EMS Training and Education
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EMS Training and Education Resources
Practical, authentic ways to show gratitude and strengthen community ties with the people who respond first when it matters most
5 tips to quickly find a patient’s radial pulse for vital sign assessment
Educating patients at the highest risk for suffering a fatal overdose
Our cohosts tackle system design, enhancing education standards and personal accountability
Steve Whitehead asks, does your pulse ox probe fail you, or do you fail it?
A verbal attack can be personal; here’s how to deflect the attack and minimize the damage
The training teaches troops how to create a fully functioning medical system in a remote location
Michigan students will learn and practice hands-only CPR and how to use an AED
Participants rotated between being a rescuer, acting as a rigging guy, working the belay rope and between the haul team
Our co-hosts discuss uses, challenges and letting EMTs administer ketamine
Test your ability to apply the START algorithm to a collection of simulated MCI patients
Discuss your duty to extricate a patient from a remote location and what equipment is available to you
Follow these methods to successfully assess and treat older patients
A task that is hard for some paramedic students may be easier for others; here’s what our readers had to say
Measuring the time to epinephrine administration as a continuous variable shows time-dependent nature of epinephrine administration
A gunman’s attack at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is a reminder of soft-target vulnerability and to prepare everyone to “stop the bleed”
This “it takes a public safety village” approach to officer training is successful and repeatable in any jurisdiction
Continuing education is more than a requirement; it is a benefit that to help providers do their jobs better
EMTs can easily learn how to use capnography as a patient assessment and monitoring tool
Education and acceptance of addiction as a disease is needed for EMS to bridge the empathy gap and join the effort to solve the opioid overdose epidemic
The top videos of December featured clips on when to use a nasopharyngeal airway and prehospital use of ketamine
Here’s a look at what to do when an ice rescue victim cannot be seen from the surface
Follow the mantra “a patient isn’t dead unless they are warm and dead” based on assessment findings and knowing resuscitation contraindications
Here are five things I learned about becoming an EMT 20 years after I first became an EMT
The drill simulated a massive terror attack on a girl’s high school
Schools are encouraged to use “locally available resources to provide the instruction,” including EMTs, paramedics and firefighters
The program is offered entirely online through the school’s college of graduate and professional studies and allows certified and licensed professionals to advance their careers
The project is also using local paramedics to fill gaps in the treatment of tuberculosis patients
Union officials said the move to respond to non-urgent calls will endanger patients’ lives
On-the-job advice culled from interviewing EMTs and paramedics with more than 30 years of field experience
Adam Walton said victims have 45 minutes to an hour before they lose all ability to help themselves
