Notice: CE hours shown are for the 4 year period.
| Content Areas |
ECA |
EMT |
EMT-I |
EMT-P and Licensure |
| Preparatory |
3 |
6 |
9 |
12 |
| Airway Management & Ventilation |
3 |
6 |
9 |
12 |
| Patient Assessment |
2 |
4 |
6 |
8 |
| Trauma |
3 |
6 |
9 |
12 |
| Medical |
9 |
18 |
27 |
36 |
| Special Considerations |
3 |
6 |
9 |
12 |
| Clinically Related Operations |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
| Pediatric |
3 |
6 |
9 |
12 |
| Minimum units in content areas |
27 |
54 |
81 |
108 |
| Additional units in any approved category |
9 |
18 |
27 |
36 |
| Total required for recertification eligibility |
36 |
72 |
108 |
144 |
Continuing Education Content Areas
Consider the following topics when selecting CE for the labeled CE content areas.
Additional information can be found in 1998 paramedic curriculum text books.
↓ PREPARATORY
- EMS systems
- Roles and responsibilities
- Well-being of the medic
- Illness and injury prevention
- Medical/Legal issues
- Ethics
- General principles of pathophysiology
- Pharmacology
- Venous access
- Medication administration
- Therapeutic communication
- Life span development
↓ AIRWAY MANAGEMENT & VENTILATION
- Airway management & ventilation
↓ PATIENT ASSESSMENT
- History taking
- Techniques of physical examination
- Patient assessment
- Clinical decision making
- Communications
- Documentation
↓ TRAUMA
- Trauma sys & mechanism in injury
- Hemorrhage & shock
- Soft tissue trauma
- Burns
- Head & facial trauma
- Spinal trauma
- Thoracic trauma
- Abdominal trauma
- Musculoskeletal trauma
↓ MEDICAL
- Pulmonary
- Cardiology
- Neurology
- Endocrinology
- Allergies and anaphylaxis
- Gastroenterology
- Renal/Urology
- Toxicology
- Hematology
- Environmental Conditions
- Infectious and communicable diseases
- Behavioral and psychiatric disorders
- Gynecology
- Obstetrics
↓ SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
- Neonatology
- Pediatrics
- Geriatrics
- Abuse and assault
- Patients with special challenges
- Acute interventions for the chronic care pt
↓ CLINICALLY RELATED OPERATIONS
- Ambulance operations
- Medical incident command
- Rescue awareness and operations
- Hazardous materials incidents
- Crime scene awareness
Examples of topics which are NOT ALLOWED include:
- ambulance vehicle maintenance
- administrative budgeting of EMS operations
- billing
- fundraising