When you provide first aid, it is important that you help both the victim and yourself. Take this course to find out how to avoid legal liability, prevent disease transmission and determine how and when to move victims. This course will remind you how to assess the scene and the victim as well as how to recognize cardiac incidents, perform CPR, treat choking and put victims in the recovery position. This course will also discuss bleeding control, shock and anaphylaxis, burns and electrical shock, sudden illnesses, as well as poisonings and bites. Additionally, this course will also refresh your memory for initial treatment of brain, spine, chest, abdominal, and pelvic injuries as well as bone, joint, and muscle injuries. Lastly, this course will discuss cold and heat emergencies.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 5 min
This Medic Moment course was developed in partnership with Yale New Haven Health Center for EMS. This course demonstrates how to use CPAP to support a patient having trouble breathing with the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP).
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 4 min
This Medic Moment course was developed in partnership with Yale New Haven Health Center for EMS. This course demonstrates how to assess a patient with a cervical spine injury to determine if they require a cervical collar.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 4 min
This microlearning course was recorded at FDIC and JEMS Con with expert Mark Litwinko describing the importance of ballistic protection and help from law enforcement when responding to active threat events.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 6 min
This Medic Moment course was developed in partnership with Yale New Haven Health Center for EMS. This course demonstrates how to safely apply a cervical collar to a supine patient with a C-spine injury, and how to safely move them from a scene.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 6 min
This Medic Moment microlearning course was developed in partnership with Yale New Haven Health Center for EMS. This course demonstrates how to perform defibrillation for patients in cardiac arrest using the LifePak15.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 12 min
This Medic Moment course was developed in partnership with Yale New Haven Health Center for EMS. This course demonstrates how to start intravenous (IV) access in a patient.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 8 min
This Medic Moment course was developed in partnership with Yale New Haven Health Center for EMS. This course demonstrates how to establish IO access in both the proximal tibia and humeral head sites.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 12 min
This Medic Moment course was developed in partnership with Yale New Haven Health Center for EMS. This course demonstrates the procedure for administering an intramuscular (IM) injection.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 8 min
This Medic Moment course was developed in partnership with Yale New Haven Health Center for EMS. This course demonstrates how to administer an IV bolus to a patient.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 6 min
This Medic Moment course was developed in partnership with Yale New Haven Health Center for EMS. This course demonstrates how to properly insert an NPA into a patient’s nasal cavity as a BLS airway.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 44 min
This Medic Moment course was developed in partnership with Yale New Haven Health Center for EMS. This course demonstrates how to use needle decompression to assist a patient experiencing tension pneumothorax.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 6 min