E-FAST Ultrasound Training Curriculum for Prehospital Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Clinicians.

ABSTRACT:

Audience and type of curriculum

Audience and type of curriculum: This hybrid, asynchronous curriculum is designed for prehospital clinician colleagues, including but not limited to emergency medical technicians (EMT), advanced EMTs (AEMT), EMT-paramedics (EMT-P), critical care EMT-Ps (CCEMTP), critical care transport nurses (CCTN), and certified flight registered nurses (CFRN) to learn and practice ultrasound fundamentals in the setting of a standardized extended focused assessment with sonography in trauma (E-FAST) exam.

Length of curriculum

Over a five-month curriculum, learners will perform a pre-test, review online module lectures, attend an ultrasound scanning workshop, and perform post-test examinations.

Introduction

The extended-focused assessment with sonograp

SUBMITTER: Nguyen CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10854885 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature