Advanced clinical insights & practice: ischemic heart disease.
This issue sees the debut of a new series of continuing education articles. The series, Advanced Clinical Insights & Practice, is designed to provide continuing education to an ever-expanding realm of paramedicine that needs more of it: the critical care transport paramedic. Secondly, and equally important, are the benefits that can be reaped by other certification levels reading this feature. For EMT-Basics and Intermediates, it will provide a great enhancement to your core knowledge, although most of the interventions discussed will be beyond your traditional scope. For paramedics, it will augment both your pathophysiological understanding and clinical assessment/management skills of diseases and injuries discussed. Ultimately though, it is hoped that anyone who reads these articles will become a better clinician. The next article will appear in the July issue.
Benner
Randall W
RW
Emergency Medical Technology Program, Youngstown State University, OH, USA.
Zavarella
Matthew S
MS
D022561:Advanced Cardiac Life Support / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004634:Emergency Medical Technicians / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D015425:Myocardial Reperfusion; D012307:Risk Factors; D014187:Transportation of Patients