Course curriculum
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Welcome!
- About The Course
- Short Lesson Notifications!
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This Week
- Blood transfusions in Pediatrics?
- Women Working in EMS (Part 1 Preview) | with Ginger Locke
- Where does a AAA actually occur?
- Bilateral BPs in AAA?
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Last Week
- The view of the carina
- Should we intubate during cardiac arrest?
- Becoming a Paramedic (Part 2) | Preview
- Why we see changes in blood pressure when AAA occur
- What inside the lung really looks like
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Short Airway Lessons
- Lidocaine or Amiodarone? | Ask the Medical Director (Part 23)
- What’s better for intubation?
- Lots of blankets??
- Direct or Video Laryngoscope? Ask the Medical Director (Part 23)
- It's Not Just COPD!
- Why CO2 is so Important
- How is CO2 Controlled?
- Oxygen Saturation in ROSC | Ask the Medical Director (Part 15)
- Would This Patient Benifit from CPAP?
- Ruptured Esophageal Varices (Dean Stockley Blog, August 22nd, 2023)
- How to Fix Ventilation Problems with MRSOPA
- Airway Burn Management (Preview)
- How CPAP Works to improve Oxygenation
- How to Deliver Precise Volumes with a BVM
- Testing Different Sizes of BVMs
- How Bronchoconstriction Impacts Ventilation
- SGA's and ET Tubes? | Ask the Medical Director Part 13
- CPAP vs BiPAP
- Don't Forget To Let Them Exhale!
- Bundle Branch Blocks
- What Happens to the Nerves in MS?
- Quickly Identifying Causes of Respiratory Distress
- Hyperventilation During Herniation?
- Hyperventilation During Herniation? | Answer
- Quick Mask Seal Tip
- How Does CO2 Impact pH?
- Tension Pneumothorax | Medical Pictionary 3 Answer
- A patient with a history of hypertension
- Answer: Pre-eclampsia
- Respiratory Compensation in Metabolic Acidosis
- Resuscitation pior to Intubation
- Helping Patients Tolerate CPAP
- Decompressing a Tension Pneumothorax
- Where Does CO2 Come From?
- Breath Stacking
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Podcast Episode Previews
- CISM | with Adam Stanchak (Podcast Preview)
- Law and order in EMS with David Givot (Preview)
- Mental Resiliency | with James Boomhower (Preview)
- Pediatric Patients Part 1 | with Meg Brazzel (Preview)
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Short Pediatric and Neonate Lessons
- IV Locations for Infants
- Checking the heart rate on an infant
- How Do You Know if You Need to Resuscitate an Infant?
- PEEP in Neonatal Resuscitation
- Infant CPR
- Pediatric Airway positioning
- Pediatric Ventilation Tips
- Pediatrics in Shock
- Pediatric Cardiac Arrest | Ask the Medical Director (Part 8)
- Calculating Pediatric Blood Pressures
- Sizing Pediatric BP Cuffs
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Short Environmental Emergency Lessons
- Cold Water Submersion for Hypothermic Patients? | Ask the Medical Director (Part 21)
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8
Short Obstetrics Lessons
- Hypotension in 3rd-Trimester Pregnancy?
- OBGYN Emergency
- Ectopic Pregnancy
- Causes of antepartum hemorrhage in pregnancy
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9
Short Neurological Emergency Lessons
- AEIOUTIPS Neurological Assessment
- Petite Mal Seizures
- What Is Neurogenic Shock?
- FAST Stroke Assessment
- Understanding Coup and Contrecoup
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10
Short Cardiology Lessons
- Hypotension in Atrial Fibrillation
- How Contractility Works
- V1, V2 Depression, Think Posterior MI
- What Do You Think of This ECG?
- Low ETCO2 in Pulmonary Embolism
- Why We See Shark Fin ETCO2 Waveforms
- 12 Leads 101
- New Way to defibrilate? | Ask the Medical Director (Part 20)
- Fluids in Cardiac Arrest
- PEEP Valves in Cardiac Arrest
- Bicarbonate in Cardiac Arrest?
- Defibrillating a PEA Arrest?
- Should He Have Stopped CPR?
- Why Hyperventilation is so Dangerous During Cardiac Arrest
- Beck's Triad in Cardiac Tamponade
- Nitroglycerine and Its Benefit in Myocardial Infarction
- Why ET Tube Size Matters
- Cardiac Action Potential
- V:Q Mismatch
- Using Calcium in Cardiac Arrest? | Ask the Medical Director (Part 7)
- Cardiac Arrest and ETCO2
- Answer- Cardiac Arrest & ETCO2
- Using Epinephrine Through IO or IV in Cardiac Arrest? | Ask the Medical Director Part 6
- Shark Fin or Tombstone ECG? | Ask the Medical Director (Part 5)
- Which Areas of the Heart are Affected? | Exam Question
- Which Areas of the Heart are Affected? | Exam Question Answer
- 3rd Degree Block Patient Breakdown
- Calcium and Hyperkalemia? | Ask the Medical Director (Part 3)
- Identifying the cause of PEA
- Starlings Law
- ETCO2 and Fluids?
