UNM Lifeguard

08/21/2025

Mark your calendars for the Lifeguard HALO Symposium!!!
Oct 15th-17th, 2025 at Hotel Albuquerque in Old Town

All providers. All settings. One mission.
Who should attend: students, EMS personnel, nurses, respiratory therapists, APPs, and physicians.

Pre-conference workshops are on Wednesday, Oct 15th:
• Save the Airway, Save the Day: Airway workshop
• Advanced NRP
• ECMO Skills Lab
• Ventilation skills

The main conference is Thu-Fri, Oct 16t-17th:
Choose the General Session or the HALO Critical Care OB Course. Expect hands-on training, simulation, and real-world pearls.
There will be a Social Hour on Thursday evening.

Limited scholarships are available to help cover registration. Apply through the HALO Scholarship form.
Early bird pricing ends Sep 24, 2025. Register now.
Links are provided in the bio.

07/13/2025

🚨SAVE THE DATE!🚨
For the Lifeguard HALO Symposium
Join us for our High Acuity Lifesaving Outcomes Symposium. We are hosting a high-impact, hands-on conference tailored to EMS, ED, OB, Pediatric, Neonatal, and Critical Care providers.
You can expect simulation, training, and interprofessional collaboration to prepare you for the moments that matter most. There will be hands-on specialty pre-conference sessions. Scholarships are also available to participants.
📅 October 16–17, 2025
📍 Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town
📫 800 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104
Share and save the date. More details will be available soon.
https://hsc.unm.edu/medicine/education/cpl/learn/cme-conferences/lg2025.html

07/07/2025

Join us on Wednesday for a “Hanta Virus” presentation via Zoom at our Air Medical Grand Rounds! Our presenter, Dr. Michelle Harkins, is an Intensivist specializing in Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine. She is the Co-Chief of the Adult Center for Critical Care and the Division Chief of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at UNM. Much of her clinical time is in the medical intensive care unit. She is interested in Hantavirus research, including longitudinal studies, patient outcomes, evaluating mechanisms of inflammation, and further treatment options.

Accompany us over Zoom on July 9th, 10:00-11:00
Mountain Time.
Included in our bio is the Zoom link and passcode.

06/04/2025

05/09/2025

A big congratulations to UNM Lifeguard nurse Jeni Fuller for receiving the 2024 New Mexico Nursing Excellence Award in Emergency Nursing! 🏅🚁

04/30/2025

Congratulations to Jeni for winning a New Mexico Nursing Excellence Award! As a Children’s Specialty Team flight nurse, Jeni brings critical care to the Southwest’s smallest patients. Jeni’s compassion and drive have significantly changed the standard of neonatal transport across the medically underserved regions of New Mexico and the Navajo Nation. Jeni leads by example, whether by comforting parents, standardizing neonatal practices, presenting at national conferences, or mentoring and educating medical providers across the region. Firsthand, I have seen the relief on the rural clinicians’ faces as Jeni tells them they are doing a great job, and we have it from here. In Jeni’s spare time, she helps manage the social media accounts, and chances are, if you have ever laughed at a video we have posted, Jeni created it. We are very proud to call Jeni our teammate and friend!

04/15/2025

Yesterday, UNM Lifeguard supported Cochiti Fire during an extended mountain rescue operation. After their team successfully located and rescued the patient, care was transferred to our crew for continued treatment and air transport.

We’re proud to work alongside Cochiti Fire and are grateful for the partnership during critical missions like this one. 🚁

📸: Halei Ramsey, Cochiti Fire

04/15/2025

Today Cochiti Units performed an extended mountain rescue operation and successfully rescued a patient who was then turned over to UNM Lifeguard for continued treatment and transport. Cochiti Fire frequently works with UNM Lifeguard and are grateful for their continued partnership with our department

04/14/2025

04/12/2025

Headed to CCTMC ‘25 in St Louis ✈️? We hope you’ll visit us and check out our amazing speakers. We’ve got some great things up our sleeves and we hope to see you! Sessions include K**a Sutra of the airway-Optimal Positioning for Enjoyable Airway Management by THE One and only Dr. Darren Braude. Don’t be Lactate Intolerant:A critical appraisal of POC Lactate and whether it’s right for your program Dr Sean Buehler
Critical Care Obstetrics Transport Refresher and Updates- Dr Elizabeth Garcher
Babies 101: Just the Tips-elevating your baby basics and Babies 201: Just the Tios, transporting like the pros Lindsey Hall MSN and Jeni Fuller RN

We hope we will see you there!

07/07/2024

Please join us for Air Medical Grand Rounds July 10th 10:00-11:00 MST. Joe Lewis, MSRC, RRT is a
Respiratory Therapy Professor, President-Respiratory Care Foundation of Texas, and the original Respiratory Coach. He will present on Mechanical Ventilation: Beyond the Basics. Joe has over 20 years of experience as a respiratory therapist. Having spent the early part of his career working in adult critical care & emergency medicine, Joe has spent the last 10 years working full-time as an educator in an effort to prepare & inspire all future Respiratory Therapists. Zoom Link in Bio.

06/28/2024

It’s Mike’s aka Dr Mozer’s last day, and boy are we sad to see him go. He’s worked with our crews and all around this vast state bringing his kind demeanor to the people of New Mexico. We wish you the best and hope you’ll stop by again to fly with us.