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[citation needed] Many CERT programs provide or encourage members to take additional first aid training. Some CERT members may also take training to become a certified first responder or emergency medical technician. [citation needed] Arlington Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) provided back-up support to the county's 911 system
CFR - Certified First Responder; CIC - Certified Instructor Coordinator; CLI - Certified Lab Instructor; C-NPT - Certified Neonatal & Pediatric Transport; CP-C - Certified Community Paramedic [8] CEP - Certified Emergency Paramedic; C-EM - Certified Event Medic [9] CEP-I - Continuing Education Program Instructor
An overview of ERHMS. Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance (ERHMS) is a health monitoring and surveillance framework developed by a consortium of federal agencies, state health departments, and volunteer responder groups designed to address existing gaps in surveillance and health monitoring of emergency responders. [1]
EMR training is intended to fill the gap between first aid and EMT. The American Red Cross conducts a course titled "emergency medical response" that fits this definition. In the US the term "emergency medical responder" has largely replaced the term "certified first responder" or "medical first responder" beginning in 2012.
Importantly, this training can be conducted by an EMT-Basic with some field experience—which is a resource available "in-house" for many volunteer fire departments who do not have the resources for full EMT training. The first responder training is intended to fill the gap between First Aid and Emergency Medical Technician.
Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) (Also Medical First Responder) Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) (formerly EMT - Basic) Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) (analogous to EMT-Intermediate/85) Paramedic (formerly EMT-Paramedic) [31]
A Community first responder (CFR), is a person available to be dispatched by an ambulance control centre to attend medical emergencies in their local area. They can be members of the public, who have received training in life-saving interventions such as defibrillation, off duty paramedics, nurses or medical doctors, or indeed professionals from a non-medical discipline who may be nearby or ...
The standard of training and actual procedures and requirements for OEC meet and exceed those of the first responder basic course and the curriculum contains many of the skills identified in the US Department of Transportation (DOT) 1994 EMT-Basic National Standard Curriculum, [2] although training is specific to needs in outdoor scenarios, such as self-reliance and individual skills.