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Fire and EMS personnel come to work ready to face any call that comes their way. When facing a difficult call, resting at the station between calls, or interacting with other personnel, there may be times that an individual is made to feel uncomfortable in their working environment. Every employee deserves to work in an environment free from harassment. In this course, we’ll examine what constitutes sexual harassment, ways to prevent it, and how to cultivate a safe working environment.

In this webinar, learners will be introduced to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and its broad applications. It is a well-established therapy, and its use is becoming more widespread. Most tertiary facilities have ECMO programs and capability. EMS personnel could be called on to transport these critically ill patients, and this lecture provides a broad overview. ECMO has been used in the field as a resuscitative adjunct. In the future, it is possible that some centers in the United States may consider this option. In this course, Dr. Misselbeck also provides a provocative look at the potential of this emerging technology for the future.

This course will discuss treating cardiac emergencies in the pre-hospital environment. Topics discussed include predicting patient flow, the cardiovascular system, pit crew CPR, cardiac arrest strategies, cardiac arrest drugs, dysrhythmia, ACLS, what to do if the rhythm is too slow or too fast, and other cardio vascular diseases.

This course will examine current trends in burn care for both pediatric and adult patients. We will discuss triage and stabilization, airway and inhalation injury, burn shock and edema, escharotomy, calculating burn size, types of burns, and clinical studies.

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.

Continuous Positive Airway Pressure or CPAP is a BLS and ALS tools that can save lives, reduce hospitalization times, and provide better patient management in the field. This presentation provides a history of CPAP, overview of patient selection criteria, standards of care, assessment, application of CPAP in the field and transition of care to the Emergency Department. Disposable CPAP devices and use of capnography with the application and titration of CPAP promise to increase utilization and improve patient outcomes.

This course will discuss considerations for utilizing non-invasive ventilation such as CPAP, BiPAP, and nasal capnography in the pre-hospital environment.

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.

EMS providers are aware that lifting and moving patients is a high-risk activity both for the patient and for the provider. This presentation will provide a framework for EMS in how to make the risk assessment when faced with lifting and moving challenges. Whether or not to allow a patient to walk to the transport unit or whether to take the time and effort involved in a difficult carry is a decision EMS is faced with every shift. We will also review a legal case in which EMS was sued for walking a cardiac patient down stairs.

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.

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.

Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID—previously known as mental retardation) have characteristics that can have a profoundly challenging impact on interactions with EMS providers during a medical or traumatic emergency. This course will discuss various characteristics of individuals with ID; suggestions for determining capacity and obtaining informed consent; ways to assess for pain; and suggestions to help facilitate assessment, treatment, and transport.

As a first responder, you may encounter varying types of bloodborne and airborne pathogens. It is necessary to be prepared for these circumstances so that you are better equipped to protect yourself and others and help to stop the spread of potentially dangerous pathogens. This course will discuss bloodborne and airborne pathogens, including the use of personal protective equipment and controlling exposure.

Hazards are present in many aspects of EMS. When you’re focusing on the patient, it can be difficult to think of some of the smaller or unseen dangers to first responders. This course will discuss what EMS providers can do to identify symptoms and protect themselves from infectious and communicable diseases such as hepatitis, HIV, tuberculosis, influenza, norovirus, and coronaviruses.

The EMS way tends to be “That is how we have always done it.” This most dangerous statement illustrates to not change anything, do what you are told, and be quiet. Are we still doing things this way and, if so, why? Our world is ever evolving, and things need to change, but that means working out our differences. Let’s talk about the everyday conflict we encounter and make things more “fluid” to let this change take place.

?Lifting patients onto stretchers for transport is a common occurrence in EMS. Unfortunately, lifts performed improperly can lead to EMS providers getting hurt. In this course, we’ll discuss the potential hazards from finding patients in hard to reach locations and the need for utilizing proper lifting techniques to prevent injury.

Another overdose … great! Can you figure out what the patient overdosed on from how he presented? Today’s street drugs are ever evolving. From the different types of Fentanyl to exquisite drugs like DMT, the names keep changing, so shouldn’t we when assessing them? Come see what the more common drugs are out there, how they are consumed, and how we can look at the patients to identify what they could be on.

When there’s a life-threatening cardiac emergency, time is of the essence. 12-lead ECGs are useful diagnostic tools, but clinicians must be able to accurately and quickly identify life-threatening emergencies. This course will discuss ECG interpretation in the prehospital environment and give the learner practice interpreting sample ECGs.

Sporting events, concerts, fairs, political gatherings, and graduations are just a few events that can take place within your community. As EMS providers, what do you need to do to keep attendees safe and well? This course will discuss ways to partner with the event planner and why you need to have a written emergency medical plan for all high-stakes events within your community.

