2025 NCCP Model: What Changed and How It Affects Your Refresher Hours
Right-sided heart failure can have serious consequences. Learn the causes, signs, physiology, and treatment options for right ventricular failure.
A Day in the Life: Balancing EMS Shifts, Family, and Continuing Education
Right-sided heart failure can have serious consequences. Learn the causes, signs, physiology, and treatment options for right ventricular failure.
Peer Support in EMS: Why It Works and How to Access It
Right-sided heart failure can have serious consequences. Learn the causes, signs, physiology, and treatment options for right ventricular failure.
CAPCE vs. State-Approved CE: Do You Need Both?
Right-sided heart failure can have serious consequences. Learn the causes, signs, physiology, and treatment options for right ventricular failure.
State-by-State NREMT Reciprocity: What EMTs Need to Know Before Moving
Right-sided heart failure can have serious consequences. Learn the causes, signs, physiology, and treatment options for right ventricular failure.
Recognizing Burnout Before It Costs You Your Career
Right-sided heart failure can have serious consequences. Learn the causes, signs, physiology, and treatment options for right ventricular failure.
Gestational Changes Demystified
Learn how pregnancy affects the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, including changes in blood volume, blood pressure, ventilation, airway anatomy, and clotting. Understanding these physiologic changes helps EMS providers anticipate complications and safely assess and treat pregnant patients.
Congenital Heart Defects Demystified
Congenital Heart Defects (CHD’s) are the most common type of birth defect and can
affect approximately 1% of all live births worldwide. In the United States, this adds up to about
40,000 newborns annually.
Pediatric Meningitis Demystified
Pediatric Meningitis, while relatively rare, can have devastating effects. Meningitis is defined as an inflammation of the meningeal layers that surround not only the brain but also the spinal cord. It typically affects children under the age of 5 due the fact that their immune systems are still not fully developed. Other groups that are [...]
Fueling the Front Line: Healthy Eating and Hydration Tips for EMS Providers
As Donut day just happened I thought I would use the nutrition class I took to share some tidbits about eating healthier as EMS providers spend their shifts caring for everyone else, often while running on caffeine, gas-station snacks, and whatever food can be eaten between calls. Long shifts, missed meals, heat exposure, physical exertion, and [...]