Overview
What's Included
The Paramedic refresher program is 30 hours of virtual instructor-led courses designed to meet the NCCP requirements for the national component of Paramedic refresher training. The program is CAPCE accredited as F5 hours and is accepted by the NREMT and most states.
To meet the NCCP requirements for Paramedic refreshers, the courses cover:
- Airway/Respiratory/Ventilation – 3.5 hours
- Provide ventilatory support for a patient in respiratory distress/failure
- Provide oxygenation to patients in respiratory distress
- Discuss the use of capnography for patients in distress
- Assess and provide care to patients with suspected respiratory emergencies
- Medical Emergencies – 8.5 hours
- Assess a patient with possible overdose and other toxicological emergencies
- Assess and provide care to a near-drowning patient
- Assess and provide care to a patient with an altered mental status
- Assess and provide care to a patient experiencing a neurological emergency/seizure
- Assess and provide care to a patient exposed to heat or cold/experiencing an environmental emergency
- Assess and provide care to a patient experiencing a behavioral/psychiatric emergency
- Assess and provide care to a patient with suspected communicable diseases
- Assess and provide care to patients with suspected endocrine emergencies/diabetes
- Assess and provide care to patients with suspected immunological emergencies/anaphylaxis/allergic reactions
- Assess and provide care to patients with ob/gyn emergencies
- Assess and provide care to patients with infectious diseases
- Discuss the care of special healthcare needs patients
- Discuss Medication Delivery methods
- Discuss pain management modalities
- Trauma – 3 hours
- Perform a rapid trauma assessment
- Assess a patient with a head injury
- Assess and provide care to a patient with suspected spinal injury
- Provide care to a patient with a chest injury
- Provide care to a patient with an open abdominal injury
- Provide care to a patient with shock/ hypoperfusion
- Assess and provide care to a patient with a burn injury
- Provide care to a patient with a painful swollen deformed extremity
- Cardiology – 8.5 hours
- Assess and provide care to a patient with suspected CVA/TIA/Stroke Mimics
- Assess and provide care to a patient with CHF
- Provide care patients in cardiac arrest (adult and pediatric)
- Provide post-resuscitation care
- Discuss assessment and provide care to a patient with a Ventricular Assist Device
- Operational Tasks – 6.5 hours
- Discuss ambulance safety
- Discuss field triage – disasters/MCIs
- Discuss EMS Provider hygiene/Safety/Vaccinations
- EMS Culture of Safety
- Crew Resource Management
- Discuss at-risk populations
- Discuss EMS Research and Evidence-Based Guidelines
- Discuss Pediatric Transport
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