DistanceCME: Your Trusted Source for EMR, EMT, AEMT, and Paramedic Refreshers Staying current with your EMS certification is essential for providing top-tier patient care and ensuring compliance with state and national regulations. However, finding a continuing education provider that is both flexible and high-quality can be a challenge—especially for busy EMS professionals juggling work and [...]
DistanceCME: Your Trusted Source for EMR, EMT, AEMT, and Paramedic Refreshers Staying current with your EMS certification is essential for providing top-tier patient care and ensuring compliance with state and national regulations. However, finding a continuing education provider that is both flexible and high-quality can be a challenge—especially for busy EMS professionals juggling work and [...]
Why Choose DistanceCME for Refresher Courses? As an EMS professional, staying up-to-date with the latest techniques and continuing education requirements is vital to providing the best possible care. Whether you are working towards recertification or seeking to enhance your skills, choosing the right provider for your refresher courses is key. At DistanceCME, we pride ourselves [...]
What Is the EMS Compact? A Pathway to Stronger Emergency Medical Services Nationwide Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are crucial to the health and safety of communities everywhere, but the systems that provide them are often limited by geography and state borders. That’s where the EMS Compact comes in — a groundbreaking agreement designed to create more [...]
The role and consequences of mechanical ventilation during transport is something that must be both understood and respected. While it can free up much needed manpower and allow for more consistent delivery of oxygen and removal of carbon dioxide, it can also have negative effects if applied incorrectly. Broadly speaking, mechanical ventilation can be utilized [...]
As time passes some things get worse and some things get better. With the transition from active-duty military service to a civilian career many times service members are starting over, which as many know is a daunting task. I got off active duty in 2014 and at that time I saw no clear path to utilizing [...]
If I asked you what phrase immediately comes to mine when you think of EMT school, paramedic school, working at your job, trainings, etc.? Is that phrase “BSI, scene safe”? In my nearly 20-year career working as a medic I have probably heard that phrase thousands of times. Between taking classes, teaching classes, training at new [...]
Uncontrolled bleeding causes death. More than 1 million people die every year because they bleed out. That means bleeding control sometimes needs to be quick, aggressive, and effective. When it comes to life threatening bleeding, there are a lot of ways to attempt to control it: direct pressure, elevation, restrict movement, tourniquets, pressure dressings, wound [...]
If you have ever called 911, the dispatcher, operator, or call taker likely asked you for the phone number you were calling from as well as the address of your emergency. With today’s technology, it is very possible the 911 center already had that information pop up on their screen as soon as you called, so [...]
Many traumatic injuries result in outwardly gruesome and visually grotesque injuries. Abdominal trauma however, often can go unnoticed and can be a silent killer if the injuries go unrecognized or untreated. While skeletal injuries often present with obvious deformity and are easily recognized, abdominal injuries are much more difficult to identify. In regards to traumatic injuries [...]
