EMS Professional Development

The Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) hosted Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support (PFCCS) course combines expert-developed lectures with interactive skill stations to train non-intensivists and other healthcare professionals to recognize critical illness and initiate care for the critically ill pediatric patient. The course addresses fundamental management principles for the first 24 hours of post-resuscitation management of the critically ill pediatric patient until transfer or appropriate critical care consultation can be arranged and is recommended for any healthcare professional who may encounter a critically ill or injured pediatric patient. Lectures: • Acute Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation • Cardiovascular Evaluation and Pediatric Shock • Fluids, Electrolytes, and Metabolic Disorders • Pediatric Neurologic Emergencies • Postoperative Management • Sedation, Analgesia, and Neuromuscular Blockade Skills Stations: • Cardiopulmonary Dysfunction • Mechanical Ventilation • Pediatric Transport • Sedation • Radiology/Invasive Devices • Advanced Integration Scenarios

WAIT LIST ONLY The Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) hosted Fundamental Critical Care Support: Obstetrics (FCCS: OB) course combines expert-developed presentations with interactive skill stations to build healthcare professionals' confidence in providing maternal/fetal critical care to improve patient outcomes. Lectures: • Physiologic Changes During Pregnancy • Airway Management in the Pregnant Patient • Hemodynamic Monitoring • Preeclampsia/Eclampsia • Sepsis in Pregnancy • Thromboembolic Disease and Pregnancy • Obstetric Hemorrhage • Maternal Mortality and Cardiac Arrest in Pregnancy • Fetal Assessment • Nonobstetric Surgical Emergencies • Pregnancy-Related Acute Kidney Injury • Management of Delivery and Newborn • Transport of the Critically Ill Pregnant Patient • Mechanical Ventilation in Pregnancy • Trauma in Pregnancy • Cardiac Conditions in Pregnancy • Neurocritical Care in Pregnancy Skills Stations: • Postpartum Hemorrhage • Mechanical Ventilation in Pregnancy • Delivery and Neonatal Resuscitation • Trauma in Pregnancy • Cardiopulmonary Arrest in Pregnancy • Management of Preeclampsia/Eclampsia

This review course will encompass two days of test taking strategy, and periodic knowledge assessment sessions. This course has been reviewed and approved as an IBSC review course for initial FP-C & CCP-C certification, and continuing education via in person, and online delivery methodology. This course has been designed to meet or exceed the recommendations for material review by the certifying bodies that confer the FP-C, CCP-C, and CFRN® advanced certifications. Course attendance prepares you to understand your knowledge strengths and weaknesses to guide final preparations for certification exam success and/or satisfy advanced recertification and continuing education requirements. This activity was approved by the Emergency Nurses Association. The Emergency Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC). All Paramedic CE hours are awarded through the Commission on Accreditation for Pre-Hospital Continuing Education (CAPCE).

Accepting Waitlist Applications Only. This review course will encompass two days of test taking strategy, and periodic knowledge assessment sessions. This course has been reviewed and approved as an IBSC review course for initial FP-C & CCP-C certification, and continuing education via in person, and online delivery methodology. This course has been designed to meet or exceed the recommendations for material review by the certifying bodies that confer the FP-C, CCP-C, and CFRN® advanced certifications. Course attendance prepares you to understand your knowledge strengths and weaknesses to guide final preparations for certification exam success and/or satisfy advanced recertification and continuing education requirements. This activity was approved by the Emergency Nurses Association. The Emergency Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC). All Paramedic CE hours are awarded through the Commission on Accreditation for Pre-Hospital Continuing Education (CAPCE).