PARA 33000 Paramedic Airway Management

Students will review basic principles of airway management and learn advanced principles and techniques of airway management. Topics covered include relevant anatomy and physiology, assessment, pathophysiology of respiration, assessment of respiration, supplemental oxygen therapy, artificial ventilation, minute ventilation, alveolar ventilation, and the effects of artificial ventilation on cardiac output. Techniques of advanced airway management including endotracheal intubation, nasotracheal intubation, supraglottic airways, blind insertion airway devices, surgical cricothyrotomy and needle cricothyrotomy. Lab fee required.  

Credits

2

Prerequisite

Admission to paramedic cohort. Paramedic Program Director approval.

Offered

Fall.