JEMS

JULY 7, 2025

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. Of the groups with positive findings, Sp02 increased on average from 89.6%

E-9-1-1

JEMS

JULY 3, 2025

According to the 2024 Michigan Healthcare Workforce Index, a staggering 10-year shortage of paramedics between 2023 and 2033 will rise to 1,160 paramedics and 621 emergency medical technicians (EMTs). Journal of Emergency Medicine, 50(4), 589-594. Human Resource Development Review , 18 (2), 228–247. Abelsson et al.,

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JEMS

JUNE 11, 2025

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.

AEMT

Peter Canning

AUGUST 24, 2024

Connecticut recently added supraglottic airways to the BLS scope of practice. That means basic EMTs (emergency medical technicians with considerably less training than paramedics) with the approval of their sponsor hospital medical director, no longer have to rely on bag-valve-mask ventilation to breathe for patients in cardiac arrest.

BLS

ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In 2015, it introduced Basic Life Support (BLS) training and certification for EMS personnel. After three years of curriculum development and testing, the Red Cross launched a package of courses that includes BLS, ALS, and PALS training with certification in 2019. All three leverage the latest educational methodologies.

Life Support

Irish College of Paramedics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Whilst we respect the opinion of other professions we feel it is important to provide an Irish perspective on behalf of members of the Irish College of Paramedics - Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) Paramedics, and Advanced Paramedics (APs). 2014), BLS (Sanghavi et al. 2000, Stiell et al. 2004, Jayaraman et al.

Emergency Medical Technician

NCOAE

AUGUST 12, 2022

Here, we present them in alphabetical order: ABC – Airway, Breathing and Circulation – “This is the Golden Rule of emergency medical professionals” AED – Automated External Defibrillator – The device that delivers electric shock to the heart of patients experiencing sudden cardiac arrest A-EMT – Advanced EMT ALS – Advanced Life Support Anaphylaxis— (..)

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