“Introduction to Ambulance Practice” develops knowledge of Ambulance equipment, documentation, procedures and standard practices. Issues of Occupational Health Safety and Welfare, including infectious diseases, street safety and correct lifting techniques are also included. Interpersonal skills and issues of death and dying are also addressed.
“Introduction to Ambulance Care” focuses on teaching the skills appropriate to the role of a first responder. These include the primary and secondary survey, encompassing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, vital signs assessment, and taking a patient history. Common medical terminology and issues of patient comfort such as pain relief are covered as a matter of course.
Driver training in this course is concerned with promoting safe driving practice in the emergency and non-emergency setting. Value clarification and behaviour modification are paramount to this module of the course, as is the issue of maintaining a stable patient platform.
Anatomy and Physiology of the Muscular Skeletal system is covered in this module, as is appropriate management of fractures, dislocations and ligament injuries, the issues associated with compartment syndrome and crush injuries and burns.
Included in this module is the anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system, basic electrophysiology, perfusion status, assessment and management. Attention is given to a range of common emergency cardiac conditions, their presentation, pathophysiology and appropriate management.
Included in this module is the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system, and to a range of common emergency respiratory conditions, their presentation, pathophysiology and appropriate management.
Included in this module is the basic anatomy and physiology of the central nervous system, presentation and management of common behavioural disturbances and common neurological emergencies.
Anatomy and physiology in the pregnant state, the normal birth, common complaints of pregnancy and childbirth, and the neonatal patient are covered in this module. Also covered are paediatric anatomy and physiology, common paediatric emergencies and their management and communicating with children.
This module refers to the pathophysiology and appropriate emergency management of common medical emergencies such as diabetes, epilepsy, hyperthermia, hypothermia and anaphylaxis.
Controlling the scene, disaster situations and triage as well as aero medical protocol are issues, which are central to this module.
- Cardiac Monitoring and Defibrillation
- Injection Technique
- Cardiac Care - Glyceryl Tri-nitrate
- Respiratory Care - Adrenalin
- Anaphylaxis - Adrenalin
- Narcotic Overdose - Naloxone
- Diabetes - Glucagon