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    • EMS Credit Hours
8:00 AM
  1. 240 mins
    This class will provide the basic principles of the rescue task force (RTF) and tactical emergency casualty care to better respond to high-threat active assailant incidents. Current evolution of these ...
  2. 240 mins
    It is a repetitious news headline: 'Active Shooter Reported! Multiple Deaths Confirmed, Several More Injured.' Yet, emergency services organizations are still attempting to define their specific role ...
  3. 240 mins
    Instructors present challenging, difficult extrication scenarios requiring advanced skills to stabilize the vehicles, gain entry, and remove patients entrapped and entangled in the wreckage. There wil ...
  4. 240 mins
    This workshop covers performance training based on the book Developing Firefighter Resiliency by Fire Engineering, with video and photos of immersion training classes. Some of the techniques include b ...
  5. 240 mins
    Students will have the unique opportunity to receive hands-on training on the latest vehicles on the market today. The class will focus on electric hybrid vehicle response as well as new emerging tech ...
  6. 540 mins
    This class begins with a lecture about safety in and around elevator equipment and an introduction on how to safely handle an elevator emergency. Participants will then be rotated through five skills ...
  7. 540 mins
    The fireground is the great unknown. We never know what we truly have until we turn the corner and lay eyes on it. Then, we're forced to make split-second decisions based on the information in front o ...
  8. 240 mins
    The first station is the bus overrun, where students will be lifting a 20,000-lb. live load with lifting struts. This is a difficult lift, and most students will not have the opportunity to train on s ...
  9. 540 mins
    Five stations will incorporate live fire, interior fire attacks, basic search and rescue, victim removal and initial patient assessment, hose selection/placement/management, and buddy rescue technique ...
  10. 240 mins
    Man vs. machinery incidents occur across the country. They may involve a person stuck in some sort of industrial machinery or be as routine as a ring stuck on a victim's finger. Are you prepared to ha ...
  11. 240 mins
    This class provides rescuers with the skills for vehicles of today and the future. Instruction follows leading edge extrication techniques and introduces real-life rescue experience. From basic princi ...
  12. 240 mins
    Each year, more than 2,000 civilians are killed in structure fires. When we make life safety our number one priority, then all of our actions should be about getting inside and finding victims. We giv ...
  13. 540 mins
    This class will provide students with the necessary skills to effectively operate as a member of a responder intervention team. It will adapt a formal, nationally recognized training curriculum into a ...
  14. 240 mins
    Explosives identification and incident response by first responders is paramount in today's world. First responders have been and will continue to be called on to mitigate fires and to treat the injur ...
  15. 540 mins
    This is a rope rescue course providing technical rescue personnel hands-on experience operating on a communications tower structure. Students will learn proper techniques for climbing tower structures ...
  16. 240 mins
    Learn the techniques and the thought processes necessary for successfully conducting vent-enter-isolate-search. Live fire and a series of visual and audible stressors that are part of this class will ...
1:00 PM
  1. 240 mins
    This class will provide the basic principles of the rescue task force (RTF) and tactical emergency casualty care to better respond to high-threat active assailant incidents. Current evolution of these ...
  2. 240 mins
    Instructors present challenging, difficult extrication scenarios requiring advanced skills to stabilize the vehicles, gain entry, and remove patients entrapped and entangled in the wreckage. There wil ...
  3. 240 mins
    Students will have the unique opportunity to receive hands-on training on the latest vehicles on the market today. The class will focus on electric hybrid vehicle response as well as new emerging tech ...
  4. 240 mins
    The first station is the bus overrun, where students will be lifting a 20,000-lb. live load with lifting struts. This is a difficult lift, and most students will not have the opportunity to train on s ...
  5. 240 mins
    Man vs. machinery incidents occur across the country. They may involve a person stuck in some sort of industrial machinery or be as routine as a ring stuck on a victim's finger. Are you prepared to ha ...
  6. 240 mins
    This class provides rescuers with the skills for vehicles of today and the future. Instruction follows leading edge extrication techniques and introduces real-life rescue experience. From basic princi ...
  7. 240 mins
    Each year, more than 2,000 civilians are killed in structure fires. When we make life safety our number one priority, then all of our actions should be about getting inside and finding victims. We giv ...
  8. 240 mins
    Learn the techniques and the thought processes necessary for successfully conducting vent-enter-isolate-search. Live fire and a series of visual and audible stressors that are part of this class will ...
1:30 PM
  1. 240 mins
    This workshop teaches how to use skills at an active shooter hostile event to avoid/run or defend/hide or as a last resort defend/fight the aggressor, identify arterial bleeding, apply a commercial to ...
  2. 240 mins
    New vehicle technology presents ever-changing challenges for rescuers. Students will gain an understanding of how vehicles have changed and will continue to change, along with the extrication and vehi ...
  3. 240 mins
    Intubation, by paramedics, in the prehospital environment continues to be a hot topic of discussion. An area of especially intense debate is drug-assisted intubation (DAI). Patients requiring DAI ofte ...
8:00 AM
  1. 240 mins
    This class will provide the basic principles of the rescue task force (RTF) and tactical emergency casualty care to better respond to high-threat active assailant incidents. Current evolution of these ...
  2. 240 mins
    Instructors present challenging, difficult extrication scenarios requiring advanced skills to stabilize the vehicles, gain entry, and remove patients entrapped and entangled in the wreckage. There wil ...
  3. 240 mins
    Saving civilian and firefighter lives on the fireground starts with the company drill. We prepare to save lives one drill at a time. Company officers always ask for new ideas and methods to keep their ...
  4. 240 mins
    Students will have the unique opportunity to receive hands-on training on the latest vehicles on the market today. The class will focus on electric hybrid vehicle response as well as new emerging tech ...
  5. 540 mins
    This class begins with a lecture about safety in and around elevator equipment and an introduction on how to safely handle an elevator emergency. Participants will then be rotated through five skills ...
  6. 540 mins
    The fireground is the great unknown. We never know what we truly have until we turn the corner and lay eyes on it. Then, we're forced to make split-second decisions based on the information in front o ...
  7. 240 mins
    This highly interactive workshop will introduce the four pillars: Physical Fitness, Rest & Recovery, Hydration, and Nutrition. Pillar 1 teaches attendees to focus on exercises and movements that are f ...

    Sponsored by:

    firstnet-att

  8. 240 mins
    The first station is the bus overrun, where students will be lifting a 20,000-lb. live load with lifting struts. This is a difficult lift, and most students will not have the opportunity to train on s ...
  9. 240 mins
    The target audience for this program is EMS providers of all types/levels/certifications as well as any other clinical personnel who may be exposed to patients with high-consequence communicable disea ...
  10. 540 mins
    Five stations will incorporate live fire, interior fire attacks, basic search and rescue, victim removal and initial patient assessment, hose selection/placement/management, and buddy rescue technique ...
  11. 240 mins
    Man vs. machinery incidents occur across the country. They may involve a person stuck in some sort of industrial machinery or be as routine as a ring stuck on a victim's finger. Are you prepared to ha ...
  12. 240 mins
    This class provides rescuers with the skills for vehicles of today and the future. Instruction follows leading edge extrication techniques and introduces real-life rescue experience. From basic princi ...
  13. 240 mins
    Each year, more than 2,000 civilians are killed in structure fires. When we make life safety our number one priority, then all of our actions should be about getting inside and finding victims. We giv ...
  14. 540 mins
    This class will provide students with the necessary skills to effectively operate as a member of a responder intervention team. It will adapt a formal, nationally recognized training curriculum into a ...
  15. 540 mins
    This is a rope rescue course providing technical rescue personnel hands-on experience operating on a communications tower structure. Students will learn proper techniques for climbing tower structures ...
  16. 240 mins
    Learn the techniques and the thought processes necessary for successfully conducting vent-enter-isolate-search. Live fire and a series of visual and audible stressors that are part of this class will ...
1:00 PM
  1. 240 mins
    This class will provide the basic principles of the rescue task force (RTF) and tactical emergency casualty care to better respond to high-threat active assailant incidents. Current evolution of these ...
  2. 240 mins
    Instructors present challenging, difficult extrication scenarios requiring advanced skills to stabilize the vehicles, gain entry, and remove patients entrapped and entangled in the wreckage. There wil ...
  3. 240 mins
    Students will have the unique opportunity to receive hands-on training on the latest vehicles on the market today. The class will focus on electric hybrid vehicle response as well as new emerging tech ...
  4. 240 mins
    The first station is the bus overrun, where students will be lifting a 20,000-lb. live load with lifting struts. This is a difficult lift, and most students will not have the opportunity to train on s ...
  5. 240 mins
    Man vs. machinery incidents occur across the country. They may involve a person stuck in some sort of industrial machinery or be as routine as a ring stuck on a victim's finger. Are you prepared to ha ...
  6. 240 mins
    This class provides rescuers with the skills for vehicles of today and the future. Instruction follows leading edge extrication techniques and introduces real-life rescue experience. From basic princi ...
  7. 240 mins
    Each year, more than 2,000 civilians are killed in structure fires. When we make life safety our number one priority, then all of our actions should be about getting inside and finding victims. We giv ...
  8. 240 mins
    Learn the techniques and the thought processes necessary for successfully conducting vent-enter-isolate-search. Live fire and a series of visual and audible stressors that are part of this class will ...
1:30 PM
  1. 240 mins
    To ensure that EMS managers are aware of the the laws, regulations, and compliance issues associated with a comprehensive infection control program. this session will demonstrate the cost effectivenes ...
  2. 240 mins
    Documentation is the cornerstone of an affirmative defense indicating your personnel did the right thing at a fire or EMS response. Why document? Your department and probably the state or local EMS/He ...
  3. 240 mins
    Every day, first responders are vigilant and almost mechanical in their actions when responding and attending to emergency situations. Commonly overlooked are their mental processes of these events. F ...

    Sponsored by:

    firstnet-att

10:30 AM
  1. 105 mins
    Every day in America, someone is rescued from the horrible fate of perishing in a fire. This class will enhance your skills by focusing on aggressive tactics and training tips while covering command s ...

    Sponsored by:

    aexion

  2. 105 mins
    Unfortunately, many firefighters in this country are still not being properly protected on the fireground by a well-trained and well-equipped rapid intervention team (RIT). Excues range from 'We don't ...
  3. 105 mins
    Man vs. machinery incidents occur across the country. They may involve a person stuck in some sort of industrial machinery or be as routine as a ring stuck on a victim's finger. Are you prepared to ha ...
  4. 105 mins
    This session will help EMS officers learn how to integrate with the fire side of their agency. The fire department is steeped in culture, and years of tradition have built a culture that focuses on fi ...
  5. 105 mins
    This class will discuss the many facets of RIT, from the command aspect down to the rescue itself. It will define what a RIT is and discuss the difference between a proactive and reactive RIT, then di ...
  6. 105 mins
    Over the past 20 years, the public safety approach to high-threat mass casualty incidents such as an active shooter event has undergone significant changes. The initial change was with law enforcement ...
1:30 PM
  1. 105 mins
    Through an interactive presentation and discussions, students will learn about the scope of the problem of cancer in the fire service. Cancer exposure occurs on the fireground, in the fire stations, a ...

    Sponsored by:

    HCT

  2. 105 mins
    Sports participation by youth continues to increase, and the ability to recognize the impact of safety equipment is important in providing quality care. The purpose of this course is to review sports ...
  3. 105 mins
    This class reviews the top administrative policies and operational practices every fire department (U.S. and Canada) must have to prevent liability, firefighter injuries, and public embarrassment and ...
  4. 105 mins
    Approximately 95% of civilian fire deaths occur in the residential setting. This should be our bread and butter. Yet, many departments are plagued with a passive search culture due to poor SOGs, overc ...
  5. 105 mins
    This class addresses our understanding of trauma, post-traumatic stress, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In the past few years, PTSD has become a common phrase in emergency services, yet ou ...
  6. 105 mins
    Dive deep into the emotional wellness issues firefighters face and identify simple, practical self-care practices that firefighters can use to build emotional wellness and resiliency amidst stressful ...
  7. 105 mins
    This class focuses on the disparity between firefighter and civilian fatalities at the same structural fires. It quantifies basic risk vs. reward and goes beyond the tendency to justify risk whenever ...
  8. 105 mins
    This class will provide updates on three of the most current 'controversial' prehospital trauma talks--specifically, prehospital management of traumatic brain injury, prehospital use of TXA, and preho ...
3:30 PM
  1. 105 mins
    This class will dive deep into cutting pharmacotherapy clinical pearls for the most critical patients in the prehospital arena. Clinical scenarios will be presented along with the most up-to-date evid ...
  2. 105 mins
    This class will draw on the experiences faced by EMS supervisors and officers during civil unrest from the Ferguson events and from the protests in St. Louis County after the George Floyd incident in ...
  3. 105 mins
    Whether an act of violence, natural catastrophe, or motor vehicle pileup, a disaster is one of the greatest challenges an EMS provider will face. These events overwhelm resources, degrade the standard ...
  4. 105 mins
    This class takes a look at the develop and initial operations of a novel community paramedicine program in a large urban metropolitan service. A community needs analysis identified an opportunity to a ...
  5. 105 mins
    This interactive class discusses common behavioral health issues faced by firefighters--alcohol use disorder, depression, sleep deprivation, burnout, PTSD, and suicide. The goal is to provide attendee ...
  6. 105 mins
    From the perspective of a trauma medical director, this class discusses shock as it relates to trauma and how it applies in the prehospital setting. Trauma is something that all prehospital providers ...
10:30 AM
  1. 105 mins
    This is a sobering look at recent controversies regarding the safety of ketamine as a chemical restraint agent'patient deaths, lawsuits, media scrutiny, public outrage, and now criminal charges! What ...
  2. 105 mins
    Good vehicle extrication demands a unique collaboration between rescue and emergency medical personnel. Incorporating key victim assessment information in the extrication size-up will improve your str ...
  3. 105 mins
    This class will describe the elements required to set up a productive Officer Development Academy for new company officers, EMS captains, and 24 hours battalion chiefs. Learn how to work within constr ...
  4. 105 mins
    This class will discuss the pathophysiology of opioid addiction and withdrawals and discuss available treatments by EMS. It will explain the narcan harm reduction and buprenorphine induction treatment ...
  5. 105 mins
    On the fireground, time is not ours to waste! Our efforts should be directed to give us the greatest chance at rescuing our victims and doing so in the most efficient manner. This class will cover dat ...
  6. 105 mins
    Supervision, mentorship, and professional coaching are all distinct, important leadership and management tools. In fact, mentorship and professional coaching are the fastest growing fields in the area ...
  7. 105 mins
    EMS is playing an increasing role in the medical support of law enforcement. Interest in Rescue Task Force (RTF) and Tactical EMS (TEMS) is growing, with the realization that such programs have the po ...
  8. 105 mins
    This class outlines the importance of evaluating all products used by an organization. To date, there isn't any standardization to evaluating medical equipment for use by EMS. This class will review t ...
  9. 105 mins
    Unlike fighting a fire, the technical rescue scenario does not have an acronym to help you make decisions regarding developing an incident action plan (IAP). We can't use RECEOVS or COAL WAS WEALTH fo ...
1:30 PM
  1. 105 mins
    This class will cover the lessons learned and the changes implemented in the wake of a line-of-duty death/struck-by-vehicle incident in Lubbock, TX. A list of 16 roadway safety strategies was develope ...
  2. 105 mins
    Learn why capnography has become the gold standard for endotracheal tube verification and why this is only the beginning. Through lecture and case scenarios, you will leave this course with a thorough ...
  3. 105 mins
    We need to refocus the fire service on civilian rescue. The fire service has done a great job of emphasizing the need for firefighter safety, especially over the past 25 years. Rapid intervention, two ...
  4. 105 mins
    Emergency medical services personnel have already made substantial contributions to improving care for patients with time-dependent illnesses, such as trauma and myocardial infarction. Patients with s ...
  5. 105 mins
    Learn the operations and lessons from this unusual active shooter event in Atlanta, GA. The single perpetrator was not captured for several days after this event. Four innocent lives were taken, with ...
  6. 105 mins
    First responders are hearing a lot about a group of chemicals called PFAS: Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances. They are showing up regularly in the news these days, and firefighters seem to be ...
  7. 105 mins
    This class will describe hemorrhagic shock, especially recognizing the potential early and the signs that patients are progressing into hemorrhagic shock. As a key to assessment of trauma patients and ...
  8. 105 mins
    The goal of this class is to gain more knowledge about your own data. It covers ways to connect data and how to determine what data is important and what data is noise. You will leave armed with the k ...
  9. 105 mins
    Vehicle extrication is a puzzle. But it's not a normal puzzle; it's a puzzle with constantly changing rules. Manufacturers strive to make the best vehicle on the road so they can make the most sales. ...
  10. 105 mins
    Airway management in itself is a difficult and highly debated topic. When airway management is needed for the trauma patient, this is amplified tenfold. This class will draw from the instructor's year ...
3:30 PM
  1. 105 mins
    Part 1: There's No High-Performance CPR Without High-Performance Ventilation: What Are the Appropriate Physiological Approaches to Respiratory Support? Conventional approaches to ventilation during CP ...
  2. 105 mins
    After the Mayday occurs, it sets up a whole string of events that go beyond the operational scope of rescuing the down or trapped firefighter. There is the notification of family, hospital or morgue i ...
  3. 105 mins
    This class will review hot legal issues affecting fire and EMS organizations on a daily basis. Topics will include employee use of legalized marijuana, transgender issues in the station, federal law r ...
  4. 105 mins
    Mass-casualty training too often focuses on the expanded ICS roles of multiple companies at a large MCI. This class focuses on the first five minutes of the first company's arrival. Whether you're ass ...
  5. 105 mins
    This class prepares first responders to arrive first on scene at a water rescue. It is designed for nonwater rescue-trained members as well as experienced water rescue team members and technicians. Wa ...
  6. 105 mins
    A growing body of evidence is suggesting that the zip code where a person lives might be the single most accurate predictor for gauging lifespan. How you were raised, your 'level of education, peer in ...
8:30 AM
  1. 105 mins
    This class will discuss the approach to the fire victim, highlighting the differences between a firefighter vs. a civilian with regard to assessment and management. Students will learn the epidemiolog ...
  2. 105 mins
    Usually the first to arrive, most EMTs find themselves to be spectators at a fire scene, but that does not have to be the case. In many combination and volunteer fire departments, staffing is an issue ...
  3. 105 mins
    Distracted, drowsy, drunk, drugged, and disgruntled drivers are striking firefighters and fire apparatus at highway incidents with increasing frequency. Fire and EMS personnel must train and operate i ...
  4. 105 mins
    This class discusses the age-related physiologic changes that occur to our geriatric population and how this relates to trauma in a prehospital and emergency setting. It covers occult hypoperfusion, f ...
  5. 105 mins
    A common-sense approach to first-in hazmat that is relatable to all levels as well as volunteer and career departments, this class explains when firefighters in structural gear can make a rescue in a ...
  6. 105 mins
    This is an overview of invasive and noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring devices and correlating clinical data. The class will cover hemodynamic parameters and apply their significance into the clinical ...
  7. 105 mins
    Pulling from 81 case studies, this interactive session will share the top adjustments needed for search, fire attack, and overhaul at fires inside hoarding conditions. The lessons learned from the cas ...
  8. 105 mins
    Mayday Monday is a firefighter survival campaign with a mission of reducing firefighter injury and death on the fireground. This is done through reviewing firefighter line-of-duty-deaths. In reviewing ...
  9. 105 mins
    Firefighter health research has exploded, with more than three-quarters of the research being done in the past decade. While the peer-reviewed literature is having a significant influence on evolving ...
10:30 AM
  1. 105 mins
    In this comprehensive review, coagulopathy and its relevance to emergency medical services will be presented. Common pathophysiology that causes bleeding disorders will be explained in the context of ...
  2. 105 mins
    The role of EMS continues to dramatically evolve. Medicare and other agencies have issued waivers during the pandemic and may or may not become new models for service delivery. Agencies and practition ...
  3. 105 mins
    First responders will learn how to better recognize victims of human trafficking and how to proceed in their care and treatment. The class expands on basic recognition and gives a background to the la ...
  4. 105 mins
    Most RIT classes focus solely on finding and removing down firefighters but stop there. Current research shows, however, that most firefighters are rescued by crews already operating inside of the str ...