First Responder EMS Curriculum for Training Centers in Eurasia

1. Emotionally disturbed patients will often resist treatment.2. Emotionally disturbed patients may threaten First Responders and others.3. To provide emergency care against the patient’s will, you must have a reasonablebelief that the patient may cause harm to self or others.4. If the patient is believed to be a danger to self or others, the patient may betransported without consent. Try to contact medical oversight whenever possible fordirection and approval.5. Try to involve law enforcement as soon as possible whenever dealing with apotentially violent or aggressive patient.5. Application of Content Materiala. Procedural (How)1. Demonstrate the steps in providing emergency medical care to a patient with ageneral medical complaint.2. Demonstrate the steps in providing care to a patient with an altered mental status.3. Demonstrate the steps in providing care to a patient with seizures.4. Demonstrate the steps in providing care to a patient exposed to cold.5. Demonstrate the steps in providing care to a patient exposed to heat.6. Demonstrate the steps in providing care to a patient with a behavioral change.7. Demonstrate the steps in providing care to a patient with a psychological crisis.b. Contextual (When, Where, Why)The First Responders will now be able to treat patients with general and specificmedical complaints.6. Student Activitiesa. Auditory (Hearing)1. Students will listen to a presentation of the signs, symptoms, and management ofpatients with general medical complaints, altered mental status, seizures, exposureto cold, exposure to heat, and behavioral problems.b. Visual (Seeing)1. Students will view audiovisual material of patients with general medical complaints,altered mental status, seizures, exposure to cold, exposure to heat, and behavioralproblems.c. Kinesthetic (Doing)1. Students will role play the emergency medical care of a patient with generalmedical complaints, altered mental status, seizures, exposure to cold, exposure toheat, and behavioral problems.Instructor Activities• Facilitate discussion and supervise practice.• Reinforce student progress in cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains.• Redirect students having difficulty with content.134 First Responder EMS Curriculum/AIHA, July 2002