MEDICAL FUNDAMENTALS

Some things never change, and these lectures reflect those truly basic knowledge principles of medical care. Constantly updated with tweaks & clarifications, the material presented here helps you build a solid core for your prehospital, nursing and / or medical practice. 

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ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT EKGS (BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK)                         NREMT 2 Hours Category: Medical / Cardiology                                                                                                                           Review all the basic, fundamental information required to best interpret an EKG. Go from understanding how anatomy explains physiology, then take it through how anatomy + physiology = truly understanding the patterns seen on that 12 Lead are more than just "sqiggles on a page" (as one apt pupil declared!). There companion hand-outs are 1) Lecture Summary (including important diagrams) and 2) Basic Rhythm Analysis Summary

CONTINUOUS CAPNOGRAPHY~THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE                                                                   NREMT 2 Hours Category: Respiratory / Airway / Ventilation Understanding continuous capnography is as essential of a skill as reading a 12 Lead EKG, inserting an IV, taking a vital sign - in fact, you could make an argument that the end-tidal CO2 reading is possibly MORE important in patient assessment than the oxygen saturation (oh yeah...I said it out-loud)! Building up from the foundation of understanding the anatomy and physiology of respiration and ventilation, you'll be confidently interpreting capnograms by the end of this lecture plus learn how to predict "impending doom" just by watching a waveform.

FUNDAMENTALS OF RESPIRATORY ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY                                                                                NREMT 1 Hour Category: Respiratory / Airway / Ventilation                                                                                                              Take an hour and refresh your brain (and lungs) with really understanding how respiratory and ventilation are very different but intrinsically bound together to keep us alive. Breathing is way, way more involved than just "taking a breath" and this lecture plainly and simply explains these very complicated processes.