Basic EMT Certifications for Non Fire personell

Class 0012010

Roster: TAC Officer Lt. J. Bridwell, Paramedic Sit in Z. Ridgeback

Information:
This is a three part class, will cover treatment, returning to hospital/turning over to ambulance, and when to respond/your boundaries

The EMT-Basic represents the first response of the emergency medical system. An EMT trained at this level is prepared to care for patients at the scene of an accident and while transporting patients by ambulance to the hospital under the direction of more highly trained medical personnel or COPA. The EMT-Basic has the emergency skills to assess a patient's condition and manage respiratory, cardiac, and trauma emergencies.

An ERT EMT will administer non-restricted medications orally. He will perform and interpret electrocardiograms (EKG). An ERT EMT is trained to maintain appropriate breathing levels. He also sometimes performs endotracheal intubations. The EMT will work with medical equipment such as AEDs, and will provide CPR, shock prevention, severe bleeding control, and immobilization of the body. Restricted drugs include all those administered by needles (with exception of auto-injectors)

Does anyone have any questions about treatment?

Unless I get people posting here, I will not continue on, because I will not be able to assume we've moved on, and people are fine with this topic...

Do we have defibrillators that can be used for narrow QRS tachycardia?

no questions so far.

Z. Ridgeback wrote:Do we have defibrillators that can be used for narrow QRS tachycardia?

Sorry for butting in here, just found the question rather intriguing.

If we are using AEDs (Automated external defibrillators), then no. Those are usually limited to pulseless Ventricular tachycardia and Ventricular fibrillation. From what I understand they don't shock Supraventricular tachycardia.

They do not shock supraventricular tachycardia you are correct. I just went through my EMT Basic class in real life and we covered this.

Ah, thanks for clearing that up! I believe SVT in itself isn't dangerous, just painful. Can SVT deteriorate to VT or V-FIB? I've read that AT (atrial fibrilation) can deteriorate to A-FIB.

Continue the work here guys. Micheal, are you actually in the field of emergency medical treatment. Sounds like you are very informed about it....

No, I'm a teacher student IRL. But I do quite a bit of research on field emergency treatment, with special focus on procedures that are normally performed in the E, but an emergency physician can perform in the field. The London Air Ambulance for example regularly perform chest surgery (thoracotomy) on arrested (heart has stopped beating, not people who are under arrest ) patients with penetrating trauma to the chest. Crazy thing his, they cite an 18% success rate on these road site thoracotomies!

I'll be offering a training session for those who are interested in switching departments to become a dedicated paramedic (check with DC first) upon request in this office