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Advanced Critical Care Paramedicine

Like Duolingo, but for Advanced Critical Care Paramedicine. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

12 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Penny the Peregrine
Advanced Critical Care Paramedicine
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12
Levels
2
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Advanced Critical Care Paramedicine

  • Alpha-1 and afterload in heart failure
  • Beta-1 and myocardial oxygen demand
  • Vascular clamping in low output
  • Acidosis and catecholamine structure
  • pH threshold for pressor response
  • Prioritizing pH correction
  • Balancing resistance and demand
  • Acidosis and catecholamine efficacy
  • Beta-receptor internalization
  • Phosphodiesterase inhibitors and cAMP
  • pH correction for catecholamine efficacy
  • Dosing for downregulated patients
  • The peri-intubation window
  • Vascular resistance vs myocardial oxygen demand
  • Push-dose pressor duration
  • Systemic Vascular Resistance (SVR) is clinically estimated by skin temperature and pulse pressure width
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Advanced Critical Care Paramedicine the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

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Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Navigating the Receptor Storm

When ye signal the crew for Beta-1 stimulation, what happens to the heart's oxygen consumption (MVO2)?

Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.

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Where Advanced Critical Care Paramedicine takes you

Move beyond standard protocols by mastering the cellular pathophysiology and receptor-level pharmacology that drive high-stakes clinical decisions in the field.

  1. 1

    Hemodynamic Precision and Receptor Logic

    • Receptor Dynamics in Shock
    • Ventilatory Strategy for the Crashing Patient
  2. 2

    Metabolic and Neurological Emergencies

    • Metabolic Derangements and Cardiac Arrest
    • Neuro-Protective Resuscitation

2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Pirate

Advanced Critical Care Paramedicine is taught in the The Pirate style: arr, learning be an adventure!. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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