Emergency Medical Technicians

This would also include first responders such as emergency medical technicians, emergency room nurses, doctors, technicians, firefighters, police officers, clinicians, laboratorians, health department personnels, epidemiologists, as well as researchers and related professionals. 

The response to chemical and biological warfare weapons, terrorism attacks, and even influenza mini-epidemics can require an immense number of federal/state/ county/city/private workers and medical personnel ranging from physicians to registered nurses to emergency medical technicians and paramedics. As an example, the writer has actually seen an incident where thirty-one agencies from all levels of... 

Certain individuals are especially likely to experience, or to have already experienced, a traumatic event. Trauma exposure is more likely among military personnel or those working in emergency services, for example, police officers, firefighters, or emergency medical technicians. In addition, those who have recently emigrated from war zones or regions of civil unrest are likely to have been exposed to a traumatic event. 

Departments often have residency requirements stating that you must live in the city or county in which you apply. Experience as a volunteer firefighter or an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) or paramedic is always a plus and is sometimes a requirement for employment, either at the time you apply and test for the job or to be satisfied before you begin active duty. Affirmative Action or other hiring requirements may also factor into the selection process. 

Emergency Medical Technician University Ambulance Service Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania... 

Tens of thousands of tonnes of different chemical substances are manufactured, used, transported, stored, and disposed of in different countries around the world. The number of accidents, health hazards, and chemical disasters has been increasing. Although most of these accidents occur at fixed facilities where the chemical hazards are known, emergency medical personnel are increasingly more likely to be involved in incidents in which occupational workers and victims have been exposed to an unknown or incorrectly identified chemical hazard. Emergency medical technicians, therefore, must learn to deal with presenting symptoms and provide basic supportive medical care for complications (respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological) that are most likely to cause a serious threat to life and end in human fatalities. 

Ko, P. C., Chen, W, Ma, M. H., Chiang, W, Su, C., Huang, C., et al. (2004). Emergency medical services utilization during an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the incidence of SARS-associated coronavirus infection among emergency medical technicians. Academic Emergency Medicine, 11, 903-911. 

Schmidt, T. A., Atcheson, R., Rederiuk, C., Mann, N. C., Finney, T., Ruiier, D., et ai. (2001). Hospital follow-up of patients categorized as not needing an ambulance using a set of emergency medical technician protocols. Prehospital Emergency Care, 5, 366-370. 

Contact the local Emergency Medical Technician unit to see what emergency response training is available in your community or area. 

Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) and Paramedics (EMT-Ps) - Trained emergency medical respondents (both paramedics and EMTs are trained to diagnose and treat most common medical emergencies in the field and to provide medical treatment while en route to the hospital paramedics are more highly trained than EMTs). 

It is important to know as precisely as possible the time of symptom onset and the characteristics of the initial symptoms. The patient may not be able to provide an accurate history due to their neurologic deficits therefore, phone interviews with emergency medical technicians, family members, or other eyewimesses before, or at the time of, the patient s arrival can be invaluable. 

For human consumption, hospitals and emergency medical technicians use oxygen in life-support situations, and commercial aircraft carry oxygen supplies in the event of an emergency at high altitudes. Enhanced-oxygen air is sold in oxygen bars (see sidebar), but the benefits are dubious. 

For purposes of this report, we differentiate four levels of medical intervention, primarily on the basis of proximity to the precipitating event or initial victims. Response to a distinct, immediately recognizable terrorist incident (as opposed to a covert release of an agent whose effects would not be apparent for hours or days) would, in most instances, be initiated by law enforcement or fire and rescue personnel, followed at some point by a hazardous materials (Hazmat) team and emergency medical technicians. This is the group referred to in Table 1-1 as "Local Responders." In the same table, "Initial Treatment Facilities" refers to the fixed-site medical facilities to which victims might initially be transported (or transport themselves) or that might initially be called upon for assistance by victims or personnel on the scene. Under "State" in the table, we... 

Terrorism. 2. Bioterrorism. 3. Emergency medical technicians. 4. Disaster medicine. 5. Civil defense-United States. I. Campbell, John (John E.)... 

Advanced life support—Medical procedures performed by emergency medical technicians— paramedics that include the advanced diagnosis and protocol-driven treatment of a patient in the field. 

EMT Emergency medical technician NTP National Toxicology Program... 

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