Critical and Intensive Care Practice /Critical care for EMS

This course will introduce student to the fundamentals of intensive and critical care transport including: operations, safety, advanced pharmacology, flight physiology, advanced airway management, ventilator operation, hemodynamic instability in the critical patient, cardiac assisted devices, chest tube management, maintenance of central lines and infusion pumps, necessary knowledge about functioning of intensive care units and other important areas of Intensive and Critical Care practice.
(Pre-requisite is EMS 413)