PAR5480 Intensive care management of medical conditions

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Analyse the epidemiology of acute and chronic medical illness/disease and synthesise the available contemporary evidence base to inform and/or support improvements in the approach to the management of medical emergencies;

2. 2

   Formulate treatment pathways for medical patients through the application of clinical decision-making frameworks and problem-solving;

3. 3

   Formulate appropriate pharmacotherapeutic regimes using the relevant drugs available for the intensive care management of medical conditions;

4. 4

   Implement knowledge, skills and evidence based practice to professionally manage a medical emergency as an intensive care paramedic;

5. 5

   Assess the benefits of pre-hospital advanced medical interventions and the related role of the intensive care paramedic in the management of medical conditions;

6. 6

   Evaluate how intensive care paramedics might relate to and coordinate with hospital intensive care units in the management of patients with emergency medical conditions.