During a weeklong training session, emergency medical training students enrolled in Levittown’s Gerald R. Claps Career and Technical Center’s New York State Emergency Medical Technician course learned about patient assessment with Nassau County EMS Academy instructor Timothy Farrell.
As part of the national and New York State emergency medical training curriculum, the students learned how to evaluate a patient suffering a medical or trauma emergency. They also learned to analyze vital signs (blood pressure, respiration and circulation), to determine the nature of an illness, and form a general impression about the course of treatment for a patient. The course also prepared the students for the EMT Practical Examination.
