Community Servants: Superman Or Spiderman

Do you realize there are community servants who are always waiting and prepared to come to a person’s rescue in minutes? You may infer this is the position for Superman or Spiderman. Superman is ready to leap tall buildings in a single bound and Spiderman is your friendly neighborhood hero. The community servants being spoken about is the friendly neighborhood hero ready to leap in to save lives in a single bound. The community servant is an emergency medical technician. Emergency medical technicians are a dynamic component to every community; whether rural, suburban, or in the city. Emergency medical technicians are the conduit between an emergency room physician and the patient providing emergency medical support until the patient is

Processes such as advanced airway management, vascular

Arnold 2 access and medication administration were just a few that could be carried out of the hospital setting. This conversation generated and enacted the emergency medical technician curriculum in the early 70’s adjacent pioneering work by Walt Stoy, PhD, Nancy Caroline, MD. Unknowingly there were other organizations already training personnel in advance procedures creating the first paramedics.

Expectation of advanced level care on the streets and in homes grew and ignited the TV show Emergency. This show depicted paramedics providing care in a progressive means not realized but now the world is watching weekly on television. This medical drama set a precedent for the public and served as a promoter for other to pursue careers in Emergency Medical Services. It has been established the goal of the emergency medical technician is to either provide treatment to those I need of urgent medical care. The goal of the emergency medical technician is to satisfactorily treat the presenting conditions, or arrange for timely removal of the patient to the next point of definitive care. Most of the time the destination will be a

In some developing regions, the term is not used, or may be used inaccurately, since the service in question does not provide treatment to the patients, but only the provision of transport to the point of care. There are three different types of Emergency Medicine Technicians. First there is the basic. You have to attend college or some type of training offered by a private