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EMT Learning Series
A step-by-step video course for Emergency Medical Technicians, EMT students and everyone in pre-hospital care, from the basics of emergency medical services to hands-on skills. New episodes appear here automatically, in order.
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Books by Dr. Gireesh Kumar K. P. Free study material downloads straight away; printed books are sold on Amazon.
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Quick Tools
Bedside calculators built from the AETCM ICU Drugs, Mechanical Ventilation and CLD Case Sheet books. They work offline in the app.
ICU infusion calculator
Educational aid only. Check every dose, dilution and pump setting against your unit protocol, the product label and the patient before use.
Ventilator: predicted body weight, tidal volume and oxygenation
Formulas and targets: AETCM Mechanical Ventilation, chapters 8, 11 and 16 and Appendix A. Open the book
Educational aid only. Settings must be adjusted to the patient, the ventilator and your unit protocol.
ABG interpreter
Five-step method, Winter's formula, compensation rules and anion gap from AETCM Mechanical Ventilation, chapter 11 and Appendix A; alkalosis compensation uses the standard rules. Open the book
Educational aid only. Always interpret blood gases with the clinical picture.
Child–Pugh score: severity and mortality in cirrhosis
Child–Pugh table and one-year survival: AETCM Chronic Liver Disease Case Sheet, page 16. Two-year survival and operative mortality are the figures usually quoted with the score (Pugh 1973; Mansour 1997). Open the book
Educational aid only. Survival figures are population estimates from older studies, not a prediction for one patient. Use MELD-Na for transplant listing and decide with the clinical picture.
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About AETCM
Academy for Emergency, Trauma & Critical Care Medicine · a charitable trust
AETCM was founded on 4 May 2016 by Dr. Gireesh Kumar K. P. as a free medical education initiative, together with alumni of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi. AETCM is a charitable trust.
AETCM is a free medical education platform. It was initially started for emergency medicine doctors, students and paramedical staff, to share practical, protocol-based emergency care through books, case discussions and video lessons.
Today it caters to all medical, allied health, nursing and dental students, from undergraduate question banks to postgraduate exam manuals, and also has content for the general public, such as home first aid in Malayalam. Everything on the platform is free.
To improve knowledge for everyone, so that financial condition is never a hurdle to attaining knowledge.
- 40+ free booksQuestion banks, case sheets, manuals and guides, to read online or download.
- Video lessonsChapter-wise emergency medicine lessons with notes, and case discussions on YouTube.
- For every learnerMedical, allied health, nursing and dental students, residents, doctors and paramedical staff.
- For the general publicFirst aid and health information in simple language, including Malayalam.
- A charitable trustRun as a charitable trust: no sign-up and no fee to read, watch or learn.
Contact
Dr. Gireesh Kumar K. P.
Director, AETCM
- AETCM
- Director
- Role
- Principal, Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi
- Department
- Head and Professor, Emergency Medicine
- Recognition
- National Excellence Award in Emergency Medicine, SEMI, 2015
Dr. Gireesh Kumar K. P. is the Director of AETCM and one of the pioneers of emergency medicine in India. At Amrita he helped establish the MD programme in Emergency Medicine and training for emergency medical technicians, and he now serves as Principal of Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi.
He has written more than a dozen books on emergency care, including the Handbook of Diabetic Emergencies, and leads the faculty team behind MD/MS Mandatory Essentials.
AETCM carries his practical, protocol-driven teaching to learners beyond the classroom through its YouTube channel and publications.
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Can colleges use these books?
Free titles may be shared within your institution for teaching. For paid titles, write to us about an institutional licence.
Can I suggest a topic for a video?
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aetcmamrita@gmail.comDepartment of Emergency Medicine
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences
Kochi, Kerala