of Tension Pneumothorax. Treat a tension pneumothorax. Demonstrate how to take a pulse. Demonstrate how to evaluate a casualty. Identify when and how to apply a Hemostatic Agent Dressing. Apply an Emergency Trauma Dressing. Apply an Abdominal Dressing. Apply a pressure dressing. Identify and symptoms of Hypovolemic Shock and how to care for Shock. Pack a wound. Identify and treat all airway problems and wounds. Evacuate a Casualty Identify the difference between Casualty Evacuation (CASEVAC) and Medical Evacuation (MEDEVAC). Prepare Casualty for Transport. Complete a Medical Evacuation Care Report. Call in a medical evacuation request (MEDEVAC).
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