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
This course will discuss treating cardiac emergencies in the pre-hospital environment. Topics discussed include predicting patient flow, the cardiovascular system, pit crew CPR, cardiac arrest strategies, cardiac arrest drugs, dysrhythmia, ACLS, what to do if the rhythm is too slow or too fast, and other cardio vascular diseases.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
It is critical for EMS providers to have an understanding of the ways chest pain can present between men and women. Too often, chest pain and heart attacks in female patients can go untreated and undiagnosed. This course will examine the similarities and differences men and women experience with angina and the differences in causes.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
It is critical for EMS providers to have an understanding of the ways chest pain can present between men and women. Too often, chest pain and heart attacks in female patients can go untreated and undiagnosed. This course will examine the similarities and differences men and women experience with angina and the differences in causes.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Strokes have a time critical diagnosis which makes practicing the proper prehospital care important to ensure patients are receiving life saving care. In this course, Dr. Eric Cortez discusses what a stroke is, what steps to take to identify a stroke, and how to prepare while transporting the patient to a hospital. By making sure a hospital is prepared to take on a stroke patient, EMS will be able to help shave off time from the occurrence to the time the patients are able to receive treatment. Dr. Cortez also discusses the types of strokes, their symptoms, and their various treatments.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
When there’s a life-threatening cardiac emergency, time is of the essence. 12-lead ECGs are useful diagnostic tools, but clinicians must be able to accurately and quickly identify life-threatening emergencies. This course will discuss ECG interpretation in the prehospital environment and give the learner practice interpreting sample ECGs.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
This course is a real-life look at "running a peds code." We will begin with a review of pediatric arrest physiology. This course will stress appropriate BLS management, followed by guideline-driven basic and advanced life support measures.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Prehospital stroke care continues to evolve. Over the past five years, mechanical thrombectomy has emerged as the preferred treatment option for patients presenting with large vessel occlusion strokes. EMS agencies are now being challenged to recognize large vessel occlusions on-scene and consider direct transport to comprehensive stroke centers for mechanical thrombectomy. In this course, we will review the current paradigm of prehospital stroke care, review the growing body of literature evaluating prehospital stroke severity tools, and discuss the numerous items affecting transport decisions.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
When we think of Cardiac Arrests we think about an older population with comorbidities. However, there is evidence these types of incidents can happen to anyone. This course highlights what skills you can use to improve survival rates as an EMT and Paramedic.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Good outcomes are rare when a child goes into cardiac arrest in the prehospital setting. Most EMS professionals are trained to use PALS, but is there a better way to improve these outcomes? This session will demonstrate how Polk County Fire Rescue went from 0% to 45% survival in out-of-hospital pediatric cardiac arrest patients through calculated changes in care and patient preparation.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Good outcomes are rare when a child goes into cardiac arrest in the prehospital setting. Most EMS professionals are trained to use PALS, but is there a better way to improve these outcomes? This session will demonstrate how Polk County Fire Rescue went from 0% to 45% survival in out-of-hospital pediatric cardiac arrest patients through calculated changes in care and patient preparation.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Many EMS clinicians may not regularly encounter pediatric patients, but it is necessary to be prepared to respond to any type of patient. This course will discuss pediatric respiratory arrest and cardiac arrest, including causes, prognosis, prevention, treatment, and transportation. This course will also examine poisoning and special considerations for traumatic cardiac arrest in pediatric patients.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
