EMS 218 Basic Electrocardiography (3 credits)
Prerequisite Enrollment in the Paramedic Program.
Course Description
Fundamentals of electrocardiography (ECG) and interpretation of normal and abnormal ECG patterns, and treatment of findings.
Course Content
Normal function of the Heart
Cardiac System Treatment Drug Classifications
Electrocardiogram Rhythm and Dysrhythmias
Conduction System Disorders
Electrolyte, Body Temperature, and Toxin Effects Upon the Electrocardiogram
Life Support Management of Critical and Stable Cardio-Respiratory Patients
Assessment of Patients with Chest Pain and Other Cardio-Respiratory Complaints
Electrocardiogram Monitor Defibrillator
Student Outcomes
- Describe knowledge and functionality of the blood flow and electrical pathways through the heart.
- Interpret an ECG rhythm and identify dysrhythmias and disorders.
- Destiguish ECG results to determine ACLS algorthym application.
- Discuss basic and advanced life support management within the scope of practice of a paramedic.
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes:
2. Conduct a patient evaluation
3. Maintain equipment used in emergency patient care.
6. Administer emergency treatment rendered at an advanced life support level.
Core Abilities:
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30
Potential Methods
Peer evaluation
Instructor evaluation
Written assessments
Group assessments
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