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Paramedic IC - Paramedic Instructor Coordinator; EMT-AD - Emergency Medical Technician - Automatic Defibrillator [citation needed] EMT-CC - Emergency Medical Technician - Critical Care [citation needed] EMT-CT - Emergency Medical Technician - Cardiac Tech [citation needed] EMT-M - Emergency Medical Technician - MAST (Military Anti-Shock Trousers)
In the United States there are no federal rules or regulations for the scope of practice for any level of EMS provider, though there is a noncompulsive scope of practice model. In the field, paramedics follow a set of pre-approved procedures and interventions for particular scenarios, which may be known as protocols or guidelines.
In the United States, paramedicine is the physician-directed practice of medicine, often viewed as the intersection of health care, public health, and public safety.While discussed for many years, the concept of paramedicine was first formally described in the EMS Agenda for the Future. [1]
A critical care paramedic, also known as an advanced practice paramedic or specialist paramedic, is a paramedic with additional training to deal with critically ill patients. [69] [70] [71] Critical care paramedics often work on air ambulances, which are more likely to be dispatched to emergencies requiring advanced care skills.
This gives a paramedic the ability to practice within limited scope of practice in law, along with state DOH guidelines and medical control oversight. The authority to practice in this manner is granted in the form of standing orders (off-line medical control) and direct physician consultation via phone or radio (on-line medical control). Under ...
EMT-Intermediate (state specific, phased out by Sept. 30 2013 however any EMT with this certification before Sept. 30 2013 could still be an intermediate and by the next recert cycle had to switch to AEMT) [56] EMT-Intermediate Advanced (analogous to EMT-Intermediate/99, phased out by Sept. 30, 2013 ) [56]
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.
Medical slang is the use of acronyms and informal terminology to describe patients, other healthcare personnel and medical concepts. Some terms are pejorative. In English, medical slang has entered popular culture via television hospital and forensic science dramas such as ER, House M.D., NCIS, Scrubs, and Grey's Anatomy, and through fiction, in books such as The House of God by Samuel Shem ...