Crew Resource Management (CRM) or non-technical skills are the social, cognitive, and personal resource skills that complement a worker’s technical skills. Initially developed in the air transport industry, CRM training has been adopted by all branches of the United States military and is being integrated into both the medical and emergency services.

Burnout among EMS professionals has negative effects for agencies, providers, and patients. Nevertheless, traditional interventions for reducing burnout are often focused on the individual and fail to address the true systematic causes. In this course, Dr. Remle Crowe will discuss the latest research and present organizational-level strategies to reduce and prevent burnout at your EMS agency.

Events involving demonstrations and protests disrupt normal EMS operations and require a coordinated medical response with properly trained and oriented personnel who can move on a moment’s notice and in accordance with a special command and control structure. Planning and capabilities to support Civil Disobedience Units and other law enforcement assets during these special events require a high level of coordination between all public safety entities and the medical system. Traditional EMS training does not account for operating in these dangerous and fast-changing environments and is not generally adequate to support these challenging situations. This course will address these differences and how EMS can support the needs of both law enforcement and the entire community during civil disturbances and unrest.

This microlearning course was recorded at JEMS Con and FDIC with expert William Ferguson. It explains the planning required to prepare for ocular injuries.

This microlearning course was recorded at JEMS Con and FDIC, with expert Jared Ross talking about how EMS systems developed and how integrating AEDs with police was the start of EMS and Law Enforcement collaborations.

This microlearning course was recorded at JEMS Con and FDIC with expert Jared Ross speaking about how to create an integrated program with Law Enforcement if you do not have one.

In this webinar, learners will be introduced to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and its broad applications. It is a well-established therapy, and its use is becoming more widespread. Most tertiary facilities have ECMO programs and capability. EMS personnel could be called on to transport these critically ill patients, and this lecture provides a broad overview. ECMO has been used in the field as a resuscitative adjunct. In the future, it is possible that some centers in the United States may consider this option. In this course, Dr. Misselbeck also provides a provocative look at the potential of this emerging technology for the future.

This course will discuss treating cardiac emergencies in the pre-hospital environment. Topics discussed include predicting patient flow, the cardiovascular system, pit crew CPR, cardiac arrest strategies, cardiac arrest drugs, dysrhythmia, ACLS, what to do if the rhythm is too slow or too fast, and other cardio vascular diseases.

This course will examine current trends in burn care for both pediatric and adult patients. We will discuss triage and stabilization, airway and inhalation injury, burn shock and edema, escharotomy, calculating burn size, types of burns, and clinical studies.

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.

Continuous Positive Airway Pressure or CPAP is a BLS and ALS tools that can save lives, reduce hospitalization times, and provide better patient management in the field. This presentation provides a history of CPAP, overview of patient selection criteria, standards of care, assessment, application of CPAP in the field and transition of care to the Emergency Department. Disposable CPAP devices and use of capnography with the application and titration of CPAP promise to increase utilization and improve patient outcomes.

This course will discuss considerations for utilizing non-invasive ventilation such as CPAP, BiPAP, and nasal capnography in the pre-hospital environment.

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.

EMS providers are aware that lifting and moving patients is a high-risk activity both for the patient and for the provider. This presentation will provide a framework for EMS in how to make the risk assessment when faced with lifting and moving challenges. Whether or not to allow a patient to walk to the transport unit or whether to take the time and effort involved in a difficult carry is a decision EMS is faced with every shift. We will also review a legal case in which EMS was sued for walking a cardiac patient down stairs.

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.

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.

Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID—previously known as mental retardation) have characteristics that can have a profoundly challenging impact on interactions with EMS providers during a medical or traumatic emergency. This course will discuss various characteristics of individuals with ID; suggestions for determining capacity and obtaining informed consent; ways to assess for pain; and suggestions to help facilitate assessment, treatment, and transport.

As a first responder, you may encounter varying types of bloodborne and airborne pathogens. It is necessary to be prepared for these circumstances so that you are better equipped to protect yourself and others and help to stop the spread of potentially dangerous pathogens. This course will discuss bloodborne and airborne pathogens, including the use of personal protective equipment and controlling exposure.

Hazards are present in many aspects of EMS. When you’re focusing on the patient, it can be difficult to think of some of the smaller or unseen dangers to first responders. This course will discuss what EMS providers can do to identify symptoms and protect themselves from infectious and communicable diseases such as hepatitis, HIV, tuberculosis, influenza, norovirus, and coronaviruses.

The EMS way tends to be “That is how we have always done it.” This most dangerous statement illustrates to not change anything, do what you are told, and be quiet. Are we still doing things this way and, if so, why? Our world is ever evolving, and things need to change, but that means working out our differences. Let’s talk about the everyday conflict we encounter and make things more “fluid” to let this change take place.

