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Overview

Duration

7 months

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

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Credential

Certificate

Become an EMT Specialization
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Become an EMT Specialization
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Highlights

  • Earn a Certificate upon completion
  • Financial aid available
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Become an EMT Specialization
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Course details

More about this course
  • Health care is an exciting and ever growing profession that can take you many different directions
  • Learn here about emergent patient care, stabilization, and disease processes toward becoming an EMT or further health care pursuits
  • In this specialization learn to care for stable and unstable patients before they get to a hospital, how to identify time sensitive diseases, and medical and traumatic conditions that affect both adults and pediatric patients
  • Ensures you can assess a scene and prepare to provide care, understand the framework for patient assessment, history of emergency medical services, and the personal requirements to be an EMT
  • Addresses airway, breathing and circulation, medications and medication administration that EMTs are allowed to provide, and how to identify a patient having a stroke or diabetic emergency
  • Covers skills related to high performance CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, toxicology, and wilderness emergency medicine
  • Offers skills for trauma emergencies and Course 5 focuses pregnancy, infants and pediatrics
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Become an EMT Specialization
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Curriculum

EMT Foundations

Medical Emergencies: Airway, Breathing, and Circulation

Medical Emergencies: CPR, Toxicology, and Wilderness

Trauma Emergencies and Care

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