What is an EMT?
The primary focus of the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) is to provide basic emergency medical care and transportation for critical and emergent patients who access the emergency medical system. These individuals possess the basic knowledge and skills necessary to provide patient care and transportation. EMTs function as part of a comprehensive EMS response, under medical oversight. EMTs perform interventions with the basic equipment typically found on an ambulance. The EMT is a link from the scene of an emergency to the emergency medicine service (EMS) and/or the emergency health care system.
Emergency Medical Technicians fulfill a vital role in the emergency medical system. Often, EMTs are the first providers to arrive on-scene and initiate life-saving interventions to critically ill and injured patients. The EMT course will teach participants how to perform physical assessments, gather patient history information, obtain vital signs and provide emergency care for an array of injuries and illnesses, including: cardiac, respiratory, endocrine, immunologic, environmental, musculoskeletal, soft tissue, spinal, neurological, and obstetric emergencies.
Emergency Medical Technicians fulfill a vital role in the emergency medical system. Often, EMTs are the first providers to arrive on-scene and initiate life-saving interventions to critically ill and injured patients. The EMT course will teach participants how to perform physical assessments, gather patient history information, obtain vital signs and provide emergency care for an array of injuries and illnesses, including: cardiac, respiratory, endocrine, immunologic, environmental, musculoskeletal, soft tissue, spinal, neurological, and obstetric emergencies.
