Courses are typically taught in 2-2.5 hour segments but may be customized as conference sessions or as half-day workshops. The MTU is able to teach nearly any EMS topic for initial education or continuing education of the EMS provider. Courses may be taught in-person or as webinars. Below are examples of MTU course topics.
Hands-On Training: Emergency Medical Responder through Paramedic
- Airway skills
- Patient assessment and management: trauma and medical
- Adult and pediatric cardiac arrest
- Patient extrication and immobilization
- Medication administration
- Childbirth and neonatal resuscitation
- 12-lead ECG placement
- Intraosseous and IV placement
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Medical Topics - Adult Patient
- Respiratory and cardiac emergencies
- COPD, asthma, acute coronary syndromes, congestive heart failure
- Altered mentation
- Psychiatric emergencies
- Environmental emergencies
- Abdominal emergencies
- Diabetes
- Seizures
- Anaphylaxis
- Case reviews
- Trauma Topics - Adult Patient
- Head and spinal trauma
- Chest trauma
- Abdominal trauma
- Extremity trauma
- Mechanism of injury
- Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)
- Burns
- Penetrating trauma
- Trauma in pregnancy
- Shock
- Case reviews
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Pediatric Education - Trauma and Medical
- Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals (PEPP)
- Medical and trauma assessment
- Mechanism of injury, chest and abdominal trauma
- Case studies
- Childhood diseases
Miscellaneous EMS Topics
- Emergency Vehicle Operator Course (EVOC)
- Geriatrics for EMS (GEMS)
- ECG education - 3-lead and 12-lead
- CPAP and capnography
- Sports injuries
- Pharmacology
- Concepts of pharmacology, drug classes, medications in the Oregon scope of practice
- Bloodborne and airborne pathogens/ infectious disease
- Hazmat for EMS
- EMS incident command
- MCI tabletop scenarios
- Triage
- EMS Documentation/report writing
- Medical-legal issues in EMS
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