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Current Extraglottic Airway Devices and Prehospital Practices

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Emergency medical services (EMS) scope of practice is governed by the state, but national scope of practice guidelines are available for the four different EMS provider levels. Emergency Medical Services: Clinical Practice and Systems Oversight. 2018;320(8):769-778. Guyette FX, Wang HE. 3rd Edition.

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The Widely Varying Role of the Advanced EMT in Modern EMS

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And emergency medical service organizations are structured accordingly, right? There’s also the advanced EMT, an EMT with training in additional concepts and specific ALS skills such as starting IVs, administering a few carefully chosen medications, using advanced airways and other carefully selected skills.

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Unraveling Myths in Mobile Medicine, Part 2: My Interview with Judy Faulkner

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She and her circle of friends might be certain health challenges, and they would want their own wishes to be honored by emergency medical service personnel. Epic is the technological version of Shangri-Lah, Neverland or Valhalla for Mobile Medical professionals: they laud it, pine for it, yet often misunderstand or misuse it.

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Smarter Medicine, Smarter Tools: Preparing EMS for the Next Era of Patient Care

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Patients who use emergency medical services have greater severity of illness or injury compared to those who present to the emergency department via other means: A retrospective cohort study. Summary of NDA approvals & receipts, 1938 to the present. Retrieved March 24, 2025, from [link] 2. Peters, G. Goldberg, S.