Paramedic vs outdoor emergency care technician

Differences between paramedic and outdoor emergency care technician duties and responsibilities

Paramedic example responsibilities.

• Manage critically ill/injure patients effectively with rapid assessments, aggressive resuscitation, packaging and transport to appropriate definitive care emergency departments.
• Attend safety training seminars yearly as well as Haz-Mat safety, SCBA training and OSHA regulation training.
• Perform Phlebotomy and specimen collection duties.
• Administer emergency medical treatment to patients including CPR, medications/drugs.
• Provide inter-facility transport to patients who require EKG monitoring, medication infusion and/or ventilator support during transport.
• Provide medical care for critically ill or injure patients during inter-facility transports to higher level of care facilities.
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Outdoor emergency care technician example responsibilities.

• Perform CPR and EKG'S.
• Perform high-quality CPR during cardiac arrest, provide postmortem care when need.
• Maintain proper documentation for both incoming and hospitalize patients.
• Initiate admitting procedures for all patients needing admission to hospital.
• Obtain certifications in splinting, phlebotomy, sterile catheterization and EKG interpretation.
• Advance nursing assistant with responsibilities including intravenous line placement/phlebotomy, EKG interpretation, etc.
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