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Short Shock and Sepsis Lessons
- Quick Vagal Manuever Tip
- Managing Wet and Cold Cardiogenic Shock
- How Cardiac Tamponade Causes Shock
- How Insulin Works!
- Beck's Triad in Cardiac Tamponade
- How Blood Vessels Control Fluid Movement
- Fluid Shift in Sepsis
- What is Shock?
- What Is Neurogenic Shock?
- Cardiogenic Shock
- Meeting our time goals in STEMI activation, does it really matter? | Ask the Medical Director
- Pathophysiology of Cardiogenic Shock
- Management of Cardiogenic Shock
- Are We Treating Status Epilepticus Correctly? | Ask the Medical Director (Part 18)
- Your Seizure Patientis Exausted
- Treatment Strategy in Septic Shock
- Hemorrhagic Shock Patient with Low ETCO2 - Question
- Hemorrhagic Shock Patient with Low ETCO2 - Answer
- Norepinephrine in Sepsis
- Fluid Shift in Sepsis
- Treating Hypoxic Failure
- Isotonic Fluids in Hemorrhagic Shock | Ask the Medical Director (Part 9)
- Vasopressor in Sepsis (Question)
- Norepinephrine in Sepsis (Answer)
- Pathophysiology of Obstructive Shock
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Short Anatomy Lessons
- Alpha and Beta Receptors
- DKA
- DKA and Water
- Treating Nausea with Alcohol Swabs
- Kidney Anatomy
- Transient Ischemic Attacks
- Why TIAs are still Dangerous
- TBI Case (Dean Stockley Blog, August 29th, 2023)
- Does This Patient Require Blood?
- Resuscitation with Blood and Components
- Why Patients Get Peripheral Edema
- Alpha 1, Beta 1 and Beta 2
- Understanding Anatomy and Physyiology
- Why Asthmatics Have Trouble Breathing
- Bilateral Blood Pressures in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm?
- How Nerve Signals Travel
- Patient Pupil Reactions
- Layers of Meninges | Exam Question
- Layers of Meninges | Exam Question Answer
- How Much blood Can You Lose?
- Why is it MAP - ICP = CPP?
- The Creation of Red Blood Cells
- How Food Becomes Useable Glucose
- What Happens to The Nucleus in Red Blood Cells?
- The Lungs and Diaphragm
- Polyuria
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Short Trauma Lessons
- The Trauma Line
- Tourniquet Time
- No Blood? What Should You Do?
- Vasopressors in Hemorrhagic Shock?
- Avoid Hypotension in Traumatic Brain Injury
- Traction Splints For Femur Fractures
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Short EMS Operations Lessons
- Is This Device Useful?
- Direct or Video Laryngoscopy? What’s better? | Ask the Medical Director (Part 17)
- Paramedics Respond to a Mental Health Call | Staged Scenario
- Making the Most out of Medical Scenarios
- Working on Mindset
- Removing Air Pocket from a Syringe
- Is There an Association Between Time and Mortality in the Pre-hospital Setting? | Ask the Medical Director Part 4
- My Advice on Becoming a Flight Paramedic
- Why Did I Become a Paramedic?
- Passing Exams
- When Are You Ready To Advance?
- Patient Positions
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Short Pharmacology Lessons
- TXA in Upper GI Bleeds? | Ask the Medical Director (Part 14)
- Using TXA with TBI Patients? | Ask the Medical Director
- How Narcan Works
- Medication is the Key
- Using Saline to Avoid Post-Intubation Hypotension | Ask the Medical Director
- How Paralytics Work
- Amiodarone VS Lidocaine | Ask the Medical Director (Part 19)
- How Insulin Works
- What is Absolute and Relative Refractory Period?
- The Diffirence Between Vasoppressors Epinephrine and Norepinephrine
- How Antibiotics Work in the Body
- How Magnesium Sulfate Works
- Medication Affinity
- Why Medications Don't Work Right Away
- Med Math Simplified
- Narcan or Ventilations? | Case Study Breakdown (April 7th, 2023)
- Medication Half-life and Why It Matters
- Antihypertensives
- Amiodarone
- Albuterol vs ATROVENT
- Ketamine in Refractory Seizures
- How Benzodiazepines Actually Work
- Calcium Channel Blockers
- How Chloride Can Cause Acidosis
- How Magnesium Sulfate Works
- Nitroglycerine and It’s Benefit in Myocardial Infarction
- Systemic Vascular Resistance