Advanced Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support Certification Course

The Advanced Pre-Hospital Life Support Course follows the guidelines for trauma care published and endorsed by the American College of Emergency Physicians; modeled on the ATLS course for physicians, this program extends the same principles of emergency medicine to other health professionals.

This is a continuing education course based on a foundation of expert presentations and hands-on practice stations. Target groups include: Outport nurses, Nurse Practitioners, EMTs and Military Medical Personnel.

Course Overview Lectures, labs and clinical demonstrations cover: Physical Assessment of the Trauma Patient, Airway Management, Ventilation and Oxygen Therapy, Chest & Abdominal Trauma, Shock, Fluid resuscitation, Intravenous and Intraosseous Access, Spinal Trauma, Helmet Removal, Extremity Immobilization, Environmental (hypothermia/burns), Trauma in Pregnancy, Trauma Arrest, Mega-Code scenarios utilizing "standardized" simulated patients.

Instructional Time: 20 to 24 hours

Anaphylaxis Management Workshop

Targeted at Clinical Nurses and Intermediate Paramedics, this 8-hour workshop teaches the knowledge and skills necessary to intervene in emergencies involving serious allergic reactions or anaphylaxis.

Topics covered include: Brief Overview of Clinical Immunology, Anaphylaxis, Airway Management & Ventilation (oxygen therapy, adjunct airway devices, BVM ventilation), Shock and Fluid Therapy, Emergency Medications, Case Studies and practice "mega-code" scenarios.

Advanced Cardiac Life Support ACLS Provider Certification

The ACLS Provider Course is designed to develop a system of priorities and rationales for treatment of cardiac emergencies in accordance with the Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation standards. The ACLS Program is useful to all critical care practitioners - physicians, paramedics, and nurses responsible for managing cardiac emergencies.

Delivered in a "case-based" format, the course covers critical areas of emergency cardiac care such as defibrillation, managing refractory VF, acute MI, pulmonary edema and shock, hemodynamically unstable bradydysrhythmias and synchronized cardioversion.

Instructional Time: 20 to 24 hours

12-Lead EKG Interpretation

While EKG monitoring in 3 leads is generally sufficient for identification and treatment of immediately life-threatening dysrhythmias, it provides only limited information when compared to a 12-lead. In fact, the 12-lead EKG often plays a pivotal role in the management of the cardiac patient, particularly with respect to identifying ischemia, injury, and infarction.

This course will teach Paramedics and Emergency Nurses how to understand the information that can be gleaned from a 12-lead EKG, signs of ischemia, infarction and injury, assist in developing and organized approach to a 12-lead interpretation, practice correct lead placement and learn how to obtain a tracing from any monitor, identify and differentiate BBB, LVH and early repolarization syndromes, fast track patients that may be candidates for thrombolytic therapy, and relate the information obtained from the 12-lead to the clinical management of the patient.

Instructional Time: 8 to 16 hours