The AMLS course is the first EMS education program that fully addresses how to best assess and manage the most common medical crises in patients, offering a “think outside the box” methodology. AMLS is the most comprehensive EMS continuing education course addressing the assessment and management of patients. It is for all levels of practitioners with a strong commitment to patient care, including first responders, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse anesthetists and physicians. Students completing this course may be eligible to receive 16 CEUs through CECBEMS.

All Hazards Disaster Response (AHDR) teaches EMS practitioners how to respond to the many types of disaster scenarios they may encounter, including natural disasters and infrastructure failings, fires and radiological events, pandemics, active shooter incidents, and other mass casualty events. AHDR educates participants on how to analyze potential threats in their area, assess available resources, and create a medical response plan that saves lives.

Topics covered

• Communicating effectively during disasters
• Mutual aid and interoperability
• Managing resources such as supplies, medications and equipment
• Triage and transportation strategies and challenges
• Patient tracking and evacuation

At the start of the course, participants conduct a “hazards vulnerability analysis” to assess natural and man-made features of their environment that pose risk, along with assessing the needs of vulnerable populations, such as assisted-living residents or hospital patients that need special consideration. Content is presented in the context of realistic scenarios, culminating with a large-scale mass casualty activity.

EMS Safety teaches students how to protect themselves and their patients while on the job. It promotes a culture of safety and helps reduce the number of on-the-job fatalities and injuries. EMS Safety is the only national, comprehensive safety course for EMS practitioners. Its interactive format features real-life case studies and compelling discussions on current safety issues, and provides participants with a forum to share their own experiences. Critical thinking stations help build participants’ risk assessment and decision-making skills. EMS Safety is appropriate for all levels of EMS practitioners, other medical professionals providing prehospital patient care, and EMS supervisors and administrators.

Participants are taught:

• To identify and remove the hazards that can appear during daily tasks, from offensive drivers to violent encounters to chronic stress
• Practical strategies that they can apply in the field, from situational awareness to defensive driving to verbal deflection
• How to strengthen their resiliency skills in order to combat both chronic and critical incident stress

Topics covered

• Crew resource management in EMS
• Situational awareness and defensive driving for safe emergency vehicle operations
• Multi-agency pre-planning, vehicle and practitioner visibility techniques, and defensive staging practices at roadside incidents
• Lift assist teams, lifting and moving equipment, and behavioral controls to protect both EMS practitioners and patients from injury
• Situational awareness to continually assess for the potential of violence on the scene and verbal and physical techniques to de-escalate potential threats
• Infection and contagion control to protect both EMS practitioners and patients from emerging threats
• Resiliency skills to help EMS practitioners cope with daily and critical incident stress
• Personal readiness for the daily challenges and hazards of working in the field through optimal personal health

EMS Vehicle Operator Safety (EVOS) addresses the knowledge gap that leads to injuries and deaths, and focuses on the specific behaviors that need to be changed to create a culture of safe driving. Drawing on the most current research about the behaviors and other hazards that lead to crashes, EVOS features case studies and analyses of both common and catastrophic collisions. EVOS challenges EMS practitioners to reconsider their preconceptions about safe vehicle operations. Instructors can easily incorporate local laws, rules and policies into the curriculum. EVOS is appropriate for EMS practitioners at all levels.

Topics covered

• Making driving safety a priority
• Legal aspects of EMS vehicle operation
• Maneuvering an EMS vehicle
• Vehicle inspection and maintenance
• Mental, emotional and physical preparedness
• Emergency response
• Crash prevention
• Driving skills
• Technological aids
• Simulation training

The GEMS course is sponsored by the American Geriatrics Society and the National Council of State Emergency Medical Services Training Coordinators and is designed to meet the minimum standards related to the geriatric portion of the US Department of Transportation National Standard Curriculum for EMT-Basic, EMT-Intermediate, and Paramedic providers.

PHTLS courses improve the quality of trauma care in your area and decrease mortality. The program is based on a pre-hospital trauma care philosophy, stressing the treatment of the multi-system trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. PHTLS promotes critical thinking as the foundation for providing quality care. It is based on the belief that, given a good fund of knowledge and key principles, EMS providers are capable of making reasoned decisions regarding patient care. Students completing this course will be eligible to receive 16 CEUs through CECBEMS.

The TCCC course is the military counterpart to the PHTLS course. It is designed for military medics, corpsmen, and pararescuemen who are preparing to deploy in support of combat operations. Casualty care on the battlefield must be the best possible combination of good medicine and good small-unit tactics. Students completing this course will be eligible to receive 16 CEUs through CECBEMS. This course is available for a cost of $360.