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An EMS provider's post-nominal (listed after the name) credentials usually follow his or her name in this order: . Highest earned academic degree in or related to medicine, (e.g. "MD")
The National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) is a US based, non-profit certification organization for pre-hospital emergency medical providers that exists to ensure that every Emergency Medical Technician has the knowledge and skills required for competent practice.
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.
Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) Emergency Medical Technician Intermediate (EMT-I) **(Alabama is no longer certifying new EMT-Is (as of 2003). However, existing providers continue to be allowed to practice under this level of certification.) Paramedic
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
This article is a list of mnemonics and acronyms related to first responders including community first responders, emergency departments, and other first responders with either low level or no qualifications in the relevant field. This list includes the definition of each item in the mnemonic or acronym.
Its functions include preparedness planning and response; building federal emergency medical operational capabilities; countermeasures research, advance development, and procurement; and grants to strengthen the capabilities of hospitals and health care systems in public health emergencies and medical disasters.
List of initialisms, acronyms ("words made from parts of other words, pronounceable"), and other abbreviations used by the government and the military of the United States. Note that this list is intended to be specific to the United States government and military—other nations will have their own acronyms.