Class Schedule

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ACLS (AHA Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support)

The AHA’s ACLS course builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

Who should take this course?

  • Healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies and for personnel in emergency response
  • Attendees must have current BLS card.

What does this course teach?

  • Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device, and use of an AED
  • Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest
  • Recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia
  • Airway management
  • Related pharmacology
  • Management of ACS and stroke
  • Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team
ACLS Renewal (AHA Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support)

The AHA’s ACLS course builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

Who should take this course?

  • Healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies and for personnel in emergency response
  • Attendees must have current ACLS and BLS card.

What does this course teach?

  • Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device, and use of an AED
  • Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest
  • Recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia
  • Airway management
  • Related pharmacology
  • Management of ACS and stroke
  • Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team
AEMT (Advanced Emergency Medical Technician)

This course is a combination of independent study and in-person classes. You will come to class on Tuesday Jan 7th for an administrative session. You will then have a few  weeks of independent study coming back in-person class on Tuesday Feb 4th. Class will then be held Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 1800-2100. There will also be classes on the following Saturdays from 0900-1700: 3/8, 4/5, 5/3 and 5/24 . After the class on 5/15 you will go back to independent study until Saturday 5/24. The last class is on 5/29.

A link to the E-Book is included in the price of the class. If you wish to purchase a hard copy please contact us at 802-246-1352 or hello@vemsa.org.

This course is designed for EMTs who have field experience and are interested in taking the next step in their prehospital medical career. The Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) course prepares the student to provide prehospital assessment and care for patients of all ages with a variety of medical conditions and traumatic injuries. Areas of study include anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, medical emergencies, traumatic injuries, special considerations for working in the prehospital setting, and providing patient transportation.

At the completion of this course the student shall be able to:

  • Describe the role of EMS in the health care system.
  • Demonstrate the professional attributes expected of AEMTs.
  • Perform the roles and responsibilities of an AEMT regarding personal safety and wellness, as well as the safety of others.
  • Perform the duties of an AEMT with regard for medical-legal and ethical issues, including functioning under medical direction and within the scope of practice.
  • Apply principles of anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, life span development, and therapeutic communications to the assessment and management of patients.
  • Identify the need for and perform immediately lifesaving interventions to manage a patient’s airway, breathing, and circulation including the use of capnography.
  • Assess and manage patients of all ages with a variety of complaints, medical conditions, and traumatic injuries.
  • Apply principles of emergency medical services operations, including considerations in ambulance and air medical transportation, multiple-casualty incidents, gaining access to and extricating patients, hazardous materials incidents, and responding to situations involving weapons of mass destruction.
  • Initiate intravenous and intraosseous access and administer select medications through approved methodology.
  • Insert a supraglottic airway for management of patients in cardiopulmonary failure.
  • Understand the basic principles of electrocardiography and the acquisition of a 12 lead EKG.
Animal Rescue Training

This class blends operational skills for swiftwater rescue, surface water rescue, and technical small animal rescue for application in a flood response.  The class will start with a classroom session to cover all the topics required then go out into the field for practicals and rescue scenarios.

Must be 18 to attend class

Bloodbourne Pathogens

This course is for anyone who may come in contact with blood and other body fluids while providing care for someone who is sick or injured. We teach the American Heart Association curriculum for this course. Upon successful completion you will recieve a certificate of course completion valid for 1 year.

Cost of the program includes textbook, certificate and in-person course.

BLS (AHA Basic Life Support for HCP)

The AHA’s BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

 

Who should take this course?

  • The AHA’s BLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.

What does this course teach?

  • High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
  • The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components
  • Important early use of an AED
  • Effective ventilations using a barrier device
  • Importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
  • Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants
BLS Renewal (AHA Basic Life Support for HCP)

 

The AHA’s BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

 Who should take this course?

  • The AHA’s BLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.

What does this course teach?

  • High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
  • The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components
  • Important early use of an AED
  • Effective ventilations using a barrier device
  • Importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
  • Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants
Effective Leadership Communications

This class is a free continuing education opportunity for EMS leaders to understand the complexities and best practices of effective leadership communication. The training will be lead by Rommie Duckworth. Issues will include: effective debriefing, differentiating between "telling" and "teaching," the four-step model of experiential learning, and much more. The class is free due to grant funding from VT EMS.

 

EMT (Emergency Medical Technician - Basic)

The Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) course prepares the student to provide prehospital assessment and care for patients of all ages with a variety of medical conditions and traumatic injuries. Areas of study include an introduction to emergency medical services systems, roles and responsibilities, anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, medical emergencies, traumatic injuries, special considerations for working in the prehospital setting, and providing patient transportation

Course Objectives:

At the completion of this course the student shall be able to:

• Describe the role of EMS in the health care system.

• Demonstrate the professional attributes expected of EMTs.

• Perform the roles and responsibilities of an EMT regarding personal safety and wellness, as well as the safety of others.

• Perform the duties of an EMT with regard for medical-legal and ethical issues, including functioning under medical direction and within the scope of practice.

• Apply principles of anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, life span development, and therapeutic communications to the assessment and management of patients.

• Identify the need for and perform immediately lifesaving interventions to manage a patient’s airway, breathing, and circulation.

• Assess and manage patients of all ages with a variety of complaints, medical conditions, and traumatic injuries.

• Apply principles of emergency medical services operations, including considerations in ambulance and air medical transportation, multiple-casualty incidents, gaining access to and extricating patients, hazardous materials incidents, and responding to situations involving weapons of mass destruction.

