First Responder EMS Curriculum for Training Centers in Eurasia

Assistant InstructorThe instructor-to-student ratio should be 1:6 for psychomotor skill practice.Assistant instructors should be knowledgeable about infants, children, and childbirth.Recommended Minimum Time to CompleteOne hourApplicationProcedural (How)Instructor will demonstrate the procedural activities from Chapter 12: Childbirth.Instructor will demonstrate the procedural activities from Chapter 13: Infants and Children.Contextual (When, Where, Why)Instructor will review the contextual activities from Chapter 12: Childbirth.Instructor will review the contextual activities from Chapter 13: Infants and Children.Student ActivitiesAuditory (Hearing)1. Students will listen to a videotape of a mother in the final stages of labor, providing asample of the mother's actions during this painful process.2. Students will listen to various infant and child airway sounds.3. Students will listen to parent information.Visual (Seeing)1. Students will view audiovisual materials about labor and delivery showing:• Late stages of labor and normal delivery• Suctioning the infant's mouth and nose during delivery• Assessment and care of the newborn• Normal bleeding during delivery2. Students will view audiovisual materials about infant and child patients with commonmedical or traumatic complaints.3. Students will look at various infant or child equipment.Kinesthetic (Doing)1. Students will practice the steps to assist in the normal delivery.2. Students will practice necessary care of the fetus as the head appears during delivery.3. Students will practice post-delivery care of mothers and neonates.4. Demonstrate the techniques of opening the airway of an infant or child.5. Demonstrate the techniques of suctioning an infant or child.6. Demonstrate the techniques for removing a foreign body airway obstruction in an infantor child.7. Demonstrate how to ventilate infants and children.8. Demonstrate the assessment of the infant and child.9. Demonstrate how to manage partial and complete airway obstructions in infants andchildren.10. Demonstrate how to manage respiratory distress and respiratory arrest in infants andchildren.260 First Responder EMS Curriculum/AIHA, July 2002