EMS Online Training News & Articles

• Bell's palsy vs. stroke: What's the difference?

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  Here's a breakdown of differences in Bell's palsy and stroke symptoms and prehospital care differences

• How is your organization shifting public-facing events?

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  Share your tips for how you are continuing to interact with your community and members while social distancing

• A delicate balance: Understanding acid-base issues in EMS patients

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  A basic understanding of how acid-base imbalances can affect the patient's presentation can help make sense of conflicting symptoms

• NY EMS students practice lifesaving skills at home through virtual training

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  Monte Posner, executive director of the Training Institute for Medical Emergencies and Rescue, says students have found creative ways practice hands-on skills at home

• NREMT waives NCCP distributive education limits for 2021

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  EMRs, EMTs, AEMTs and paramedics will be permitted to complete all of their continuing education requirements online

• 5 things firefighters should know before going to paramedic school

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  Paramedic school is a commitment, so it’s important to invest time in a quality program

• The benefits of online EMS education

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  EMS professionals have more opportunities than ever for synchronous and asynchronous online education for refresher and recertification education

• Discriminatory item analysis: A test administrator’s best friend

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  Analyzing test question performance can help EMS educators identify where students are missing concepts and to remove the emotional burden from grading

• Active simulation in training and education

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  Using sensory cues, active simulation and stratified debriefings to help paramedic students build upon their foundational training through real-time scenarios

• The new normal: Nationwide reciprocity?

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  Will the COVID-19 pandemic accelerate the move to doing away with psychomotor exams in favor of a skills portfolio?

• 2020 EMS Trend Report: Heed industry warning signs, commit to change

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  EMS1 and Fitch & Associates take an in-depth look at EMS trends in the U.S. and set a foundation for assessing how the EMS profession is changing

• How the autonomic nervous system works

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  Understanding what the ANS does will help you understand the body's normal response to stress or lack of stress

• 10 ways to get the most out of a virtual conference

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  As fire and EMS training and events move to an online experience, follow these tips to maximize your socially distanced education and networking

• Quiz: Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems

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  Test your knowledge of complex neural systems to understand the link between treatments and therapeutic goals

• Receptors and the autonomic nervous system

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  The balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system keeps our automated body functions working properly

• Which artery do you choose for checking a patient's pulse ?

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  Assess a patient's pulse through the radial artery or the carotid artery based on their level of consciousness

• A message for the graduating classes of EMS

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  Five things you need to do every day to be successful in your career

• Doing nothing is not nothing: Learn the skills to stand up and speak out

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  Breaking a groupthink mentality requires two key skills – and support from leadership

• COVID-19 modifications for NREMT practical testing

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  Maintaining a safe environment during practical stations and psychomotor skill testing

• Do we have the right stuff?

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  What EMS can learn from the NASA/SpaceX mission and a return to space

• Bystander duty of care: Off-duty EMS liability

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  What we can learn about EMS responsibility to intervene from the death of George Floyd

• After the Pomp and Circumstance: There is so much MORE to learn

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  A random encounter with a Latvian prompted my commitment to learn something new every day

• How the first U.S. EMS agency adopted, implemented body cameras

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  Wren Nealy Jr., Cypress Creek EMS chief operating officer, relates how BWCs have contributed to personnel safety, QA/QI

• Implementing a training program to prevent EMS assaults

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  Learn how ATCEMS identified EMS training goals and implemented an assault reporting function to protect providers from violence

• 11 videos to help providers prevent violence, escalation

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  These videos from EMS1 columnists and contributors demonstrate how to predict scene safety, handle violent patient outbursts and how to maintain a safe scene on each call

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