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The Widely Varying Role of the Advanced EMT in Modern EMS

JEMS

Enter the Advanced EMT Actually, it’s more complicated. He has 33 years of EMS experience, beginning in the early 1990s, having been certified at various times as a an EMT, an EMT-I, a critical care technician and a paramedic. This was called Critical Care Technician. It’s pretty simple, right? Reference 1.

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Calcium in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

NAEMSP

Calcium is also frequently used in the treatment of hyperkalemia, calcium channel blocker overdose, hypermagnesemia, and hypocalcemia and may be more likely to be used when one of these diagnoses is the suspected cause of cardiac arrest. This continues to be supported by new literature. References: 1. Ramazan, K., S., & Basar, C.