EMT Lesson Plans

Skill Station: Mechanical CPR Device

Objectives: Demonstrate how to reposition an unconscious adult for airway management. (pp 417–418, Skill Drill 11-1)

Demonstrate how to check for a pulse at the carotid artery in an unresponsive patient. (p 417)

Demonstrate how to perform external chest compressions in an adult (pp 419–420, Skill Drill 11-2)

Demonstrate how to perform a head tilt–chin lift maneuver on an adult patient. (pp 419–421)

Demonstrate how to perform one-rescuer adult CPR. (pp 424–426, Skill Drill 11-3)

Demonstrate how to perform rescue breathing on an adult(pp 432–433)

Demonstrate how to perform two-rescuer adult. (pp 424–428, Skill Drill 11-4)

Demonstrate how to use AEDs and perform CPR. (pp 551–553, Skill Drill 14-2)

Demonstrate the use of mechanical devices that assist emergency responders in delivering improved circulatory efforts during CPR. (pp 428–429)

Instructions: This is not a scenario station – it’s a skills lab. Students should take turns applying the Autopulse until everyone has applied the device.

Precautions: DO NOT LECTURE – force your students to repeatedly drill the skill until it becomes second nature. The goal is to create muscle- memory, so repeat the drill multiple times.

Situation: You are called to a local home for a collapsed adult

Set-up: The team should have a team leader, a compressor, a ventilator, an autopulse operator, one person using the AED and one person setting up equipment such oxygen and adjuncts. You will need a full body EMT-level manikin, a Cohort Bag, and the AutoPulse device.

Instructions: Have students do several rounds of this scenario until they have all used the Autopulse.

Precautions: DO NOT LECTURE – force your students to repeatedly drill the skill until it becomes second nature. The goal is to create muscle-memory, so repeat the drill multiple times.

Basic Operation:

The team will:

- Complete a scene size-up - Complete an Primary assessment - Insert and adjunct and ventilate - Begin Manual CPR - Attach and use an AED - With minimal interruption in CPR, sit the patient up, position the Autopulse, lay the patient back down and use it to deliver 30:2 CPR