Reviews the paramedic's role in Florida interfacility transport: EMTALA and transfer law awareness, transfers within scope versus those requiring critical care staffing, managing common transfer therapies, and ventilated patient transport.
Covers the post-ROSC care bundle at the ALS level and resuscitation modifications for drowning, hypothermia, pregnancy, opioid-associated arrest, electrocution, and traumatic cardiac arrest.
Addresses the operational threats that injure EMS providers: roadway operations and struck-by prevention, standard and transmission-based precautions with exposure reporting, injury-prevention ergonomics, and escalating-violence recognition.
Covers threat-based care for civilian high-threat incidents built on C-TECC guidelines with ALS applications: phase-based interventions, MARCH at ALS depth including airway and needle decompression under threat, and rescue task…
Provides systematic 12-lead interpretation for the field: STEMI criteria by territory with reciprocal changes, right-sided and posterior leads, STEMI imposters, occlusion-MI patterns beyond classic criteria, serial ECGs, and complete STEMI…
Examines how evidence changes ALS practice and reviews defensible documentation, high-risk encounters including refusals, restraints, and controlled substance accountability, just-culture quality improvement, and registry data feedback loops.

