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EMT with intravenous authorization (EMT- IV is not a separate certification level but an authorization by an agency physician medical director after verification of approved education and skills competency) [9] Advanced EMT (AEMT) EMT-Intermediate (EMT-I) Paramedic [10] [11] Paramedic with Critical Care endorsement (P-CC)
The United States EMS Compact, officially known as the Recognition of EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate CompAct (REPLICA), is an interstate compact designed to facilitate the day-to-day practice of emergency medical services personnel across state lines. The compact provides a framework for states to extend a "privilege to practice" for ...
EMRs also provide assistance to higher-level personnel at the scene of emergencies and during ambulance transport, if needed. Broadly used, a first responder is the first medically trained personnel who comes in contact with a patient. This could be a passerby, citizen volunteer, or emergency services personnel.
Until the professionalization of emergency medical services in the early 1970s, one of the most common providers of ambulance service in the United States was a community's local funeral home. [9] This occurred essentially by default, as hearses were the only vehicles at the time capable of transporting a person lying down.
Grady EMS staffs more than 350 personnel and maintains a fleet of more than 46 ALS ambulances. Grady EMS is a provider of pre-hospital care in the southeast handling approximately 140,000 requests annually for emergency services dispatched at the appropriate life-threatening response level as determined through Emergency Medical Dispatch.
A similar variation, generally used by units instead of dispatchers, is to "increase code" and "reduce code". For example, if multiple units are responding Code 3 to a call, but the units already at the scene have mostly resolved the situation, the scene units may request that the responding units "reduce code".
EMS utilizing MPDS As well as triaging emergency calls, MPDS also provides instructions for the dispatcher to give to the caller whilst assistance is en route. These post-dispatch and pre-arrival instructions are intended both to keep the caller and the patient safe, but also, where necessary, to turn the caller into the "first first responder ...
The Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency or GEMA/HS is the emergency management agency for the U.S. state of Georgia. Its function is similar to that of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in preparing for and responding to disasters, and mitigating potential hazards.