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International Prehospital Medicine Institute Literature Review, July 2025

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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. This suburban, combined ALS and BLS EMS system responds to greater than 120,000 combined requests for service a year.

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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? Enter the Advanced EMT Actually, it’s more complicated. Once historically known as “an EMT-Intermediate,” their level of training is in between EMT and paramedic. It’s pretty simple, right?