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Most states use or require NREMT testing for some level of state certification. [2] [7] [8] NREMT recognizes four levels of EMS: EMR, EMT, Advanced EMT, and Paramedic (some states may have additional certifications). [7] NREMT certification at an EMT Intermediate level may or may not be sufficient for some state EMT-I requirements. [9]
In the state of Massachusetts a paramedic may administer the anti-convulsant, midazolam, up to a maximum of 6 mg . [33] While in Maine paramedics are allowed to administer midazolam in upwards of 10 mg boluses. [34] These pre-approved procedures are known as standing orders. Standing orders cannot surpass a provider's scope of practice. Scopes ...
The Denver Health Paramedic Division has a fleet of 36 ambulances (34 ALS) (2 Critical Care Transport). At peak times it has 24 advanced life support ambulances available, most staffed by two paramedics. [5] Denver Paramedics respond to an average of 130,000 calls for service a year, an average of 355 calls a day.
The first civilian hospital-based medical helicopter program in the U.S., Flight For Life Colorado, began in 1972 with a single Alouette III helicopter, based at St. Anthony Central Hospital in Denver, Colorado. [26] National EMS standards for the US are determined by the U.S. Department of Transportation and modified by each state's Department ...
A Colorado firefighter paramedic has been sentenced to five years in prison over his role in the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain.. The sentence, handed down on Friday to Peter Cichunic ...
Anthony Sleets was handcuffed when a paramedic injected him with ketamine, after a state law took effect banning doing so “absent a justifiable medical emergency.” Sleets was never charged ...
LONGMONT, Colorado (Reuters) -A Colorado judge on Friday sentenced a paramedic convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain to 14 months in a work-release program and four years of probation.
In most jurisdictions, the EMT-I operates under the same protocols as a paramedic. There are a few procedures that only EMT-intermediates cannot perform, including rapid sequence intubation, surgical cricothyrotomy, and needle cricothyrotomy. In 2020, Virginia began phasing out the EMT-I. Existing EMT-intermediates may continue to practice and ...