First Responder • Emergency Medical Technician • ACLS • AMLS • GEMS • ITLS • PALS • PEPP • CPR • Rescue
First Responder
Description: The First Responder is an integral part of the Emergency Medical Services System. This course follows the current National Standard Curriculum developed by the Department of Transportation (DOT). The goal is to provide students with the core knowledge, skills, and attitudes to function in the capacity of a First Responder. The First Responder uses limited amounts of equipment to perform initial assessment and intervention and is trained to assist other EMS providers. This level is not intended to be utilized as the minimum staffing for a Basic Life Support (BLS) ambulance. It is recognized there may be additional specific education, i.e., vital signs, oxygen, advanced airways, automated external defibrillators, and spineboards which may differ from locality to locality via medical direction.
Emergency Medical Technician - EMT-Basic
Description: The Emergency Medical Technician-Basic course follows the current National Standard Curriculum which is a core curriculum of minimum required information. The EMT-B serves as a vital link in the health care chain of survival. It is recognized that the vast majority of out of hospital care will be provided by the EMT-Basic. This course will include all skills and classroom information necessary to provide Emergency care at the Basic Life Support level. The EMT-B level could be utilized in a Basic Life Support ambulance service, or other specialized rescue agency. Modules presented include: 1) Preparation of the EMT-B; 2) Airway; 3) Patient Assessment (medical and trauma); 4) Medical/Behavioral Emergencies and OB-GYN; 5) Trauma; 6) Infants and Children; 7) Ambulance Operations; 8) Interventions (medications and semi-automatic defibrillation). Upon successful completion of the EMT-B course of instruction, the student will be eligible to take the State Written and Practical Examinations.
ACLS Provider Course
Description: The ACLS course provides the knowledge and skills needed to evaluate and manage the first 10 minutes of an adult in cardiac arrest. The intended audience is for personnel staffing emergency departments, critical care departments, and emergency medical providers such as physicians, nurses, emergency technicians, paramedics, respiratory therapists, and other professionals who may respond to a cardiovascular emergency. ACLS provider certification is 16 hours and renewal certification is 8 hours.
AMLS Provider Course
Description: The Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) course is sponsored by the National Association of EMTs (NAEMT) and endorsed by the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP). It is the first course that addresses the most common medical complaints and offers a "think outside the box" method of assessing and managing a patient in medical crisis. The course emphasizes using the scene size-up, history and physical exam to systematically rule-out and rule-in possibilities and probabilities of their medical problem. This course offers the opportunity to be in an assessment-based approach and progress to a diagnostic-based approach to develop a specific treatment plan for a specific medical condition; resulting in a differential diagnosis.
Course participants encompass all levels of EMS professionals, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, certified nurse anesthetists and physicians. This diversity enhances the team approach to patient care.
AMLS is a sixteen (16) hour, two-day program that consists of interactive lectures, teaching and evaluation stations. The interactive/case based lectures include the following topics: Patient Assessment, Airway Management, , Assessment of the Shock Patient, Dyspnea/Respiratory Failure, Chest Pain, altered Mental Status, and Abdominal Pain. Teaching stations follow the associated lectures each day.
GEMS - Geriatric Education for EMS
Description: The proportion of the aged in society today is greater than ever before, and growing faster than any other segment of our population. Current indications are that approximately 34% of calls for emergency medical services, or 3.4 million emergency responses involve patients over the age of 60. GEMS represents the most credible and complete source of pre-hospital medical information for older adults.
The GEMS course is innovative, comprehensive, and highly visual with: Case-Based Lectures, live action video, hands-on skill stations, small group scenarios
ITLS Provider Course - International Trauma Life Support
Description: ITLS is a 16-hour comprehensive course that provides First Responders, EMT-B’s, and Paramedics training in the skills needed for rapid assessment, resuscitation, stabilization and transportation of trauma patients. The course is designed for providers who are the first to evaluate and stabilize trauma patients. Hands-on skill stations include basic airway management, spine management/rapid extrication, short back board, helmet management, log roll and long back board, traction splints, and patient assessment and management. The course includes the comprehensive BTLS manual, often used as a textbook in paramedic, EMT and first responder training courses.
