Responding to calls from patients who require accurate pulse oximetry readings can happen often. It’s important to be prepared to do so and understand different aspects of pulse oximetry. For example, reasons you may get an erroneous reading and different parts of the body to use to get a reading from. In this course, we will review these topics and more to create a list of ten things EMS providers should know about pulse oximetry.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
In this course, Deputy Chief Michael McCart discusses how the fire service is in need of evolving to having safer, smarter ambulances. McCart explains current ambulance features and how they are work in order to keep passengers and crew members safe. In addition, McCart discussing the how's and why's ambulances need to be adapted to be safer and smarter and the advice he is giving in order to make this possible.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Arriving at the scene of an active shooter event means many things for emergency medical providers. First, it's considering the different kinds of response that must occur here to protect victims, other providers, and yourself. Second, it's identifying the need for triage for the trauma patients you will face. Third, it's providing the proper levels of care to victims. And lastly, it's ensuring you are keeping yourself safe. Understanding the whole picture when responding to an active shooter event is imperative to a successful, safe response.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Carbon monoxide (CO) is colorless, odorless, and tasteless, making it difficult to identify without the use of a detector. It is created during an incomplete combustion of organic materials, and can be released from many different sources, like car exhaust, burning of natural gases, and forest fires. Patients suffering from acute carbon monoxide poisoning can have immediate and long-lasting effects from exposure. In this course we will review actions EMS providers should take when working with patients suffering from CO poisoning, the delayed injuries that may be caused, and what EMS providers should look for when diagnosing.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Patients that can’t breathe require immediate and precise intervention. When the call comes, you need to be ready. Assessment and management of the airway is a vital component in the pre-hospital provider’s repertoire. This course will examine key aspects of airway assessment and management to ensure the advanced provider is well-prepared to respond to respiratory emergencies in the field.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Many studies have been done comparing the results of different methods to use when responding to patients suffering from cardiac arrest and the best techniques to use for the highest rate of survival. Throughout this course, some of those studies will be compared to show the results and which techniques were found to be most successful in patient survival.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
While unaided, manual CPR has been done for a long time and has saved many lives. Now, devices are available to increase survivability and benefit patients in need of this life-saving maneuver. Throughout this course, we will compare the results of device-aided CPR to manual unaided, as well as discuss the effects of CPR on the body.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Allergic reactions, including their more severe form, anaphylaxis, represent an exaggerated or hypersensitive response following exposure to any of a number of triggers or allergens, like food, medications, or pollen. Allergic and anaphylactic reactions are typically but not always mediated by the immune system and are most notable for the fact that many other people would not experience any such reaction when exposed to the same triggers. Anaphylaxis represents the more severe and potentially life-threatening form of an allergic reaction. Your ability to recognize and treat allergic reactions can mean the difference between life and death for some patients. In this course, we'll discuss how the immune system may trigger allergic reactions, anaphylaxis recognition and treatment, as well as epinephrine administration.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Allergic reactions, including their more severe form, anaphylaxis, represent an exaggerated or hypersensitive response following exposure to any of a number of triggers or allergens, like food, medications, or pollen. Allergic and anaphylactic reactions are typically but not always mediated by the immune system and are most notable for the fact that many other people would not experience any such reaction when exposed to the same triggers. Anaphylaxis represents the more severe and potentially life-threatening form of an allergic reaction. Your ability to recognize and treat allergic reactions can mean the difference between life and death for some patients. In this course, we'll discuss how the immune system may trigger allergic reactions, anaphylaxis recognition and treatment, as well as epinephrine administration.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
As an emergency medical technician or paramedic, you are responsible for treating patients on the scene to your scope of practice and getting patients to the hospital quickly and safely. This can be difficult, especially when driving in unfamiliar territory or dealing with traffic congestion. This course will discuss critical elements of driving emergency response vehicles safely and effectively.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
What’s the difference between anaphylactic and anaphylactoid, and do I need to care? What are the most important ALS medications for anaphylaxis after epinephrine? What the heck is Kounis syndrome? Why didn't they teach me this in class? The past 10 years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of cases of anaphylaxis across the United States. In response, the American College of Emergency Physicians and the World Allergy Organization have issued important updates on initial emergency treatment for patients suffering from anaphylaxis. While epinephrine remains the frontline drug for all levels of care, recent studies show that in-hospital and pre-hospital providers aren’t giving it as often or as early as they should. This interactive case study and pub quiz style presentation answers these questions and many more with a focus on rapid differential of anaphylaxis and effective initial and secondary treatments to manage these immediately life-threatening emergencies.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Social media has evolved into a regular part of how our society shares information, opinions, and perspectives. By some measures, it has become the primary method used many members of society to express themselves altogether. This course examines our tendency to express our stressors through social media and the implications it can have that are specific to EMS providers. We’ll also examine best practices for both EMS department social media accounts as well as personal EMS provider accounts.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
