Critical Care

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ECMO Management: Pitfalls and Possibilities

10/31/2019

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a lifesaving technology that continues to grow in popularity and EMS providers may soon find themselves called on to transport these patients if not doing so already. This course will introduce...

Extracorporeal membrane...

10/31/2019

EMSWorld

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Prehospital Whole Blood for the Hemorrhaging Patient

10/31/2019

Trauma patients bleed whole blood. However, over the last three decades, trauma patients requiring resuscitation have typically received crystalloids during prehospital resuscitation and blood component therapy during in-hospital...

Trauma patients bleed whole...

10/31/2019

EMSWorld

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Unplanned Extubation in the Ground or Air Ambulance: An Under-Recognized Complication of Intubation

10/30/2019

Unplanned extubation is defined as the unintentional and premature removal of an endotracheal tube by actions of the patient or during care, movement or manipulation of the patient. Unplanned extubation results in prolonged ICU and hospital...

Unplanned extubation is defined...

10/30/2019

EMSWorld

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Back to Basics: A Overview of Clinical Pharmacokinetics

10/30/2019

This session is designed to take the learner through the basics of clinical pharmacokinetics. The session will help the learner assess drug therapy using the foundations of principles of how drugs interact with the body and the effects they...

This session is designed to take...

10/30/2019

EMSWorld

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Beyond ACLS: The Great Debate with Epinephrine, Airway Management & POCUS

10/30/2019

While ACLS provides us with a framework in treating adult victims of cardiac arrest (CA) or other cardiopulmonary emergencies, EMS is different than many environments in medicine. We get minimal information at the time of patient arrival...

While ACLS provides us with a...

10/30/2019

EMSWorld

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TEE Waves: The Promise of Prehospital Transesophageal Echocardiography

10/30/2019

Ultrasound in the prehospital environment has become a reality, and a new disposable TEE (transesophageal echocardiogram) is now available. Currently our system's physician response unit does prehospital TEE during cardiac arrest. This allows...

Ultrasound in the prehospital...

10/30/2019

EMSWorld

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Turn Your Ambulance into an ICU on Wheels

10/30/2019

This session will examine the growing role of EMS in providing critical care traditionally associated with the hospital setting, such as CT diagnostics and antibiotics. Core concepts of ICU level care in the hospital such as ventilator...

This session will examine the...

10/30/2019

EMSWorld

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Charlie Fox Cric & Common Pitfalls in the Surgical Airway

10/29/2019

Go from cric-disaster-cursed to cric-educationally-versed. We will discuss a real interfacility HEMS transport case of a Can’t Intubate Can’t Oxygenate (CICO) patient requiring a surgical airway after an unrecognized false passage. This...

Go from cric-disaster-cursed to...

10/29/2019

EMSWorld

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How Special the K: Is Ketamine Really the Wonder Drug We Think?

10/29/2019

This presentation looks at the effects of ketamine in the prehospital transport system. This will be a deep dive in to the multiple uses of ketamine and data collected over several years from a large multisystem transport program that shows...

This presentation looks at the...

10/29/2019

EMSWorld

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Pressure Doesn`t Equal Flow: Understanding Vasopressors

10/29/2019

When patients are severely hypotensive and volume resuscitation is not enough, timely use of appropriate vasopressors can be lifesaving. The selection of the appropriate vasopressor (or combination of vasoactive drugs) must be based on the...

When patients are severely...

10/29/2019

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