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Critical Care 2023-10 is a Course

Critical Care 2023-10

Oct 9, 2023 - Dec 11, 2023
90 credits

Spots remaining: 8

$1,000 Enroll

Full course description

 
Course Overview:
This course will allow the student to be eligible to take the specialty certification exam for Critical Care Paramedic (CCP-C) and Certified Flight Paramedic (FP-C).  The CCP course is designed to prepare paramedics to provide advanced critical care during ground and air transport of critically ill or injured patients.  This course combines online and in-seat learning to enhance critical care thinking and advanced skills.

 
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
  • recognize different flight physiologies
  • understand barophysiology and critical patient transfer considerations
  • recognize and perform critical care patient packaging
  • recognize critical airway and ventilation management issues including: surgical airways,  ventilators, CPAP, and BiPAP
  • understand thoracotomy
  • perform and maintain chest tubes in critical care
  • maintain central venous lines
  • expand pharmacologic knowledge and it's role in critical care
  • interpret laboratory data
  • recognize advanced 12 Lead ECG with correct interpretation and treatment
  • understand and perform hemodynamic monitoring in the critical care patient 

 
Instructor(s):
Beth Burkhart

 
Length:
10 weeks

 
Department: 
EMS Education

 
Credit:
90 CEU

 
Audience:
EMS Professionals

 
Registration and enrollment support:
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Accommodations
University of Missouri Extension complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. If you have a disability and need accommodations in connection with participation in an educational program or you need materials in an alternate format, please notify your instructor as soon as possible so that necessary arrangements can be made.

 
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