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| | Emergency Medical Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | First responder role and responsibilities, understanding the human body, preventing disease transmission, establishing priorities of care, one and two rescuer cardiopulmonary resuscitation, treating injuries, identifying medical emergencies, and crisis intervention. |
 | | Introduction to emergency medical care; medical and legal ethics; management of shock, trauma, fractures and hemorrhage control; management of environmental, behavioral and medical emergencies of infants, children and adults; obstetrical, gynecologic and childbirth emergencies; transportation, lifting, and moving of the sick and injured; radio communications, documentation, ambulance operations, scene evaluation and emergency medical technician safety. |
 | | Identification and treatment of hemorrhage; shock; fracture and dislocations; burns; heat disorders; hypothermia; chemical and botanical poisons; snake, insect and marine-life bites under field conditions; and application of drug therapy, artificial respiration and heart massage. |
| www.au.af.mil /au/ccaf/catalog/2005cat/cd_emt.htm (534 words) |
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