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EMT-Intermediate/85 (no new licenses granted) Cardiac Technician (no new licenses granted since 1998, similar to the NREMT-I/99) Advanced-EMT; Paramedic (at least 504 classroom hours plus 320 clinical hours) [15]
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.
This category is for emergency services in Orange County, California such as fire protection, emergency medical services, law enforcement, ambulance services and hospitals. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Some agencies separate the 'driver' and 'attendant' functions, employing ambulance driving staff with no medical qualification (or just a first aid and CPR certificates), whose job is to drive ambulances. While this approach persists in some countries, such as India, it is generally becoming increasingly rare.
Texas has a five-tier system, consisting of emergency care attendant, EMT-basic, advanced EMT, EMT-paramedic, and paramedic. [16] In Virginia, the first level of ALS is advanced EMT. The AEMT certification replaced the EMT-enhanced, unique to Virginia, starting in 2013 and fully replaced in the EMT-E certification in 2016.
Ambulance services operating on a private/for profit basis have a long history in the U.S. Often, particularly in smaller communities, ambulance service was seen by the community as a lower priority than police or fire services, and certainly nothing that should require public funding.
Ambulance responses in the UK are as follows. Some ambulance services allow driver discretion for Category 3/4 calls; this may be dependent on the type of call or how long it has been waiting for a response for. 999 calls to the ambulance service are triaged using either the NHS Pathways system or the Medical Priority Dispatch System.
The earliest ambulances were usually accompanied by a physician on emergency call. [2] However, by the 1960s, ambulance services, while becoming ubiquitous, were poorly supported and staffed and unevenly trained. 50% of the ambulance services were provided by morticians, primarily because their hearses were able to accommodate patients on litters. [2]