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Welcome to our page dedicated to those men and women who are there when a neighbor is in need of thier help!.
Thier reward for this: The feeling they get from helping a neighbor in need.
Every now and then a Thank You from the person they helped or the persons family.
EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS & MEDICAL RESPONSE TECHNICIANS!
These special people go through alot of training to do this job. There are hours of classroom study, drills & practicals. The classrom time when I took my EMT was 2 mights a week from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.. And some Saturday classes for things like Hazerdous Materials Awarness Class, and for extracation drills. Practicals are where we are tested to see if we know what to do. You are given a "patient", and you must ask questions of your patient or their relatives to try and determine what has happened. Then do what is expected of you to help this patient. You must keep up to date on training in order to keep your EMT current. There are CPR classes once a year, defibulator classes, training sessions at the hospital with your med control provider. We must be tested for TB and take TB classes once a year. As well as other bloodbourne pathogens classes are mandatory every year. These are mandatory by order of OSHA! If there are any changes in the EMS system in your state there are even more classes to take. You take a class to recert your ticket every 2 years. You must take a state exam at the end of this class, a practical, and you must pass it! After your second recert you take your recert every 3 years. Every state has it's own rules governing ems, but most are the same. There is also a nation wide course you can take, and then only pass the state exam, to get "your ticket" in that state. We are constantly learning from every situation, and the only thing you can be sure of is "Theres nothing to be sure of"! No matter what the call is, there are almost always surprises waiting for you. On some calls we are instructed to await police arrival before entering the scene. OUR safety comes FIRST. We are NO use to the patient if we are injured responding to the call. And we only become another patient if we are injured. You never know what you may find at a call. The call could come in as a sick person or unknown, and you get yourself in the middle of an assault, or a domestic disturbance. Sometimes people want to help by calling 911, but don't want to be involved, so they may just say someone is hurt. We never know what we could be facing when we arrive on scene. ALWAYS be aware of your surroundings! The most important thing we are taught in class is "SCENE SAFETY".
I was a Medical Response Tech for a little over a year, before taking my Emergency Medical Tech course. Once I had finished the months of that class I jumped right into my Defib class, once finished I was an EMT-D. I was with the Volunteer Ambulance in my town for 5 years. Please check out the links page also.

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WHAT TO DO IN AN EMERGENCY

1. Protect Yourself
2. Call a bystander for help.
3. Get as much information as possible.
4. Call 911.
5. The dispatcher may be able to help you with patient care.
6. Don't move patient unless there is clearly danger.
7. Give First Aid.
8. Follow dispatchers directions
9. Guide Resucers into scene, or have someone else do this.

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