First Responders Emergency Medical Care Training CIM Course Revision

摘要

In 1973, NHTSA published a training program in emergency medical care for the first person to respond to a traffic accident. It was titled Crash Injury Management for Traffic Law Enforcement Officers and came to be known as the CIM course. This study involved revision of the CIM program to ensure that it is up to date from the point of view of both technical content and instructional strategy. The contract specified that the name of the program be chaged to First Responder: Emergency Medical Care Training Course. Suggestions for the revision effort were obtained from users as well as NHTSA expert reviewers. A reference text in emergency medical care served as a standard for the technical contents of the course; all basic life support procedures were checked with the American Heart Association. The revised course design includes 28 lessons (including one optional lesson) involving a minimum of 40 hours of training time. As with the original CIM course, the curriculum package includes an Instructor's Lesson Plans document, a Student Study Guide and a Course Guide. All three documents received a complete technical update. In addition, the Student Study Guide was expanded to include specific patient assessment and emergency care procedures.