Atlantic Life Safety Services

05/26/2025

Today is Memorial Day, a time to honor our veterans who gave the ultimate sacrifice and those who have passed on since they served. A time for remembrance and reflection for those who fought to keep us free. 🇺🇲🗽

05/24/2025

As this EMS week comes to an end we hope that all our friends who are providers have stayed safe. We recognize you for the difference you make every day!

03/08/2025

It's really not too late! But time is running out for WAVES 2025! Only 12 hrs to go before we start this amazing conference!. Join us tomorrow at 8a-6p for 7.75 hrs CEU MA and ME approved, NREMT accepted with major national speakers. Do you need those last few hours for your Mar 31st NREMT recert? Then register tonight! Price is only $80 for late registration. Just look at this course line-up!

SESSION 1: 8-845: KEYNOTE by Rory Putnam, Back to Basics: Tips and Tricks for Improving Your BLS Airway Management (Airway)
SESSION 2: 9-10a: Non-Arrhythmic Complications of MI - Paul Werfel (Cardio)
SESSION 3: 1015-1115: When the Baby Turns Blue: Brief Resolved Unexplained Events- Dr Jeff Myers, DO, EdM, EMT-P, CCP, PHP, FAEMS (Medical)
SESSION 4: 1130-1230: The Most Dangerous Five Minutes of Your EMS Career, Wes Ogilvie (Ops)
SESSION 5: 115-215p: Transport of the Stable Patient: Balancing EMS System and Patient, Martin Pelletier, MS3, NRP, CCEMTP, FP-C (Ops)
SESSION 6: 230-330p: No Sweet Tea for Me! Basic Understanding of Diabetes, Chief Ken Bouvier (Medical)
SESSION 7: 345-445p: Care of the Entrapped Patient – Jon Politis (Trauma)
SESSION 8: 5-6p: One Last Breath? The Critical Asthma Patient, Rory Putnam, AGS, CECTE, NR-P, I/C (Airway)

Use this link to join us for an amazing day of CEU!
https://checkout.square.site/merchant/ZV02B9Q22EF8V/checkout/HFTPC3OP2VPK2PQXVN7UWHRW

03/06/2025

WAVES is proud to continue introducing our Faculty and Course line up with our final instructor, WAVES conference founder Rory Putnam. Rory Putnam is a Paramedic from Windham, ME and the owner of Atlantic Life Safety, an EMS, Emergency Management & Safety education/consulting company in New England. He has over 34 years in private service, municipal and federal government EMS and EMA operations, education and communications management positions and still works in the field for York Ambulance in Maine. He is the EMS Instructor for Biddeford Regional Center of Technology. He has also been published by EMS World Magazine, written peer-reviewed CEU articles, is a frequent state, regional and national speaker and a Lead Paramedic Instructor for EMTS, Inc in northern MA. He can be reached at rputnam@atlanticlifesafety.com

Rory will be presenting our Keynote Speech, a look at improving our BLS airway skills and emphasizing the importance of great airway management. In addition, his feature course, One Last Breath? The Critical Asthma Patient will round out our day. As a more advanced look at the subject of Rory's "When Asthma Attacks", this course will focus on asthma review, a detailed look at pathophysiology of the disease, and discuss EMS treatments from an ALS perspective including assessment, pharmacological interventions and emerging hospital level approach to asthmatic patients. Emphasis will center on critical asthma patients and what we can do as providers to ensure this isn't their one last breath! Come with Rory on a journey into the life of an asthma patient and what it means to struggle to breathe, with the unique perspective of being a patient himself, he’ll help you navigate the best recognition methods and treatments available for your patients!

