The sickest patient of your career is coming. This program makes sure you’re ready.
If you practice as a “lone wolf” provider in a critical access ED, whether you’re a PA, NP, or primary care physician, you don’t get to hand the crashing patient to someone else. Critical Care Emergency Medicine is built for exactly that moment: six hours of live-recorded lectures that teach you to evaluate, resuscitate, and run the room with confidence.
Your instructor is John Bielinski, Jr. MS, PA-C, a U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran, former EMS provider, and international keynote lecturer with more than 20 years across emergency medicine, internal medicine, and critical care. John teaches the systems and the mindset, because surviving these shifts takes both.
What you’ll master:
- The EM mindset: end-point thinking, System 1 vs. System 2 decision-making, emotional intelligence under pressure, and documentation that keeps your chart unattractive to plaintiff attorneys
- Chest pain and the crashing heart: the five causes of chest pain, the HEART score, tachycardias and the ACLS algorithms, heart blocks, and lethal arrhythmias with pharmacology and defibrillation options
- Airway and breathing emergencies: the five causes of shortness of breath, pulmonary embolism, the difficult-to-bag and difficult-to-intubate patient, and oxygenation vs. ventilation failures
- The unstable patient: early recognition of hypotension, sepsis, anaphylaxis, toxic ingestions, and electrolyte emergencies
- Running the code: code blue and near-code leadership, asystole, and the resuscitation skills that save lives when you’re the one in charge
This activity is designated for 6 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. You get instant streaming access the moment you purchase, with an optional USB flash drive add-on (6 hours of video plus the full PDF presentation) if you want a physical copy. Gift card eligible: add an Amazon or Apple gift card to your order at checkout.
AAPA Credit Value
AAPA Credit Value:

Critical Care Emergency Medicine
This activity has been reviewed by the American Academy of Physician Associates Review Panel and is compliant with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 6 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid from 12/9/2025 to 12/8/2026. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation. AAPA reference number: CME-2014716.
What clinicians say
This is my second time using CME4Life to prepare for the PANRE. The materials and information have always been accurate and concise. As a PA for over a decade, I keep coming back.
John from CME4Life has such a unique teaching style — he makes complex concepts easy to understand, memorable, and actually engaging. Instead of just lecturing, he connects the dots.
The precision book and videos associated with this course were an immense help for me in preparing for and passing the PANCE. It was my third time taking it — and this time I passed.
✓ Passed the PANCE








