How is a Critical Care Paramedic different from a Paramedic?
The critical care paramedic course is an 80-hour program which builds on the basic paramedic curriculum and goes into further detail on topics like advanced pharmacology, cardiology, rapid sequence intubation, 12-lead EKGs, blood administration, critical care transport considerations, flight physiology, advanced airway techniques and more. In our department, any interfacility transport in which the patient is receiving blood, is intubated and paralyzed, or is receiving a medication drip that is not commonly given or maintained by paramedics is taken by a critical care paramedic. We send all our paramedics to the critical care program after one-year of service.
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