Rory tops off our 7 amazing instructors presenting 7.75 hrs of CEU in ONE day, THIS Sat Mar 8, 2025, 8a-6p for only $70 by Zoom. (Hours are MA/ME approved/NREMT accepted) There is STILL time to register for those last CEU hours you need.
Join us by following our link below to register: https://www.atlanticlifesafety.com/waves-online-conference
Direct Registration link: https://square.link/u/LC0oAxDn

02/12/2025

Need a lot of hours quick? One last chance to register for our combined ALS/BLS NCCR which covers 30 hrs ALS and 20 hrs BLS CEU and we start tomorrow Wed Feb 12 at 6-10pm. Register at the links below!

ALS: https://square.link/u/ehXi5bk4
BLS: https://square.link/u/EIEGOYIB

Need a lot of hours of CEU? We have a 2025 Guidelines combined ALS and BLS NCCR starting soon! Dates: Wed Feb 12, Mon Feb 24, Wed Feb 26, Mon Mar 3, Wed Mar 5, for BLS and ALS, plus 5-10p Mon 3/10 and Wed 3/12 for ALS.

Only $150 for BLS NCCR or $185 for ALS, add $75 for ACLS and PALS recert. INFLATION BUSTING! No increase from last year’s fees!

Combine with our WAVES Online EMS Symposium with 7.75 hrs and complete almost all your CEU at a special package price. See links below!

Direct Link for NCCR Registration:
ALS: https://square.link/u/ehXi5bk4
BLS: https://square.link/u/EIEGOYIB
One stop shopping: https://www.atlanticlifesafety.com/register-for-classes
Check out the combo packages as well and SAVE MORE!

02/12/2025

SURPRISE! WAVES is proud to continue introducing our Faculty and Course line up in our 6th Big Reveal with another new presenter to us, Ken Bouvier, ECO, Paramedic, who serves as the Fire Chief at the Westwego, Louisiana Fire Department. He is an Executive Chief Officer, paramedic and professional speaker known both nationally and internationally. His Fire/EMS career began in 1975 as a volunteer firefighter who advanced through the ranks to become the Fire Chief for Monsanto where he served 37 years.

Coincidingly, he worked for New Orleans EMS for 33 years and retired as Deputy Chief of Operations. While working at New Orleans EMS he commanded major New Orleans events including Mardi Gras, Super Bowls, hurricanes and managed the crews and appeared on the A&E Television Show NIGHTWATCH. Westwego Fire Department is a Class 2, Combination Department located directly across the Mississippi River from New Orleans.

Ken will be presenting, “No Sweet Tea for Me!” Basic Understanding of Diabetes. Diabetes refers to a group of diseases that affect the way your body uses blood glucose, commonly known as blood sugar. Glucose is the main source of energy for the cells that make up muscle and tissues. Glucose is your body’s main fuel! During this session we will review diabetes and how it affects patients differently. Maintaining your diabetes is a full-time responsibility. Diabetics who are non-compliant with their diet and medication often become patients and require Diabetic Emergency Care. Diabetes can lead to serious life-threatening complications. In children it is even more difficult because the child does not recognize signs and symptoms on coming. During this session we will review a unique presentation that will show how diabetes affects patients of all ages and will heavily focus on the obese patient and those that are bed bounded.

Chief Bouvier is just one of our 7 amazing instructors presenting 7.75 hrs of CEU in ONE day, Sat Mar 8, 2025, 8a-6p for only $70 by Zoom. (Hours are MA/ME approved/NREMT accepted)

Join us by following our link below to register: https://www.atlanticlifesafety.com/waves-online-conference
Direct Registration link: https://square.link/u/LC0oAxDn

