EMS-EMT7931 - Critical Care Transport
Course Description
The Critical Care Emergency Medical Transport Program is designed to prepare paramedics and nurses to function as members of a critical care transport team. Critical patients that must be transported between facilities require a different level of care from hospital or emergency field patients. Participants will gain an understanding of the special needs of critical patients during transport, become familiar with the purpose and mechanisms of hospital procedures and equipment, and develop the skills to maintain the stability of hospital equipment and procedures during transport.Course Outline
This program will prepare students to provide intensive care unit-level care during transport to a wide variety of critically ill patients. It will bring together paramedics and other health care professionals to bridge prehospital and hospital care.
The program will provide an understanding of the highest level of care provided to critical patients during transport. A broad base of emergency and critical care physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and treatment modalities comprises the most substantial portion of the program. Specific skills, including advanced airway management; use of mechanical ventilators; invasive and noninvasive hemodynamic and pressure monitoring; cardiac assist devices; administration of blood and blood products; interpretation of laboratory and diagnostic studies; initiation and titration of multiple intravenous infusions; and performance of invasive procedures, such as chest tube and central line insertion, are an integral part of the curriculum.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support for the Experience Provider (ACLS-EP)
- International Trauma Life Support (ITLS)
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)