EMS 825 - Advanced Medical Life Support
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021
1 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 15
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills that will be necessary for the Paramedic or other prehospital emergency medical providers as they care for patients in emergency medical situations. The course is based on the current National Association of Emergency Medical Technician’s Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) curriculum. This course is offered pass/fail. Upon successful completion of this course, students will gain knowledge that will allow them to have a positive impact on the lives of their patients while providing emergent medical care within the communities that they serve.
Corequisites: Paramedic 3 (EMS 769)
Prerequisites: Students must have EMT or higher EMS certification, RN licensure, physician licensure, or physician assistant licensure.
Mode(s) of Instruction: Traditional/Face-to-Face
Credit for Prior Learning: This course offers an opportunity for students to earn Credit for Prior Learning for skills that they have brought with them to Iowa Central. For more information, please ask the instructor and see the Iowa Central Community College catalog.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): National Association of EMTs AMLS cognitive and psychomotor examinations
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
a. At the completion of this course participants will understand the concepts and methodologies of advanced medical life support. Participants will be able to utilize those concepts and methodologies to successfully treat an adult and/or pediatric patient experiencing an emergency medical situation.
Course Objectives:
a. Identify and manage life-threatening presentations for a variety of medical emergencies, while considering comprehensive patient history, focused physical exam, and diagnostic findings.
b. Demonstrate with proficiency the application of the AMLS assessment pathway to determine appropriate differential diagnoses and management strategies.
c. Compare and contrast the concepts of clinical decision making, pattern recognition, and clinical reasoning used in the determination of differential diagnoses.
d. Low, medium, and high-fidelity simulation may be utilized to obtain psychomotor outcomes for this course.
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