The primary focus of the Advanced Emergency Medical Technician is to provide basic and limited advanced emergency medical care and transportation for critical and emergent patients who access the emergency medical system. Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians perform interventions with the basic and advanced equipment typically found on an ambulance and are a critical link from the scene to the emergency health care system.

EMTs, AEMTs, and Paramedics are required to keep up to date with education requirements set forth by the National Registry of EMTs and local regulatory authorities. This online refresher program will bring the prehospital provider up to date with new knowledge as it relates to prehospital emergency care.

The CPR/AED course teaches the student to respond to cardiac arrest by performing CPR and applying an AED. The chance of survival decreases 10% for every one minute the victim does not receive CPR. This course covers all ages including adults, children, and infants.

Basic First Aid teaches the student to respond to medical and trauma emergencies to include strokes, seizures, low blood sugar, broken bones, and many other topics.

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).

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.

Wilderness First Aid is a course intended for those who are not in the healthcare field. This course is designed to help the student gain the knowledge, skill set and confidence to be able to help in the event someone a person became injured or ill in the wilderness. With limited resources available while in the wilderness, this course can help provide the help someone might need.

Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP) are viruses carried in human blood and other body fluids that cause disease in people. There are many different bloodborne pathogens, including malaria and syphilis, but the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B (HBV), and hepatitis C (HCV) viruses, which can each lead to liver cancer, pose the most serious threat of workplace exposure.

Perhaps no other profession is more at risk of the hazards posed by bloodborne pathogens (BBP) than the medical profession, but that’s not to say that awareness and prevention measures shouldn’t be prevalent in all workplaces, because the price of ignorance can be very costly and simple understanding of some bloodborne pathogen basics, really can save lives.

This course is intended for individuals who will be required to administer oxygen in an emergency setting while waiting for responders to arrive. This course will focus on administration of oxygen to breathing and non-breathing patients, set up of the oxygen delivery system and the use of pulse oximetry.

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).

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.

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).

This course is for healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies and for personnel in emergency response

The AHA offers two separate courses for healthcare providers who require training in pediatric care. This course reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

This course is for healthcare providers who respond to emergencies in infants and children and for personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units

PHTLS courses improve the quality of trauma care and decrease mortality. The program is based on a philosophy stressing the treatment of the multi-system trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. PHTLS promotes critical thinking as the foundation for providing quality care. It is based on the belief that, given a good fund of knowledge and key principles, EMS practitioners are capable of making reasoned decisions regarding patient care.

According to NRS 450B, EMS providers are required to show evidence of certification in training for dealing with people with disabilities. This course meets the requirements set forth by NRS 450B.

The Administer Immunizations and Dispense Medications (AIDM) course is an online course to provide the foundations for EMS providers to provide immunizations in a community health setting.

EMTs, AEMTs, and Paramedics are required to keep up to date with education requirements set forth by the National Registry of EMTs and local regulatory authorities. This online refresher program will bring the prehospital provider up to date with new knowledge as it relates to prehospital emergency care.

Emergency Medical Technicians are the first level of provider in the prehospital environment.  EMTs typically respond on an ambulance and provide life saving measures before someone gets to the hospital.

As the Southern Nevada Health District releases updates to its protocols, its licensed ambulance attendants must complete training to use the new protocols. Check here for the most up to date SNHD protocol training.