Whats the difference between an EMT, Intermediate, and Paramedic?
Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT’s) are trained in patient assessment and teatment at a basic level. An EMT may administer Oxygen, use an Automatic External Defrillator (AED), stablize a potental spinal injury patient on a backboard, splint fractures and bandage wounds, do definitive airway interventions, Intubation, Monitor vital signs, and perform on-going assassment of patients condition An EMT-Intermediate attends more training, and can do all the skills of an EMT, but can also initiate Intra-venous (IV) lines for fluid resuscitation. Intermediates can also perform a even more advanced airway methods than a EMT Paramedics attend approximately two more years of training, and are capable of many additional skills. A Paramedic may also analyze, interpret, and treat various heart rhythms, give appropriate medications with pre-arranged “standing orders,” treat critical trauma patients with advanced maneuvers such as chest decompression for a collapsed lung, establish advanced IV lines
Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT’s) are trained in patient assessment and treatment at a basic level. An EMT may administer Oxygen, use an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED), stabilize a potential spinal injury patients on a backboard, splint fractures and bandage wounds, do definitive airway interventions, Intubation, Monitor vital signs, and perform on-going assessment of a patient’s condition An EMT-Intermediate attends more training, and can do all the skills of an EMT, but can also initiate Intra-venous (IV) lines for fluid resuscitation. Intermediates can also perform even more advanced airway methods than an EMT Paramedics attend approximately 1 ½ years of training, and are capable of many additional skills. A Paramedic may perform the same interventions as the EMT-B, and EMT-I and also analyze, interpret, and treat various heart rhythms, give appropriate medications with pre-arranged (standing orders), treat critical trauma patients with advanced maneuvers such as chest d
