Denver Health EMS Scenarios

Scenario practice that teaches clinical judgment.

The scenario engine turns course knowledge into patient-care decisions with prompts, vitals, branching findings, intervention choices, documentation practice, peer review, and instructor-ready rubrics.

Dispatch

Chief complaint, scene type, units assigned, and early hazards.

Scene size-up

Safety, PPE, mechanism/nature, number of patients, and resources.

Assessment

General impression, ABCs, history, vitals, primary/secondary assessment.

Interventions

Airway, breathing, circulation, medications, immobilization, and transport decisions.

Debrief

Rubric feedback, missed cues, alternative decisions, and remediation links.

Seeded scenario library

Patient presentations to build first

Asthma/COPD respiratory distress

ACS chest pain with atypical symptoms

Stroke/TIA with time-last-known-well

Hypoglycemia altered mental status

Opioid overdose

Violent or combative patient

Cardiac arrest with high-performance CPR

Hemorrhagic shock from extremity trauma

Multi-casualty incident triage

Burn and inhalation risk

Head and spinal trauma

Pregnancy with delivery complication

Newborn resuscitation

Pediatric respiratory failure

Abdominal pain with hidden shock risk