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2. Paramedics in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Paramedics function as part of a comprehensive EMS response under physician medical direction. Paramedics often serve in a prehospital role, responding to Public safety answering point calls in an ambulance. The paramedic serves as the initial entry point into the health care system. A standard requirement for state licensure involves ...

3. Paramedic - Wikipedia

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   A paramedic is a healthcare professional trained in the medical model, whose main role has historically been to respond to emergency calls for medical help outside of a hospital. Paramedics work as part of the emergency medical services (EMS), most often in ambulances. They also have roles in emergency medicine, primary care, transfer medicine ...

4. Emergency medical responder - Wikipedia

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   EMTs are the next level of providers. Within the United States, there are three common levels of EMS personnel, each with an increased scope of practice: EMT, advanced EMT, paramedic, and critical care paramedic. Critical care paramedics have the most training of these levels. Paramedics and critical care paramedics perform advanced life ...

5. Paraprofessional - Wikipedia

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   With a lack of qualified physicians to practice in the field, paramedics themselves became responsible for emergency medical services in the pre-hospital setting. Paramedics, although now distinct provider, continue to rely on the research of emergency medicine which informs and contributes to their own unique practice.

6. Emergency medical services - Wikipedia

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   Certified first responders may be sent to provide first aid, sometimes to an advanced level. Their duties include the provision of immediate life-saving care in the event of a medical emergency; commonly advanced first aid, oxygen administration, cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and automated external defibrillator (AED) usage.

7. Exeter Hospital to end paramedic intercept service: Here's ...

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   EXETER — Exeter Hospital announced Tuesday it will discontinue its advanced life support paramedic intercept service as of Sept. 20, citing financial challenges and other factors.

8. Emergency Care Practitioner - Wikipedia

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   Administration and supply of a wide range of medications for conditions encountered in the urgent and emergency care setting. Some ECP's can independently prescribe, allowing for greater autonomy. Suturing , Steri-Strips (adhesive skin closure strips), and tissue adhesive wound closure (gluing of wounds) [ 8 ] [ 9 ]

9. Paramedic choked 63-year-old to death, laughed as hospital ...

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   A paramedic tackled a “clearly confused and panicked” 63-year-old man and choked him for nearly two minutes as a police officer handcuffed him, according to a new federal lawsuit filed over ...