BLS Pharmacology
BLS Pharmacology
Information Covered:
- Medication safety
- Kinds of Medications Used in an Emergency
- Forms of Medication
- Solid
- Pills
- Tablets – compressed powders
- Powder – inhalation
- Liquids
- Enteral (ingested)
- Parenteral (injected)
- Gases; aerosols – inhalation
- Solid
- Routes of Medication Administration
- Enteral (ingested)
- Sublingual (e.g., nitroglycerin)
- Oral (e.g., glucose)
- Parenteral (injected and inhaled)
- Inhaled (e.g., oxygen)
- Injection (e.g., epinephrine)
- Methods of injection
- subcutaneous
- intramuscular
- intravenous
- Enteral (ingested)
- Forms of Medication
- Basic Medication Terminology
- Drug Name
- Generic
- Trade
- Drug Profile
- Actions
- Pharmacodynamics – impact of age and weight upon medication administration
- Indication
- Intended effects
- Contraindications
- Side effects
- Unintended effects
- Untoward effects
- Dose
- Route
- Prescribing Information
- Actions
- Drug Name
- Assist/Administer Medications to a Patient
- Administration versus Assistance of Medications
- Assisting patients in taking prescribed medications
- Administering medication
- Medical Direction
- Off-line; standing orders, written protocols
- On-line; verbal order
- Confirmation – echo technique
- Confusion – clarification
- Medication Administration Procedure
- The “rights” of drug administration
- Right patient – prescribed to patient
- Right medication – patient condition
- Right route – patient condition
- Right dose – prescribed to patient
- Right time – within expiration date
- The “rights” of drug administration
- Techniques of Medication Administration
- Oral
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Techniques
- Sublingual
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Techniques
- Intramuscular injection by Auto injector
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Techniques
- Inhalation
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Techniques
- Oral
- Reassessment
- Data – indications for medication
- Action – medication administered
- Response – effect of medication
- Documentation
- Administration versus Assistance of Medications
- Specific Medications
- EMT – Administer Medications
- Aspirin
- Oral glucose
- Oxygen
- EMT – Assisted Medications
- Inhaled bronchodilators
- Epinephrine
- Nitroglycerin
- EMT – Administer Medications
Content Creator: Chris Hunt
CAPCE Course Number: 20-EMTP-F3-9101
Total CE Hours: 1.5
Level: Basic
NJ Course Number: 1942203877354
EMT-CE uses the NEMSES guidelines as the foundation for every course outline.