Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60
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
Recent societal events have focused on misconduct by law enforcement and improper use of chokeholds and other restraint mechanisms. But police officers are not the only ones who may act improperly, causing harm to others. It happens in EMS agencies, too! This dynamic and thought-provoking session will discuss the legal liability and the untoward medical effects of physical and chemical restraints. In this course, you'll hear from two legal and clinical experts as they address the challenging “dual role” of the EMS practitioner in ensuring both patient and bystander safety and at the same time remaining an ardent patient advocate when dealing with difficult patients or persons in custody.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Keeping an ambulance and the equipment inside clean is vital to protecting the crew and the patients. In this ...
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60
In Today's environments one never knows what they may be walking into as an EMT or Paramedic and this course is a ...
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60
EMS research and evidence-based guidelines guide and inform how we treat our patients every day. In this course, the panel will present several recent scientific papers and discuss their findings. The panel will then discuss the relevance to EMS providers and how literature may affect our practice.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60min
Recent research found that there are an estimated 313,000 victims of human trafficking in Texas alone. National ...
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60
A stroke occurs in the U.S. every 40 seconds. Rapid intervention has shown great increases in the quality of life for those recovering from strokes. Mobile stroke units are designed to help reach stroke patients quickly and improve survival rates. This course will discuss considerations for EMS involving the use of mobile stroke care units.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Regardless of the patient's age, the goal is the same - to provide safe and timely transport for the patient. ...
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60
This course reviews the science of pediatric cardiac arrest and the development of criteria for futility in ...
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60
Verifying that a scene is safe is drilled into every EMT and paramedic from day one, but the reality is that no scene is ever 100% danger-free. There is danger in assuming that a scene is and will remain safe. In this course, we will explore ways to make the scene as safe as possible.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60
