About Emergency Medical Technician

Training Outcomes After completing this programme, participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge about the healthcare sector and emergency

medical care services

• Demonstrate the ability to perform clinical skills essential in providing

basic emergency medical care services such as urgent need to respond the

emergency calls, assurance of scene safety, precision to call other

emergency people, handling different emergency scenarios from clinical

emergency to trauma emergency to mass casualty to disaster

management, etc.

• Demonstrate setting of an ambulance for dealing with emergency

situations

• Practice infection control measures

• Demonstrate safe and efficient transferring and ambulation techniques

• Demonstrate techniques to maintain the personal hygiene needs of

oneself and the patient

• Demonstrate actions in the event of medical and facility emergencies

• Demonstrate professional behavior, personal qualities and characteristics

of a Emergency Medical technician-Basic

• Demonstrate good communication, communicate accurately and

appropriately in the role of Emergency Medical technician-Basic

Subjects:

1.     Respond to emergency calls

2.     Size up the scene at the site

3.     Follow evidence based Protocol while managing patients

4.     Assess patient at the site

5.     Patient triage based on the defined clinical criteria of severity of illness

6.     Manage cardiovascular emergency

7.     Manage cerebrovascular emergency

8.     Manage allergic reaction

9.     Manage poisoning or overdose

10.                        Manage environmental emergency

11.                        Manage behavioural emergency

12.                        Manage obstetric/gynaecological emergencies

13.                        Manage Bleeding and Shock

14.                        Manage soft tissue injury and burns

15.                        Manage musculoskeletal injuries

16.                        Manage injuries to head and spine

17.                        Manage infants, neonates and children

18.                        Manage respiratory emergency

19.                        Manage severe abdominal pain

20.                        Manage mass casualty incident

21.                        Select the proper provider institute for transfer

22.                        Transport patient to the provider institute

23.                        Manage patient handover to the provider institute

24.                        Manage diabetes emergency

25.                        Collate and Communicate Health Information

26.                        Act within the limits of ones competence and authority

27.                        Work effectively with others

28.                        Manage work to meet requirements

29.                        Maintain a safe working environment

30.                        Practice code of conduct while performing duties

31.                        Follow biomedical waste disposal protocols

32.                        Follow infection control policies and procedures

33.                        Monitor and assure quality