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Includes the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and treatment of cardiovascular emergencies. Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification (ACLS) is an integral part of the course. Any failure in PEM 126C, PEM 135C, or PEM 244C will trigger a failure in PEM 162C (even if a passing grade in PEM 162C has been achieved).

Integrates paramedic knowledge, skills, and behaviors through practice and lecture. Students will hone leadership skills in the management of medical, traumatic, and psychological problems. Emphasis is placed on National Registry written exam preparation as well as career opportunities, affective behaviors, and preparation for entry into the EMS job market. Mental, physical, and financial health will also be discussed.

An optional/assigned formative field experience where a student will ride 100 hours with an ALS service. This clinic can be utilized any semester a student needs additional ALS time. The same clinical manual and grading criteria will be used as in the other field clinicals. This course may not be taken more than twice. Students electing to enroll in this course must receive a passing grade before progressing in the program.

Primary certification in the interpretation of 12 lead EKGs including injury and ischemia patterns, normal and abnormal findings, and the 12 lead as a diagnostic tool will be covered. Principles of ACS diagnosis/management will be an integral part of the course. The difficult airway portion of the course will include: RSI, adjunctive airways, difficult and failed airways, and the airway decision process.

Formative field experience where the student will log at least 150 hours with an ALS service. Successful completion will include minimum hours, preceptor endorsement, completed documentation, a successful mid-semester performance appraisal, a completed end-semester clinic evaluation, and 15 team-leader experiences.

Summative field experience where the student will log at least 120 hours with an ALS service. Successful completion will include minimum hours, preceptor endorsement, completed documentation, a successful mid-semester performance appraisal, a completed end-semester clinic evaluation, and 20 team-leader experiences.

Summative field experience and program capstone where the student will log at least 50 hours with an ALS service. Successful completion will include minimum hours, at least 18 of 20 successful team leads, preceptor endorsement as a competent entry-level paramedic, completed documentation, and a completed end-semester summative evaluation.

Introduces the methods, problems, and theories of the main branches of philosophy and the indestructible questions raised in regard to reality, truth, morality, power, meaning, purpose, and valid reasoning. Topics to be considered include the basis for beliefs concerning the nature and existence of God, experience and reason in the development of knowledge, the mind and its place in nature, freedom and determinism, and the basis and nature of morality.

Explores the principles of reasoning and development of symbolic techniques for evaluating arguments. The main components of deductive symbolic logic are introduced, and students gain skill using these techniques, which are used in mathematics, logic, computer science, statistics, and linguistics. Introduction to symbolic logic, including sentential and predicate logic, is taught with a focus on translating English statements into symbolic notation and evaluating arguments for validity using formal proof techniques. Students are able to distinguish types of arguments, consequences of claims, inconsistency, and the relationship between truth and logic, and detect and avoid ambiguities in language.

Examines major questions or issues addressed by religion in general. It also examines major representative systems of religious beliefs including the practices, historical development, and sociological development and context. The religious systems will be analyzed via specific doctrines and writings of each. Different aspects of religious beliefs and practice such as the absolute, the human problem, the human solution, rituals, the meaning of history, life after death, community and ethics, and attitudes toward other religions will be explored.