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2. Emergency medical technician - Wikipedia

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   An emergency medical technician (often, more simply, EMT) is a medical professional that provides emergency medical services. [1] [2] EMTs are most commonly found serving on ambulances and in fire departments in the US and Canada, as full-time and some part-time departments require their firefighters to at least be EMT certified.

3. Emergency medical responder levels by U.S. state - Wikipedia

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   Any provider between the levels of Emergency medical technician and Paramedic is either a form of EMT-Intermediate or an Advanced EMT. The use of the terms "EMT-Intermediate/85" and "EMT-Intermediate/99" denotes use of the NHTSA EMT-Intermediate 1985 curriculum and the EMT-Intermediate 1999 curriculum respectively.

4. Emergency medical services in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Paramedic (see Paramedics in the United States): Paramedic is specialist health care provider, autonomous practitioner , providing advanced assessment and management skills, various invasive skills, and extensive pharmacology interventions, Paramedic is the highest level in EMS and its extension to the emergency physician . [45]

5. Emergency medical services - Wikipedia

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   Is usually made up of 3 levels in the US. EMT-B, EMT-I (EMT-A in some states) and EMT-Paramedic. The National Registry of EMT New Educational Standards for EMS renamed the provider levels as follows: Emergency Medical Responder (EMR), Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-B), Advanced EMT (AEMT), and Paramedic (EMT-P).

6. Advanced emergency medical technician - Wikipedia

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   The EMT-I/99 level was the closest level of certification to paramedic, and allowed many techniques not available to the EMT-I/85 or EMT-basic. These techniques included needle decompression of a tension pneumothorax , endotracheal intubation, nasogastric tube placement, use of cardiac event monitors / ECGs , and administering medication to ...

7. 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 ...

8. Paramedics share their most absurd 911 calls - AOL

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   The life of a paramedic or EMT can be pretty unpredictable; they never know what their next call is going to be. SEE ALSO: One state you can get arrested for saving a dog's life As a result, these ...

9. Emergency medical responder - Wikipedia

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   Therefore, in most all rescue environments, whether it is an EMS or fire department that runs the rescue, the actual rescuers who cut the vehicle and run the extrication scene or perform any rescue such as rope rescues or swift water rescue, etc., are emergency medical responders, emergency medical technicians, or paramedics, as most every ...