Hackensack University Medical Center’s Mobile Intensive Care Unit Offers Unique Class for EMTs

An inaugural class was recently held at the Northvale Volunteer Ambulance Corps for a new course, “30,000 Feet for Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs),” created by George Carter, MICP, NREMT-P, EMT-B of Hillsdale, a paramedic and lieutenant of the Westwood Fire Department. More than 15 EMTs attended the session.

Mr. Carter has been a member of the Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) Mobile Intensive Care Unit (MICU) since 1996, and was prompted to prepare the course materials and submit them to the State Department of Health and Senior Services for approval after reading an article in The New York Times. The course covered common medical emergencies on today’s commercial airlines and a review of EMT basics. Typical emergencies include allergic reactions, cuts, motion sickness, diabetes, respiratory, cardiac, stroke, childbirth, and possibly even death.

Larry Craven, president of the Northvale Volunteer Ambulance Corps stated, “My wife and I recently flew to Germany and I felt so much more prepared after attending this course to handle any emergency that might occur.”
The two-hour course is available to all local squads and two CEUs are granted upon course completion. For more information on how to schedule or attend a class, please contact Glenn MacDonald, paramedic and MICU coordinator at HUMC, by telephone at 201-678-1606 or by e-mail at: gmacdonald@humed.com.

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Pictured: George Carter, MICP, NREMT-P, EMT-B of Hillsdale, paramedic at Hackensack University Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit (MICU) and lieutenant of the Westwood Fire Department, teaches an inaugural class at the Northvale Ambulance Corps for EMTs.