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  2. 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).

  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 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.

  5. Emergency medical responder - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Paramedicine - Wikipedia

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    While discussed for many years, the concept of paramedicine was first formally described in the EMS Agenda for the Future. [1] Paramedicine represents an expansion of the traditional notion of emergency medical services as simply an emergency response system. Paramedicine is the totality of the roles and responsibilities of individuals trained ...

  7. Emergency medical services in the United States - Wikipedia

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    National Highway Traffic Safety Agency, Office of Emergency Medical Services; The Difference Between an EMT and a Paramedic Archived 2008-09-30 at the Wayback Machine; How Pittsburgh's Freedom House Pioneered Paramedic Treatment; Safety Guidelines: Emergency Response and Recovery Workers, by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

  8. Paramedics in the United States - Wikipedia

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    One of the primary differences between emergency medical technicians and paramedics includes the breadth and number of medications paramedic ambulances typically carry. Due to the variation between each state EMS office it would be cumbersome and unrealistic to list each and every single medication paramedics carry across the United States. [43]

  9. Advanced emergency medical technician - Wikipedia

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    An advanced emergency medical technician (AEMT) is a provider of emergency medical services in the United States.A transition to this level of training from the emergency medical technician-intermediate, which have somewhat less training, [1] began in 2013 and has been implemented by most states [citation needed].