Judy Haluka

Judy Haluka is the lead instructor for Pacific Medical Training. She has helped write or review several medical publications for us. Everything that she works on will clearly include her name.

Professional summary

Proprietor — EMSConEd

• Provide advanced cardiac life support, pediatric advanced life support and basic cardiac life support certification courses for anesthesia providers in the tri-state area
• Provide training in prehospital trauma life support, ACLS, PALS, BCLS, 12-lead ECG interpretation, basic arrhythmias to nurses, physicians, paramedics and EMT’s in the tri-state area
• Pennsylvania Department of Health continuing education sponsor for prehospital care providers

Science writer — Modern Training Solutions

• Develop and prepare course content for online courses including advanced cardiac life support, pediatric advanced life support, basic cardiac life support, 12-lead ECG interpretation and basic arrhythmias
• Provide input and review of online materials for scientific accuracy
• Vfib vs vtach, and everything else you need to learn

Senior cardiovascular technologist

• Scrub second person for invasive diagnostic and interventional cardiac and peripheral vascular procedures — obtaining vascular access, injecting coronary arteries, and interventional wire manipulation
• Responsible for maintaining multi-million dollar inventory for tertiary Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, successfully converted from a manual inventory system to a barcode based system
• Provide continuing education to the Cardiac Catheterization Lab staff including ACLS, PALS and BCLS certification courses
• Provide staff education and support for conversion to “Sunrise” electronic medical record

Disaster medical assistance team – Department of Homeland Security

• Medical response in conjunction with DMAT – PA1 for disasters declared at the Federal level
• Provide medical care to those injured in Federal Disaster areas
• Successful completion of Federal background security and credentialing check

Credentials

RCIS — Cardiovascular Credentialing International — 1988

EMT-Paramedic — State of Pennsylvania — 1985

Advanced cardiac life support — Regional faculty — 1996

Responsible for oversight of Community Training Centers providing ACLS for the American Heart Association pediatric advanced life support — Regional faculty — 1998

Responsible for oversight of Community Training Centers providing PALS for the American Heart Association basic cardiac life support — Regional faculty — 1996

Responsible for oversight of Community Training Centers providing BCLS for the American Heart Association prehospital trauma life support — 1995

Instructor – National Association of EMTs

Publications and copyrights

• Cardiovascular Technologist Exam Review — Textbook – © 1998
• Critical Care for EMS — Textbook and materials for an 18 hour course approved by PA DOH © 1997

References available upon request

Publications on other sites

• Pacific Medical Training
• ACLS Training Center