EMT and Paramedics

For the written it is 70%.

For the practicals see the related link below.

AM-bu-lance...or, if it is coming towards you: ec-na-LUB-ma.

Paramedics are the senior ambulance service healthcare professionals at an accident or a medical emergency. Working on their own or with an emergency care assistant or ambulance technician, they assess the patient's condition and then give essential treatment. They use high-tech equipment, such as defibrillators (which restore the heart's rhythm), spinal and traction splints and intravenous drips, and as well as administering oxygen and drugs.

First you must get your EMT, which can be done at a community college, and takes about a year. Then you can apply for a medic program, taking another 1-1 1/2 year, when completed you will have your paramedic.

The working conditions of a parameidc are, nursing homes etc. 12 hour shifts both nights and days, during all weather conditions, and during times of emergency I will be expected to be at work. So Really anytime, anywhere. I WORK 24 HOUR SHIFTS, WHICH MEANS I CAN POSSIBLY BE RUNNING CALLS FOR THE ENTIRE 24 HOURS. IF A MAJOR INCIDENT OCCURS, I MAY BE HELD ON DUTY INDEFINITELY. I MAY HAVE TO HIKE A COUPLE OF MILES UP A TRAIL TO RESCUE SOMEONE IN 90 DEGREE HEAT, OR A BLIZZARD. I HAVE BEEN SHOT AT, BEATEN, & THREATENED WITH A KNIFE. I HAVE HAD TO JUMP INTO WATER, FULLY CLOTHED, TO RESCUE A KID. I HAVE BEEN ON DUTY AND RESPONDED TO ACCIDENTS OR MEDICAL EMERGENCIES INVOLVING FRIENDS AND FAMILY. I HAVE WAITED OUTSIDE A SCHOOL THAT HAD SOMEONE INSIDE SHOOTING KIDS. I HAVE DELIVERED BABIES, AND HELD THE HANDS OF DYING ELDERLY FOLKS, AND CRIED WITH THEIR FAMILY. BUT THE SHORT ANSWER IS: LONG, BORING HOURS OF WAITING FOR A CALL, PUNCTUATED BY MOMENTS OF TERROR AND EXHILARATION. IT'S BEEN A GREAT CAREER.

It could mean several things, a few I know are: You have to pay extra to be transported with lights and siren's. If it is not a life threatening emergency they tend to not put on the lights. However they also do not put on the lights for someone who has passed away.

Paramedics are usually classed as those persons trained to give emergency medical care to people who are seriously ill with the aim of stabilizing them before they are taken to hospital. May medically trained nurses have made the successful transfer across. there are specific training courses for these are the course are different in their delivery and frequency (but have the same content) in each Health authority area

If it is an emergency, yes. What choice would he have?

This depends on the type of ambulance and the area it is operating in. Ambulances are either basic life support (BLS) or advanced life support (ALS). BLS trucks have EMT-basics instead of paramedics. ALS trucks legally must have one paramedic on board, and either an emt-basic in a rural setting, or a second paramedic in a metropolitan area. However, it is all up to the agency staffing the ambulance.

The Red Cross's Disaster Relief responds to approximately 70,000 disasters in the U.S., which range from natural and, man-made disasters. Disaster Relief provides food, shelter and, emotional health services to assist individuals and families. The Red Cross also feeds the emergency workers and the volunteers that help meeting their goal to meet people's immediate emergency needs.The Red Cross has many ways to get involved, Volunteers are vital to the Red Cross to help them aid people where disaster has struck. Red Cross has many different branches to it as well.

saving of life, in conjunction with the other emergency services

The price of an ambulance varies greatly depending on the features that one would like to include in their ambulance. A basic life support ambulance can cost upwards of around $60,000. An advanced life support ambulance can cost upwards of about $80,000. A paramedic ambulance can cost upwards of about $100,000. (These prices, of course, do calculate in some costs of equipping the ambulance as well.)

Just google it.

They are painted backwards. They are this way so people can read it in their car mirror.

There were approximately 230,000 working in the field in 2010, with an estimated increase of 70,000 in the next decade. In terms of how many are actually registered (or licensed), the numbers are hard to come by. In 2003, there were close to 670,000 registered EMTs, but obviously they were not all working in the field.

there is very little math as an EMT. Basic adding and subtracting until you get into medicine doses or counting bodies. I have never needed a calculator in 4 years.

they typically make about 27,000 a year or they can make $60,000

I have seen EMTs who were around 6 foot and close to 300 pounds.

The Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem was founded after the first Crusade captured Jerusalem in 1099.

The Order consisted of a group of Knights, men from noble European families who took vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and care of the sick. In Jerusalem, the Order established a hospital to care for sick pilgrims who had travelled to the Holy Land. Later it took on a military role, and took control of Crusader castles. The Order's hospitals treated the sick and wounded without distinction of race, colour or creed.

If the dogs are vicious they can call police or animal control.

Mobile hospital beds are called gurneys, or carts. These are standard in all hospitals.

It depends. You can work an 8 hour shift, either morning, evening or night. You can work 12 hour shifts from 8 am to 8 pm, or 8 pm to 8 am. Or you could do what I did and go to work on a Tuesday and get off the Thursday the following week. It varies on whether you work for a private service or a county job. Many of the medics I worked with worked whatever they could, and many of these shifts were "as needed" meaning only 8 hours a week to 120 hours a week.

Ambulance service is just that; a service. Usually a private company, providing a service (showing up and quickly getting you to a hospital when you call 911). They don't get paid by the hospital or the "ambulance fairy", so generally when you are transported by ambulance, you get a bill from them as you would any other business. Many times insurance covers the cost, and if someone has no insurance, you get a bill for the cost of the driver, the medical staff, insurance etc... the costs of emergency transportation. Think of it as a "super-qualifed medical taxi".

you put your foot on the gas petal slightly more than you would when your driving a car or truck then you put your lights on and go to the area you need.

Depends on the type of chassis used/ modification of back? Depends on the type of chassis used/ modification of back?