Florida Emergency Medicine Foundation

The Cardiac Critical Care Course (C4) has been designed to help in updating and reviewing your knowledge base in acute cardiac care and related topics. The topics covered include the knowledge base needed for a 2 year ACLS review plus other topics that are important to keep you prepared for acute cardiac care of the 21st century.

C4 has been developed by the Florida Emergency Medicine Foundation in partnership with and funded by a Florida Department of Health, Bureau of Emergency Medical Services Matching Grant (2002-2003).

In order for you to use C4 as an “ACLS Equivalent” recertification course your EMS System Medical Director should certify your skills in airway control and IV access separately from this knowledge and decision based course. You should also be certified by your EMS System Medical Director to be familiar with your particular system protocols for acute cardiac care.

This course can be taken by an individual or projected to large groups. The course is designed so that you may utilize a self pace process by advancing to the next slide if you are familiar with the content of the slide currently displayed. Your knowledge base will be tested through a multiple choice test that is supplied at the end of each lecture.

To obtain continuing education credits (State of Florida EMS, CECBEMS, Nursing) and ACLS equivalency all eleven lecture‘s posttest and course evaluation must be completed and returned to FEMF via fax (407) 281-4407 or mail 3717 South Conway Road, Orlando, Florida 32812. Certificates of Completion will then be awarded by FEMF

Our goal is to make cardiac recertification more “user friendly”, and to let you and your EMS system move through this education utilizing self paced educational process. FEMF strives to provide you with a high quality EMS educational product. We would appreciate any feedback that you would like to provide on the C4 program.

Contact John Todaro, REMT-P, RN, TNS to inquire about the Cardiac Critical Care Course.

Editorial Team

Physician Clinical Editor
Richard S. Slevinski, MD, FACEP
EMS Medical Director
State of Florida
Emergency Physician
Sacred Heart Hospital
Pensacola, Florida
President
Florida Emergency Medicine Foundation
Orlando, Florida

Faculty/Authors

Evaluation of Cardiac Rhythms
Maureen Campbell D.O., FACEP
Attending Physician Emergency Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Medical Director EMS Education and
Training Nova Southeastern University
Clinical Professor Nova Southeastern
University
Medical Director Cooper City Fire Rescue
Miami, Florida

Aneurysms and Hypertensive Crisis
John Geeslin, MD
Lake/Sumter EMS Medical Director
Mount Dora, Florida
. Stroke
David Lee Gordon, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology &
Medicine Assistant Director
Center for Research in Medical Education
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

Techniques of Airway Control
David M. LaCombe, NREMT-P
EMS Education Coordinator
Acadian Ambulance Service
Lafayette, Louisiana

Death and Dying
Geoffrey T. Miller, NREMT-P
Assistant Director, Emergency Medical
Skills Training
Center for Research in Medical Education
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

Techniques to Administer Drugs
Ivan A. Mustafa
Lieutenant/Paramedic, RN, BSN
Seminole County Fire/Rescue
Sanford, Florida
Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
North Florida Regional Medical Center
Gainesville, Florida

EMS/Nursing Clinical Editor
Managing Editor
John Todaro, REMT-P, RN, TNS
Director of Education
Florida Emergency Medicine Foundation
Director
Emergency Medicine Learning & Resource Center
Orlando, Florida

Electrocution
Joe Nelson, DO. FACOEP, FACEP
EMS Medical Director
AMR Florida, Davie Fire Rescue (FL)
Clearwater, Florida

Drug and Electrical Therapy
Charles Sand, MD, FACEP, FACP
Emergency Physician, St Joseph's Hospital
Medical Director, Bayflight (Tampa, FL)
Contributing Editor, AHA ACLS Provider
Manual
Tampa, Florida

Drowning
David C. Seaberg, M.D., F.A.C.E.P.
Professor and Assoc. Chairman, Dept.
Emergency Medicine
Chief of Emergency Services
Shands Hospital, University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

Evaluation and Treatments of Pain
David C. Seaberg, M.D., F.A.C.E.P.
Professor and Assoc. Chairman, Dept.
Emergency Medicine
Chief of Emergency Services
Shands Hospital, University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

Recognition and Treatment of MI
Richard S. Slevinski, MD, FACEP
EMS Medical Director
State of Florida
Emergency Physician
Sacred Heart Hospital
Pensacola, Florida
President
Florida Emergency Medicine Foundation
Orlando, Florida