PALS Provider Course
Description: The PALS course is designed to provide the learner with information needed to recognize infants and children at risk for cardiopulmonary arrest, information and strategies needed to prevent cardiopulmonary arrest in infants and children, and the cognitive and psychomotor skills needed to resuscitate and stabilize infants and children in respiratory failure, shock or cardiopulmonary arrest. The length of this course is 16 hours and intended for pediatricians, house staff, emergency physicians, family physicians, nurses, paramedics, respiratory therapists, and other healthcare providers who are responsible for the well-being of infants and children.
PEPP Provider Course - Pediatric Education for Prehospital Providers
Description: The PEPP Course was developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and is designed to meet the learning objectives related to the pediatric portion of the US Department of Transportation National Standard Curriculum for the EMT-Basic and EMT-Paramedic providers.
The course helps pre-hospital professionals learn and assimilate the fundamental knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for assessing and treating ill and injured children. It is especially tailored to the needs of the out-of-hospital personnel who often have to make quick decisions about the care and destination of children in the field, many times without immediate medical direction or special equipment.
ACLS Provider Course
Description: The American Heart Association's Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support course is totally redesigned for healthcare providers who either direct or participate in the resuscitation of a patient, whether in or out of hospital. Through the ACLS course, providers will enhance their skills in the treatment of the adult victim of a cardiac arrest or other cardiopulmonary emergencies. ACLS emphasizes the importance of basic life support CPR to patient survival; the integration of effective basic life support with advanced cardiovascular life support interventions; and the importance of effective team interaction and communication during resuscitation.
ACLS is based on simulated clinical scenarios that encourage active, hands-on participation through learning stations where students will practice essential skills individually, as part of a team, and as team leader. Realistic simulations reinforce the following key concepts: proficiency in basic life support care; recognizing and initiating early management of peri-arrest conditions; managing cardiac arrest; identifying and treating ischemic chest pain and acute coronary syndromes; recognizing other life-threatening clinical situations (such as stroke) and providing initial care; ACLS algorithms; and effective resuscitation team dynamics.
Course Length: 13 ½ hours approx., including breaks
Intended Audience
The course is designed for medical providers such as physicians, nurses, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, respiratory therapists, and other professionals who may respond to a cardiovascular emergency.
BLS Instructor Course
Description: Prerequisites include current BLS-HCP card, skill demonstration with Instructor potential, application with resume and alignment with an AHA Training Center. Prior to the course instructor candidates are required to complete the Core Instructor Learning module and submit the completion certificate. Day 2 provides participants with the skills needed to create effective presentations in Basic Life Support Courses to various audiences. A BLS-Instructor and First Aid completion card is issued for all participants who successfully complete the written examinations, skill demonstration and monitoring.
BLS for Healthcare Providers
Description: Textbook Required. No prerequisite. This full day course is designed for professional rescuers who require certification. This course teaches the skills of BLS for victims of all ages, relief of foreign body airway obstruction (FBAO), use of the bag-valve mask and the automated external defibrillation (AED). A course completion card is issued for all participants who successfully complete the written examination and skills demonstration. Recommended renewal date is 2 years
Length: 4.5 Hours
Heartsaver AED
Description: The Heartsaver AED Course teaches CPR, AED use, relief of choking in adults and children, and infant CPR and relief of choking, and use of barrier devices for all ages.
Length: 3.5 hours
Heartsaver CPR
Description: The Heartsaver CPR course teaches CPR and relief of choking in adults and children, and infant CPR and relief of choking, and use of barrier devices for all ages.
Length: 3 hours
Heartsaver Friends and Family CPR
Description: The Heartsaver First Aid course teaches how to manage illness and injuries in the first few minutes until professional help arrives. Course content includes general principles about medical emergencies, and injury emergencies. Optional topics include CPR and AED, and environmental emergencies.
