Emergency Trauma Technician

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    • Prerequisite Course(s): None
    • High School Credit = 1/2 credit per semester (Postsecondary credit = 0)
    • This course will be offered: every year
    • Pathway (Optional): Health and Human Services
    • Career Cluster Area: Health Occupations
    • Source of Occupational Skills Standards: Alaska Department of Health and Social Services
    • Eligibility for Nationally Recognized Skill Certificate(s)/State License? Yes, ETT Certificate
    • Tech Prep: No
    • Is this course brokered through another institution or agency? No
    • Course Description: This is a State of Alaska Health Department course where students learn to work as a pre-hospital/first responder medical team. Certification is available if students successfully complete the exit exam.
    • Content Headings/Topics
      1. Basic anatomy and function
      2. Patient assessment
      3. CPR
      4. Shock management
      5. Soft tissue injury
      6. Splinting of fractures
      7. Trauma assessment
      8. Burn management
      9. Oxygen therapy
      10. Patient transport
      11. Common medical emergencies
      12. Environmental emergencies
    Performance Standards (Learner Outcomes)Specific Occupational Skills StandardsAlaska Reading, Writing, Math, Science Performance StandardsAlaska Content StandardsAlaska Employability StandardsAlaska Cultural StandardsAll Aspects of IndustryAssessments
    1. Describe the basic human anatomy and function of the respiratory, circulatory, muscularskeletal, nervous, digestive, and endocrine systems.ADHSS
    NREMT
    EMST-C
    R4.1
    W4.3
    A1 H1A2E41WE4P/P
    2. Demonstrate the appropriate means of assessing a patient’s emergency condition.ADHSS
    NREMT
    EMST-C
    R4.1-R4.6M.AB S.HDA2B41WE4Demo
    Test
    3. Properly demonstrate CPR.ADHSS
    NREMT
    EMST-C
    R4.1-R4.6M.AS S.HDA2B4 C31WE8Demo
    Test
    4. Identify the characteristics of shock management.ADHSS
    NREMT
    EMST-C
    A2.4.2 W4.1H-l T-A,CA2B41WE8Demo
    Test
    5. Identify the proper techniques for soft tissue injury management.ADHSS
    NREMT
    EMST-C
    A2.4.2 W4.2M.AB S-AA2B41WE5Demo
    Test
    6. Demonstrate the method of splinting fractures.ADHSS
    NREMT
    EMST-C
    A2.4.2 A6.4.1S-D T-AA2B41WE4Demo
    Test
    7. Identify the steps in trauma assessment.ADHSS
    NREMT
    EMST-C
    C1.41 W4.5H-A T-CA6B41WE9Demo
    Test
    8. Demonstrate the response process for burn management.ADHSS
    NREMT
    EMST-C
    E1.4.1 A2-4S-D H-A T-CA2B41WE7Demo
    Test
    9. Describe the proper techniques for oxygen therapy.ADHSS
    NREMT
    EMST-C
    R4.6 B1.41S.A10 M-A1-3A2,6B3 D61WE4,5P/P
    10. Demonstrate the proper technique of patient transport.W4.3 R4.4B3A2,6B31WE4,5Demo
    11. Demonstrate and apply knowledge in response to common medical emergencies.ADHSS
    NREMT
    EMST-C
    A2.4.2L-B S-AA6C21WE7,8Evaluation
    12. Demonstrate and apply knowledge in response to environ-mental emergenciesA6.41 W4.5L-B S-DA6B21WE7,8Evaluation

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