Common Emergencies

October 26, 2025

 

Will Dunn is The Associate Director of Quality and Clinical Performance – Denver Emergency Response System. This lecture included many common injuries likely to be encountered by EMS (ski patrol) on the ski hill. Included but not limited to: cold injuries (local tissue injury aka frostbite, and hypothermia), patient assessment and emergent management, clinical manifestations of accidental hypothermia with expected vital signs. Discussion of medication delivery/contraindications for cold patients for ALS providers.

Target Audience

Breckenridge Ski Patrol

Learning Objectives

Identify stages of hypothermia; preventing fatal cardiac arrhythmias; intermittent CPR; preventing afterdrop and awareness of circumrescue collapse.

Cold injuries to soft tissue

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 0.50 Medical
    • 0.50 NCCP-Medical: Special Healthcare Needs
  • 0.50 State, Local, and Individual
Course opens: 
10/26/2025
Course expires: 
10/26/2025
Event starts: 
10/26/2025 - 15:00
Event ends: 
10/26/2025 - 16:00
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
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Summit County Senior Center
Frisco, CO
United States
+1 (970) 513-5715

Will Dunn , Associate Director of Quality and Clinical Performance

Denver Emergency Response System

EMS Continuing Education approved by the State of Colorado through Centura Health Prehospital Services Training Center and group # CO 039 (SAH), #CO 040 (PSF) and #CO 065 (SDG).

Available Credit

  • 0.50 Medical
    • 0.50 NCCP-Medical: Special Healthcare Needs
  • 0.50 State, Local, and Individual

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