02/06/2025

WAVES is proud to continue introducing our Faculty and Course line up in our 5th Big Reveal with presenter Paul Werfel, MS, NRP. Paul is the CEO The Werfel Group LLC, a public safety consulting firm. A prolific international speaker, and author of over 50 articles, magazine columns, and book sections, Paul was the EMT and Paramedic Program Director at Stony Brook University for thirty-one years. In addition to fourteen years as a NYC Paramedic, Professor Werfel has served as: The Program Coordinator for Advanced Cardiac, Trauma and Pediatric life support at the Emergency Care Institute at Bellevue Hospital-NYU Medical Center in New York City, and as Emergency Care Programs Coordinator at Jamaica Hospital, Queens N.Y. In addition to being the Director of the Stony Brook Program, He also served as Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Clinical Assistant Professor of Health Science. As a recipient of the 1998 Faculty Achievement Award, Professor Werfel is also a member of the review boards for Pre-hospital and Disaster Medicine, and Pre-Hospital Immediate Care Magazines. He is an expert writer for the National Standard EMT-Intermediate/Paramedic Curriculum revision project, and, a founding Board of Directors Member of the National EMS Educator’s Association. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Policy from SUNY Empire State College and a Masters Degree in Health Policy and Management from Stony Brook University and is a frequent standard of care expert for litigation involving EMS practitioners and systems.

Frequently featured on videos and radio programs, Professor Werfel was a member of the editorial board for EMS World Magazine and for many years held the same position with JEMS magazine, authoring the “Ask the Educator” column on the JEMS web site as well as primary author for the “Case of the Month” column In JEMS magazine for seven years. A book “Clinical Clues”, based upon those columns was published and released by Mosby/Jems in February 2003. He lives in Port Jefferson New York with his wife and three children.

Paul will be presenting “Beyond the Obvious: Non-Arrhythmic Complications of MI" from 9a-10a. We are all aware that an acute myocardial infarction is the result of a dynamic process where a coronary artery is blocked by thrombus formation. We know that patients die as a direct result of the MI. But what about the patient that “recovers” from the MI but dies soon after? Are there non-ischemic and non-arrhythmic complications that can have fatal consequences to patients in the recovery period? You bet! Join author Paul Werfel as he discusses these complications in a stimulating and interactive program that will discuss the causes, incidence, demographics, signs and symptoms and prehospital treatment of Left ventricular aneurysm, Left ventricular free wall rupture, Acute ventricular septal defect, Acute mitral regurgitation, Right ventricular MI, Pericarditis in a detailed look.

Paul Werfel is just one of our 7 amazing instructors presenting 7.75 hrs of CEU in ONE day, Sat Mar 8, 2025, 8a-6p for only $70 by Zoom. (Hours are MA/ME approved/NREMT accepted)
Join us by following our link below to register: https://www.atlanticlifesafety.com/waves-online-conference
Direct Registration link: https://square.link/u/LC0oAxDn

02/03/2025

It's the big reveal part 3! WAVES is proud to introduce our Faculty and Course line up with our next presenter, Wes Ogilvie, who is returning from our first several years! Wes Ogilvie is a Texas licensed and nationally registered paramedic who happens to fund his volunteer EMS habit by practicing law within Texas state government. He has a bachelor of arts in government and sociology from the University of Texas, a masters of public administration from Texas State University, and a law degree from Texas Tech University. He is licensed by the State Bar of Texas. His volunteer EMS career has given him exposure to rural, suburban, and urban EMS throughout Texas as well as providing EMS education. He has particular interests in legal education for EMS and in volunteer EMS.

Wes will be presenting: The Most Dangerous Five Minutes of Your EMS Career. Many EMS providers fail to recognize the risk that comes with obtaining a refusal from a patient. Sometimes, EMS providers fail to even identify whether someone is a patient. As a practicing attorney and paramedic, Wes is repeatedly asked to review refusals and provide guidance and education. In this class, Wes will go over the risks involved in obtaining a refusal, as well as how to minimize the risks to you, your employer, your wallet, and your certification.