?Lifting patients onto stretchers for transport is a common occurrence in EMS. Unfortunately, lifts performed improperly can lead to EMS providers getting hurt. In this course, we’ll discuss the potential hazards from finding patients in hard to reach locations and the need for utilizing proper lifting techniques to prevent injury.

Another overdose … great! Can you figure out what the patient overdosed on from how he presented? Today’s street drugs are ever evolving. From the different types of Fentanyl to exquisite drugs like DMT, the names keep changing, so shouldn’t we when assessing them? Come see what the more common drugs are out there, how they are consumed, and how we can look at the patients to identify what they could be on.

Sporting events, concerts, fairs, political gatherings, and graduations are just a few events that can take place within your community. As EMS providers, what do you need to do to keep attendees safe and well? This course will discuss ways to partner with the event planner and why you need to have a written emergency medical plan for all high-stakes events within your community.

Crew Resource Management (CRM) or non-technical skills are the social, cognitive, and personal resource skills that complement a worker’s technical skills. Initially developed in the air transport industry, CRM training has been adopted by all branches of the United States military and is being integrated into both the medical and emergency services.

When there’s a life-threatening cardiac emergency, time is of the essence. 12-lead ECGs are useful diagnostic tools, but clinicians must be able to accurately and quickly identify life-threatening emergencies. This course will discuss ECG interpretation in the prehospital environment and give the learner practice interpreting sample ECGs.

Burnout among EMS professionals has negative effects for agencies, providers, and patients. Nevertheless, traditional interventions for reducing burnout are often focused on the individual and fail to address the true systematic causes. In this course, Dr. Remle Crowe will discuss the latest research and present organizational-level strategies to reduce and prevent burnout at your EMS agency.

Events involving demonstrations and protests disrupt normal EMS operations and require a coordinated medical response with properly trained and oriented personnel who can move on a moment’s notice and in accordance with a special command and control structure. Planning and capabilities to support Civil Disobedience Units and other law enforcement assets during these special events require a high level of coordination between all public safety entities and the medical system. Traditional EMS training does not account for operating in these dangerous and fast-changing environments and is not generally adequate to support these challenging situations. This course will address these differences and how EMS can support the needs of both law enforcement and the entire community during civil disturbances and unrest.

This microlearning course was recorded at JEMS Con and FDIC with expert William Ferguson. It explains the planning required to prepare for ocular injuries.

This microlearning course was recorded at JEMS Con and FDIC, with expert Jared Ross talking about how EMS systems developed and how integrating AEDs with police was the start of EMS and Law Enforcement collaborations.

This microlearning course was recorded at JEMS Con and FDIC with expert Jared Ross speaking about how to create an integrated program with Law Enforcement if you do not have one.

This microlearning course was recorded at JEMS Con and FDIC with expert Jared Ross speaks on how important it is to start early to collaborate on law enforcement and EMS needs.

Fire and EMS personnel come to work ready to face any call that comes their way. When facing a difficult call, resting at the station between calls, or interacting with other personnel, there may be times that an individual is made to feel uncomfortable in their working environment. Every employee deserves to work in an environment free from harassment. In this course, we’ll examine what constitutes sexual harassment, ways to prevent it, and how to cultivate a safe working environment.

What do most great employees have in common? Stellar communication skills. In this course, you’ll learn why having excellent communication skills is so important in the workplace, and how you can improve yours.

Many of us took courses on writing in elementary school or even high school, however, there are specific requirements for business writing. In this general education course, you’ll learn why excellent business writing skills are so crucial in the workplace and how you can improve those skills.

Resolving conflict between employees can be difficult. This general education course explains the common causes of conflict. It also gives you six full-proof steps to mediate conflict and how to deal with angry or frustrated employees.

Reports of online scams and cyberattacks are on the rise, but most people don’t heed them until it’s too late. So, what steps can you take right away to avoid becoming another cautionary tale? One critical security measure is protecting yourself against phishing—when an attacker pretends to be a trusted contact or organization to gain access to personal information. This general education course provides foundational information on this subject, not specific to Fire and EMS operations.

As a first-time manager, you likely feel a mixture of excitement and apprehension about your new role. What changes should you expect? How can you build rapport and make a good first impression with your new team? And above all, how can you become an effective boss? This guide will help you transition seamlessly from employee to manager. This general education course provides foundational information on this subject, not specific to Fire and EMS operations.

Individuals with autism are seven times more likely to interact with first responders than the average citizen. To properly respond to calls with individuals who have autism, first responders must understand what autism is, best practices, and associated dangers. This course will discuss specific hazards unique to fire and EMS and recommend best practices to protect those with autism, their loved ones, and first responders.