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| 1. Description - |
| American Red Cross Standard First Aid/CPR certificates are available upon completion of the course. Lecture and laboratory are devoted to basic injury recognition and emergency response of acute trauma. Practical hands-on skills are emphasized in laboratories. Students must have reliable and ongoing Internet access to complete Quizzes, Discussions and Assignments.
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| Prerequisite: None
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| Co-requisite: None
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| Advisory: Not open to students with credit in H P 67B.
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| 2. Course Objectives - |
| The student will be able to:
- demonstrate American Red Cross First Aid skills.
- demonstrate American Red Cross CPR skills.
- review basic Anatomy and Physiology.
- recognize basic signs and symptoms of athletic injury trauma.
- apply basic first aid skills to mock athletic injuries.
- explain basic athletic injury recognition.
- demonstrate basic athletic injury recognition.
- discuss approaches to emergency care in other cultures.
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| 3. Special Facilities and/or Equipment - |
| Injury treatment laboratory/classroom. When taught as an online distance learning or hybrid section, students and faculty need ongoing and continuous Internet and Email access.
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| 4. Course Content (Body of knowledge) - |
| - Basic Emergency Injury Response
- Communication
- Scope and liability
- CPR
- Standard first aid
- Emergency procedures
- Acute Athletic Injury Trauma Recognition
- Primary/secondary evaluation
- History
- Inspection
- Palpation
- Functional tests
- Head and Neck Trauma
- Basic injury anatomy
- Specific subjective questions
- Vital inspections
- Cranial nerve functions and tests
- First aid
- Upper Extremity Trauma
- Review basic injury anatomy
- Specific subjective evaluation
- Bilateral inspections
- Palpation/functional tests
- First aid
- Spine Thoracic Abdominal Trauma
- Review basic injury anatomy
- Special subjective evaluation
- Vital signs and symptoms
- Palpation/functional tests
- First aid
- Lower Extremity Trauma
- Review basic injury anatomy
- Subjective evaluation
- Bilateral inspection
- Palpation/functional tests
- First aid
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| 5. Repeatability - Moved to header area. |
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| 6. Methods of Evaluation - |
| - Quizzes
- First Aid / CPR Exam
- Written project
- Oral/Practical Examination
- 100% A
- 89% B
- 79% C
- 69% D
0-59% F
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| 7. Representative Text(s) - |
| Prentice, William E. Arnheim's Principles of Athletic Training. New York,NY: McGraw-Hill,2006
American Red Cross. First Aid/CPR/AED for Schools and the Community. Yardley,PA: Stay Well, 2006
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| 8. Disciplines - |
| Physical Education
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| 9. Method of Instruction - No content |
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| 10. Lab Content - |
| - Hands on practice with CPR manicans
- Hands on evaluation of musculo-skeletal injuries
- Hands on practice of basic first aid skills
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| 11. Honors Description - No longer used. Integrated into main description section. |
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| 12. Types and/or Examples of Required Reading, Writing and Outside of Class Assignments - |
| Reading Assignments
- Weekly reading assignments from texts
- Discussions/Chat Online
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| 13. Need/Justification - |
| This course is a required core course for the AS degree in Athletic Injury Care and satisfies the Foothill GE Requirement for Area VII, Lifelong Learning.
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