What are the different levels of EMT in Ohio and what do they do?
The state of Ohio recognizes the three levels of EMTs. EMT-Bs can assess patients, provide oxygen, splint broken bones, control bleeding, intubate the airway, assist with patients taking some of their own medications, and take cervical spine precautions. EMT-Is can perform all of the above and can also start IVs, IOs, and give subcutaneous injections of Epinephrine. EMT-Ps can do all of the above and administer many other medications, monitor patients’ heart rhythms, defibrillate and pace patients’ hearts, decompress a collapsed lung, and in an emergency cut into a patient’s neck to provide an airway.