Wes is just one of our 7 amazing instructors presenting 7.75 hrs of CEU in ONE day, Sat Mar 8, 2025, 8a-6p for only $70!
Join us by following our link below to register:
https://www.atlanticlifesafety.com/waves-online-conference
Direct Registration link: https://square.link/u/bAXCWXig

02/03/2025

It's the big reveal part 4! WAVES is proud to introduce our Faculty and Course line up with our next presenter, Martin Pelletier. Martin Pelletier is a third-year medical student at Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University (RFU) and a student researcher at the Resuscitation Institute under Dr. Raúl Gazmuri. Before coming to Chicago for his medical education, Martin worked as a paramedic
for both Brewster Ambulance in the Greater Boston Area and Canton Rescue, Inc. in Northern New York. He earned his BS in biology with a minor in chemistry from St. Lawrence University.
Martin is an active member of the National Association of EMS Physicians, the founder of the student organization EMS Advocacy; at RFU, and a co-instructor at Lutheran General Hospital’s Paramedic Program. He developed “The High-Performance Lab” for EMS at RFU: a day long continuing education symposium for paramedics involving human cadavers and other advanced simulation. Marty has also been published in JEMS and will be speaking about his article topic.

Marty will be presenting: Transport of the Stable Patient: Balancing EMS System and Patient Needs - For EMS in 2025, the adage of “transport to the closest appropriate emergency department” has expanded. For many EMS systems, patients take part in joint decision making with choice of destination when it comes to emergency rooms and alternative healthcare locations. In many cases, the geographically closest emergency department might not be the most ideal option for the patient. But in a world of limited EMS resources, to what extent should patients be able to choose their destination? In this lecture, we will examine practices in how EMS handles transport for medically stable patients who do not require a specialty center (e.g. a trauma center). We will weigh in on legal precedents and the four pillars of bioethics (autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice) and explore their application EMS system protocols and policies for stable patient destination options. Finally, we will discuss what EMTs and paramedics can do to optimize an individual patient’s autonomy while maintaining justice for all patients when it comes to EMS resource availability and destination choice.

Marty is just one of our 7 amazing instructors presenting 7.75 hrs of CEU in ONE day, Sat Mar 8, 2025, 8a-6p for only $70!
Join us by following our link below to register:
https://www.atlanticlifesafety.com/waves-online-conference
Direct Registration link: https://square.link/u/bAXCWXig

01/18/2025

It's the big reveal part 2! WAVES is proud to introduce our Faculty and Course line up with our next presenter, Jon Politis. Jon is a proven and respected emergency services leader and educator. Becoming an EMT in 1971, he has served in many capacities...EMT, firefighter, ski patroller, paramedic, paramedic program director, state EMS official (VT and NY), EMS and Fire Chief.

He has a reputation of integrity and solid leadership in both career and volunteer organizations. He served on the Board of Directors of the National Registry of EMTs, Committee on Accreditation for the EMS Professions, been co-investigator of original research and authored numerous articles and texts. In 1989 he lead the Town of Colonie, NY to consolidate the Town’s six Rescue Squads into a single municipal EMS department. He served as the Chief of the Town of Colonie EMS Department from 1989 to 2010 when he retired. During his tenure as Chief, Colonie EMS won two national awards, two regional awards and the New York State EMS service of the year award. In retirement he served as the interim director of a community ambulance service and led them through a consolidation effort with a neighboring agency. He has also serve as the Chief of his community volunteer fire department and still serves as a paramedic and fire officer.

Jon will be presenting: Care of the Entrapped Patient Critically injured patients who are entrapped are some of the most difficult to care for: The ABC’s, temperature control, analgesia, sedation, extrication. The essence of pre-hospital care is the treatment of patients in these circumstances, but many providers today understand very little about this type of “rescue” medicine. This presentation is an in depth look at caring for patients who are entrapped and essentials of packaging and removal. (JEMS feature story April 2009)

Jon is just one of our 7 amazing instructors presenting 7.75 hrs of CEU in ONE day, Sat Mar 8, 2025, 8a-6p for only $70!
Join us by following our link below to register:

https://www.atlanticlifesafety.com/waves-online-conference
Direct Registration link: https://square.link/u/bAXCWXig