24-7 EMS Online: Entrapped Patients (V2)

Product Code: EMS1074

Entrapped patients present unique challenges. This class focuses on the basics: scene safety, establishing medical command, patient care, adapting your assessments, and calling for resources before you need them.

Featuring Ed Dickinson, MD, NREMT-P, Director of EMS Field Operations, University of Pennsylvania Hospital

24-7 EMS Online: Bariatric Patient: Care and Transport (V2)

Product Code: EMS1083

This program illustrates the assessment, treatment, and transport of a morbidly obese patient. Morbidly obese patients often suffer from a multitude of health concerns; assessments can be complex and may need to be modified.

It is important for EMS not to get caught up in the operational aspects of transport and to remember these patients need care and respect.

Featuring Richard Beebe, M.ED, RN, NREMT-P, Assistant Professor at SUNY in Cobleskill New York

24-7 EMS Online: Managing Multiple Patients: EMS Operations (V2)

Product Code: EMS1090

This program focuses on planning and practicing for large-scale events in your community and stresses the importance of knowing what constitutes an MCI in your jurisdiction.

By using the incident command system on every incident to which you respond, you increase your success during large, complex, and emotional events.

Featuring: Lt. Colin Whitmore, EMS incident commander during the Virginia Tech school shooting. Jon Politis, NREMT-P, MPA, EMS Chief in Town of Colonie, New York

24-7 EMS Online: Patient Refusal (V2)

Product Code: EMS1091

How can responders convince patients to accept treatment and transport? What is the best way to document refusal of treatment? A review of the important ways responders can document and protect themselves from future liability in patient refusal situations.

Featuring: Richard Patrick, MS, EMT-P, Department of Homeland Security. Dan Limmer, EMT-P, author, Brady - Emergency Care

24-7 EMS Online: Extended Patient Care Transports (V2)

Product Code: EMS1105

Extended patient care refers to managing the overall safety and well-being of a patient when there is a longer-than-expected transport time involved in transferring a patient from the scene of a medical emergency or traumatic injury to a definitive care facility.

During an extended transport, patient care and comfort is a dynamic process, and requires ongoing observation and adjustment to ensure the patient’s continued well-being and safety. This course defines the techniques to follow in applying care and treatment protocols in order to ensure the patient’s maximum comfort and safety and improve patient outcomes.

Featuring Kevin T Collopy, BA, FP-C, CCEMT-P, WEMT, Performance Improvement Coordinator, AirLink, VitaLink, Pilots, New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington NC.

24-7 EMS Online: Capnography (V2)

Product Code: EMS1060

Capnography is a technology that provides a graphic picture and an objective measure of a patient's ventilatory status.

While not a new technology, capnography is a hot topic now because of its reference in the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) Guidelines, and more states are requiring it as part of their intubation protocol.

This course provides an overview of the intubated uses of capnography, a summary of the use of capnography in the treatment of asthma, and an in-depth presentation of the less common, non-intubated uses of capnography.

Featuring Troy Smith, LPN, NREMT-Paramedic, AS Snohomish, Washington.

24-7 EMS Online: Field Triage Update (V2)

Product Code: EMS1065

Field triage is a decision scheme for assessing and selecting a transport destination for individual trauma patients.

The decision making process is based on a document released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called “Guidelines for Field Triage of Injured Patients.” This program reviews the recommendations of the guidelines and the changes in field triage.

Featuring Doctor John McManus, Director at the Center for Pre-Deployment Medicine for the US Army at Fort Sam Houston Texas

24-7 EMS Online: 12-Lead Electrocardiogram (ECG) (V2)

Product Code: EMS1066

In current EMS practice, paramedics and nurses are now expected to be able to use the 12-Lead ECG for early recognition of ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and then fast track patients for immediate physician review and treatment.

This course reviews the importance of 12-Lead ECGs, how to correctly apply the chest and limb electrodes for an accurate reading, and an update on the best practices.

Also covered are the most frequently encoutnered errors of 12-Lead ECGs, the importance of obtaining 12-Lead ECGs with an emphasis on ST-elevation, capturing clear ECGs for analysis, and reducing false positives and STEMI imitators.

Featuring Tim Phalen Author and Educator, ECG Solutions, Inc.

24-7 EMS Online: Interpreting Vital Signs (V2)

Product Code: EMS1001

By correctly interpreting vital signs, the EMS professional can indentify life-threatening emergencies, predict the severity of a patient's hemodynamic state, determine treatement and correctly monitor the overall condition of the patient.

This course reviews the importance of assessing and interpreting the vital signs and how to use these findings to improve the quality of patient care.

Featuring Lt. Anthony Tedesco, BSN, RN, NREMT-P Clearwater Fire & Rescue St. Petersburg College - EMS Program

24-7 EMS Online: Medical Assessment: Syncope (V2)

Product Code: EMS1014

Emphasizes the significance of syncopal episodes as first and only warning signs for very serious causes—the four most common are reviewed.

History and on-scene assessment are often the most critical information that emergency departments receive.

Featuring William Raynovich, Director of EMS Education, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska