Continuing Education Content Areas
Consider the following topics when selecting CE for the labeled CE content areas. Additional information can be found in 1998 paramedic curriculum text books.
Preparatory
- EMS systems
- Roles and responsibilities
- Well-being of the medic
- Illness and injury prevention
- Medical/Legal issues
- Ethics
- General principles of pathophysiology
- Pharmacology
- Venous access
- Medication administration
- Therapeutic communication
- Life span development
Airway Management and Ventilation
- Airway management and ventilation
Patient Assessment
- History taking
- Techniques of physical examination
- Patient assessment
- Clinical decision making
- Communications
- Documentation
Trauma
- Trauma sys & mechanism in injury
- Hemorrhage & shock
- Soft tissue trauma
- Burns
- Head & facial trauma
- Spinal trauma
- Thoracic trauma
- Abdominal trauma
- Musculoskeletal trauma
Pediatrics
- Pediatrics
Medical
- Pulmonary
- Cardiology
- STEMI
- Stroke
- Neurology
- Endocrinology
- Allergies and anaphylaxis
- Gastroenterology
- Renal/Urology
- Toxicology
- Hematology
- Environmental Conditions
- Infectious and communicable diseases
- Behavioral and psychiatric disorders
- Gynecology
- Obstetrics
Special Considerations
- Neonatology
- Pediatrics
- Geriatrics
- Abuse and assault
- Patients with special challenges
- Acute interventions for the chronic care patient
Clinically Related Operations
- Ambulance operations
- Medical incident command
- Rescue awareness and operations
- Hazardous materials incidents
- Crime scene awareness
- Online Medical Director's Course (4-hours)
- Infection control officer
Not Allowable Topic Examples
- Ambulance vehicle maintenance
- Administrative budgeting of EMS operations
- Billing
- Fundraising