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Recerts and New Protocols

Peter Canning

AEMTs may administer epinephrine IV in cardiac arrest.* Sodium bicarbonate should only be administered in cardiac arrest for suspected sodium channel blocker overdoses. Passive oxygenation (via nonrebreather) and continuous cardiac compressions should no longer be used for cardiac arrest in absence of an advanced airway.

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How to Become an EMT

NCOAE

On the other hand, you could be called in to attend to the victim of a car accident or a shooting or a heart attack, drowning, mountaineering accident, or drug overdose. You may even have to deliver a baby! You can never predict what will happen over the course of any given shift.

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