 

Flood Boat Operator

Flood Boat Operator is a course designed to train rescue personnel in handling motorized boats during flood operations. Students are exposed to a number of topics including types of motorized boats suitable for water rescue, boat handling on still or slowly moving water, crew roles, boat safety and problem solving. Techniques are then put to work doing searches in flood environments, stranded victim and in-water retrieval, and rescue of conscious and unconscious persons.

Contact hours

24 hours

Prerequisites

  • Minimum age: 18.
  • Must be a confident swimmer.
Heartsaver CPR for Community Members

The AHA’s Heartsaver CPR AED Course is designed for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for their job, regulatory (e.g., OSHA), or other requirements, or anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting.

Heartsaver First Aid and CPR for Community Members

The AHA’s Heartsaver (First Aid and/or CPR AED) Course is designed for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for their job, regulatory (e.g., OSHA), or other requirements, or anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting.

You will learn:

First Aid Module

  • First aid basics
  • Medical emergencies
  • Injury emergencies
  • Environmental emergencies
  • Preventing illness and injury
  • Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies

CPR AED Module

  • Adult CPR and AED use
Heartsaver First Aid for Community Members

The Heartsaver First Aid course trains participants first aid basics for the most common first aid emergencies, including how to recognize them, how to call for help, and how to perform lifesaving skills. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) and the 2015 AHA/Red Cross Guidelines for First Aid.

Who should take this course?

The AHA Heartsaver First Aid Course is designed for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in first aid to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.

What does this course teach?

  • First aid basics
  • Medical emergencies
  • Injury emergencies
  • Environmental emergencies
  • Preventing illness and injury
PALS (AHA Pediatric Advanced Life Support)

PALS is geared towards healthcare providers who respond to emergencies in infants and children and for personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units.

Who should take this course?

  • Healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of emergencies in infants and children.
  • Attendees must have current BLS for HCP CPR card.

What does this course teach?

  • Includes realistic, clinical scenarios that encourage active participation – delivered through actual pediatric patient videos and lifelike simulations
  • Comprehensive and includes our systematic approach to assess and treat pediatric patients in emergency situations
  • Hands-on class format to reinforce skills proficiency
  • Co-branded with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
  • Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device, and use of an AED
  • Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest
  • Airway management
  • Related pharmacology
  • Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team
PALS Renewal (AHA Pediatric Advance Life Support)

PALS is geared towards healthcare providers who respond to emergencies in infants and children and for personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units.

Who should take this course?

  • Healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of emergencies in infants and children.
  • Attendees must have current BLS for HCP CPR card.

What does this course teach?

  • Includes realistic, clinical scenarios that encourage active participation – delivered through actual pediatric patient videos and lifelike simulations
  • Comprehensive and includes our systematic approach to assess and treat pediatric patients in emergency situations
  • Hands-on class format to reinforce skills proficiency
  • Co-branded with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
  • Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device, and use of an AED
  • Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest
  • Airway management
  • Related pharmacology
  • Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team
Structural Ropes Seminar

This seminar will go over various aspects of structural rope work.

Swiftwater Rescue Technician (SRT)

The SRT course is taught by experience instructors who not only teach but actively responded to rescues. This course provides rescuers with the fundamentals of survival in moving water. It's recommended for anyone who may respond to in-water rescues. Students will gain knowledge in hydrology and river classifications, size-up, site control and scene management. Practical skills for this course include self-rescue, swiftwater swimming and the fundamentals of shore, boat and in-water rescues. Students will also be introduced to basic boat handling and rope rescue.

Contact hours

24 hours

Prerequisites

  • Minimum age: 18
  • Confident Swimmer

Qualification valid for

3 years

 

TECC - Tactical Emergency Casualty Care

The 2nd edition of NAEMT's Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) course teaches EMS practitioners and other prehospital providers how to respond to and care for patients in a civilian tactical environment.

The course presents the three phases of tactical care and integrates parallel EMS nomenclature:

  • Hot Zone/Direct Threat Care that is rendered while under attack or in adverse conditions.
  • Warm Zone/Indirect Threat Care that is rendered while the threat has been suppressed but may resurface at any point.
  • Cold Zone/Evacuation Care that is rendered while the casualty is being evacuated from the incident site. 

The 16-hour classroom course includes all new patient simulations and covers the following topics:

  • Hemorrhage control including immediate action drills for tourniquet application throughout the course;
  • Complete coverage of the MARCH assessment;
  • Surgical airway control and needle decompression;
  • Strategies for treating wounded responders in threatening environments;
  • Caring for pediatric patients;
  • Techniques for dragging and carrying victims to safety; and
  • A final, mass-casualty/active shooter event simulation.

NAEMT's TECC course is endorsed by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, is consistent with the current guidelines established by the Committee on TECC (Co-TECC), and meets all of the updated National Tactical Emergency Medical Support Competency Domains. This course is accredited by CAPCE for 16 hours of continuing education credit, and recognized by NREMT.

 

***THIS PROGRAM WILL COVER CONTENT THAT CAN BE VERY SENSITIVE. THERE WILL BE OPEN DISCUSSIONS ABOUT RESPONSES TO VARIOUS SHOOTING SENARIOS AS WELL AS PICTURES OF TRAUMATIC INJURIES***

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 1096 VT Rt 30
Newfane, VT 05345

phone (802) 246-1352

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