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International Prehospital Medicine Institute Literature Review, July 2025

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This suburban, combined ALS and BLS EMS system responds to greater than 120,000 combined requests for service a year. Individual agencies are dispatched via a common communications center using commercially available Emergency Medical Dispatch software. Lift assist” is not used as a dispatch code or reason.

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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? That is a choice made by our medical directors.” In the EMD (emergency medical dispatch) world, they often count as BLS.” It’s pretty simple, right? If an agency chooses not to have any AEMTs that is the agency’s choice.