Description: Provides an overview of potentially life-threatening illnesses and injuries encountered in emergency situations or in the critically ill patient. Provides the physician assistant student with the essentials of assessment and management for the initial evaluation, stabilization, assessment, management and treatment, patient education, disposition and follow-up of an acutely ill patient requiring expeditious medical, surgical, or psychiatric attention, including awareness of special considerations and cultural diversity of patient populations.
Prerequisites: PA-1250 Clinical Pharmacology , and PA-1610 Clinical Medicine II , and admission to the Physician Assistant Program.
Hours: 4 Lecture: 4
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