Sparks Medical Resources, LLC

 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.

Course includes 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.
• 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. 

Tactical Emergency Casualty Care for Law Enforcement Officers is a classroom course specifically designed for law enforcement and other non-EMS first responders. The course covers materials found in the 16-hour TECC provider course at a level appropriate for first responders. It includes 8 hours of content, which includes interactive lectures, skill stations, and patient simulations. Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a certificate of completion, a wallet card recognizing them as a TECC-LEO provider for 4 years, and 8 hours of CAPCE credit for qualified participants. 

Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) was developed by the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency (DHA) Joint Trauma System (JTS) to teach evidence-based, life-saving techniques and strategies for providing the best trauma care on the battlefield. SMR conducts TCCC courses as specified by the DHA-JTS. SMR currently offers the All Service Members (Tier-1) course.

The foundational medical science upon which TCCC is based is published in NAEMT’s PHTLS Military textbook in which the military chapters are written by members of the JTS Committee on TCCC. TCCC courses offered by NAEMT are endorsed by the Joint Trauma System and the American College of Surgeons. 

NAEMT's Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) is recognized around the world as the leading continuing education program for prehospital emergency trauma care. The mission of PHTLS is to promote excellence in trauma patient management by all providers involved in the delivery of prehospital care. PHTLS is developed by NAEMT in cooperation with the American College of Surgeons' Committee on Trauma. The Committee provides the medical direction and content oversight for the PHTLS program. 

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.

Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) remains the gold standard of education for emergency medical assessment and treatment. Endorsed by the National Association of EMS Physicians, AMLS emphasizes the use of the AMLS Assessment Pathway, a systematic tool for assessing and managing common medical conditions with urgent accuracy.

In the 4th ed. of AMLS, students learn to recognize and manage common medical crises through realistic case-based scenarios that challenge students to apply their knowledge to highly critical patients. The course emphasizes the use of scene size-up, first impression, history, detailed physical assessment, and interactive group discussion on differential diagnosis and potential treatment strategies to systematically rule out and consider possibilities and probabilities in treating patients’ medical crises. A library of over 75 patient simulations offers students an opportunity to apply critical thinking skills to a variety of patient presentaonal features include patient simulation monitor images and ECGs provided by iSimulate, to enhance students’ experience.

The Emergency Pediatric Care (EPC) course focuses on critical pediatric physiology, illnesses, injuries and interventions to help EMS practitioners provide the best treatment for sick and injured children in the field.  The course stresses critical thinking skills to help practitioners make the best decisions for their young patients.

Topics covered include:

• The pathophysiology of the most common critical pediatric emergency issues, and critical thinking skills to help practitioners make the best decisions for their patients.
• Application of the Pediatric Assessment Triangle (PAT), a tool to help EMS practitioners rapidly and accurately assess pediatric patients.
• The importance of family-centered care.
• Understanding and communicating with children.
• Airway management, breathing and oxygenation.
• Cardiac emergencies.
• Recognizing child abuse and neglect.
• Hypoperfusion and shock.
• Newborn resuscitation.

 The Mental Health Resilience Officer course is designed to assist EMS agencies in building and supporting the mental health resilience of their personnel. Due to the difficult environments EMS practitioners encounter every day, and the impact of both direct and vicarious trauma, our EMS workforce has long faced a disproportionate challenge in maintaining their mental health resilience.

The MHRO course prepares EMS personnel to serve as their agency’s Mental Health Resilience Officer. In this role, the MHRO will engage with peers to develop an understanding of mental health issues and resilience; identify peers who are experiencing mental health stressors and crises; navigate peers in need to the right services for help; and support the development of a culture of mental health resilience and emotional wellness within the agency.

First On the Scene (FOTS), was developed by NAEMT and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC). The target audience for this course is the general public who may enounter a variety of medical emergencies.   As a community responder you may be first on the scene of an emergency event where a person’s life is in danger and you must act before EMS arrives. 

The non-professional responder is taught basic emergency response to life-threatening emergencies until EMS arrives on the scene. Through lesson presentations and hands-on skill stations, participants learn how to provide help in the event of a lifethreatening emergency and what to do until EMS arrives. You will leave this course with confidence in yourself and your team to  make a difference on someone's worst day. 

FOTS COVER

• Activating the 911 system 
• Hands-only CPR and using an AED 
• Administering naloxone 
• Administering epinephrine 
• Responding to life-threatening bleeding 
• Penetrating chest trauma 
• Moving patients to safety 
• Positioning injured patients

 NAEMT’s 3rd edition EMS Safety course teaches students how to protect themselves and their patients while on the job. It promotes a culture of safety and helps reduce the number of on-the-job fatalities and injuries. EMS Safety is the only national, comprehensive safety course for EMS practitioners. Its interactive format features real-life case studies and compelling discussions on current safety issues, and provides students with a forum to share their own experiences. Course activities allow students to apply critical thinking and best safety practices to EMS scenarios. 

Students are taught to:

• Identify and manage the hazards that can appear during daily tasks, from offensive drivers to violent encounters to chronic stress.
• Describe and apply the principles of crew resource management in EMS.
• Apply techniques to maintain safe vehicle operations.
• List and assess strategies to apply in the field that improve patient safety.
• Identify strategies to ensure practitioner safety.
• Strengthen resilience skills and focus on personal health to combat both chronic and critical incident stress.

NAEMT's Psychological Trauma in EMS Patients (PTEP) course gives EMS practitioners the resources they need to help alleviate patients’ hidden wounds – intense fear, stress and pain – during a medical emergency.

PTEP educates EMS practitioners about the biological underpinnings of psychological trauma, the short and long-term impact on the brain and body, and warning signs that a patient is experiencing extreme psychological distress. EMS practitioners are also taught strategies and techniques to alleviate patients’ distress and help patients cope with what they’re experiencing to ward off lingering effects.

The 8-hour classroom course features scenario-based interactive sessions and lectures. Topics covered include:

• The invisible wounds of psychological trauma
• Reducing psychological traumatic stress
• Understanding the physiological stress response
• Applying the eSCAPe principle to patient care
• Patient simulations
• Recognizing psychological trauma within EMS