Length: 7.5 hours with optional topics
Heartsaver First Aid
Description: The Heartsaver First Aid course teaches how to manage illness and injuries in the first few minutes until professional help arrives. Course content includes general principles about medical emergencies, and injury emergencies. Optional topics include CPR and AED, and environmental emergencies.
Length: 7.5 hours with optional topics
Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid
Description: The Heartsaver First Aid course teaches how to manage illness and injuries in the first few minutes until professional help arrives. Course content includes general principles about medical emergencies, and injury emergencies. Optional topics include CPR and AED, and environmental emergencies.
Length: 7.5 hours with optional topics
Pediatric Advanced Life Support Course – PALS
Description: The completely redesigned American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support course is based on new science evidence from the 2005 AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC and a new teaching methodology. The goal of the PALS course is to aid the pediatric healthcare provider in developing the knowledge and skills necessary to efficiently and effectively manage critically ill infants and children, resulting in improved outcomes. Skills taught include recognition and treatment of infants and children at risk for cardiopulmonary arrest; the systematic approach to pediatric assessment; effective respiratory management; defibrillation and synchronized cardioversion; intraosseous access and fluid bolus administration; and effective resuscitation team dynamics.
Course Length: 14 hours approximately
Intended Audience:
For pediatricians, emergency physicians, family physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, paramedics, respiratory therapists, and other healthcare providers who initiate and direct advanced life support in pediatric emergencies.
Basic Vehicle Rescue - Awareness (BVRA)
Description: Upon the completion of this course the student will have an understanding of vehicle rescue, hazards of vehicle rescue operations, ICS phases of vehicle rescue. The student will also have a understanding of vehicle technology and design. This course is intended for personnel who need to have an awareness of vehicle rescue operations and how to assist a rescue company at a rescue scene.
Basic Vehicle Rescue - Operations (BVRO)
Description: Upon the completion of this course the student will have reviewed hazards of vehicle rescue operations, ICS, and have an understanding of Hand tools, Access, Patient Extrication, and the Post Rescue phases of vehicle rescue. This course is intended for personnel who have already taken the BVR Awareness course in the past. This course teaches the student the use of hand tools in vehicle rescue operations and how to access and package the patient at the accident scene. Post rescue operations are also discussed.
Basic Vehicle Rescue - Technician (BVRT)
Description: Upon the completion of this course the student will have reviewed hazards of vehicle rescue operations, ICS, Access, Disentanglement, Extrication, Tools, Vehicle Anatomy, and the Post Rescue phases of vehicle rescue. The student will have an understanding of power tools and disentanglement techniques. This course is intended for personnel who have already BVR Awareness and BVR Operations courses in the past. This course gives the student the knowledge of power tool usage and disentanglement techniques. At the end of this course the student will be able to take the written Basic Vehicle Rescue Technician certification test.
Basic Rigging for Rope Rescue (ROBR)
Description: Participants in this course will be introduced to rope, rope hardware, patient packaging, and basic haul systems, which can be used in various aspects of rescue. The intent of this course is to provide rope and basic rigging experience for anyone interested in rope rescue, but particularly those who do not want to, or are unable to rappel. Participants in this course will be introduced to characteristics of rope, rope hardware and various knots and hitches. Students will participate in patient packaging and stokes basket handling exercises. Students will be introduced to basic haul and lowering systems and their practical uses. Most of the program is hands on and time is allotted for practice to build proficiency.
Rope/High Angle Rescue I (RORE)
Description: Participants in this course will be introduced to the basic principles of rope/vertical rescue and to the basic equipment used to implement rope/vertical rescues. The basic skills required to rig, descend, stop, and get out of common problems are presented, demonstrated, and practiced. Students will become proficient at these basic skills. Students in this course will be introduced to the various types of rope and related rescue equipment. Students will be training in tying of the basic knots and hitches used in rope rescue, basic rappelling techniques, tie-offs, self-rescue, basic litter tie-ins, and basic litter handling skills. Much of the program is hands-on and time is allotted for practice in order to build proficiency.