What are the daily activities of an EMT?

Answer 1

Depending on your department, whether you are paid or volunteer and how many hours you are going to be at your department will determine what you will be doing on that day. Most EMT's have to do a truck check at the beginning of their shift. You will check to make sure the interior of your truck is stocked and clean. You will make sure all your emergency lights are in operation. You will make sure all the fluids in the engine are within the normal range. (Having something fail while on a 911 call is the worst thing.) You may have department duties depending on if you work for a fire department or a hospital. At a fire department, you may be asked to do house keeping duties, go over charts for quality assurance, assist in the training of new individuals. On other days, you may be asked to participate in special events (such as a local parade, providing EMT service for an event in your area.) And the biggest part of your day will be responding to 911 calls. Ambulances get called for everything from vehicle accidents to structure fires (firemen need rehab and trained people on site during their work), as well as regular patient emergencies.

Answer 2

1. How Does an EMT Spend a Typical Workday?
2. An EMT's workday may start at any time of the day or night, and often goes for a full 24 hours before the shift is over. As a result EMT's typically work an average of 50 hours a week, three or four days out of each week. This is because they must be ready to answer a call from Emergency Services dispatchers who will tell them where to go and who is in need of aid. Once at the scene, an EMT identifies the person in need of aid, taking note of the symptoms. If the person is in need of treatment beyond what the EMT can render, the EMT will attempt to stabilize the person's condition by means of intravenous fluids, drugs, bandages and tourniquets to bleeding limbs. The patient is then loaded in a stretcher into the back of the ambulance. One EMT drives while the other stays in the back to monitor the patients vital signs. Once at the hospital, they unload the patient, bringing him into the emergency room and informing the doctors and nurses on staff of what's wrong with the patient as well as what treatments and drugs have already been administered. Once the patient is out of the EMT's hands, they wait for another call from the dispatcher to repeat the cycle.

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Answer 3

Assessing the condition of patients who are injured or taken ill suddenly, driving and crewing an ambulance, responding to an endless amount of calls for medical assistance at accidents and many many more .

Answer 4

Im not an EMT yet but I'm currently enrolled in the EMT class. So I'd say driving the ambulance, lifting people/heavy objects, daily inventory, hospital transfers, paperwork, hooking up patients to O2, patient interviews, and that's pretty much it for daily stuff. Cardiac emergencies would probably be the most common emergencies. At least that's what I've gathered from speaking to EMTS around here. Theres a lot more types of incidences but they wouldn't really be daily occurrences.

Answer 5

Peramedics do different things daily depending on the different calls that they get. Their duties may range from assisting women with childbirth, to performing CPR on person who is not breathing. They also provide medical care to an automobile accident victims, assist with bad astma attacks, and help victims of shootings. Their daily duites vary greatly.

Answer 6

CPR Giver, Trainer, Answering 911 Calls, Ambulance Driver...

Answer 7

cleaning and maintaining and cleaning the gear, responding to emergency calls, public speeches, patient transfer ( from one hospital to another.)

Answer 8

to assist those with medical nedds