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How to Become a Community Paramedic

Unitek EMT

Explore the educational pathway, skills, and opportunities in community paramedicine. Community Paramedicine represents a transformative approach to healthcare delivery, particularly in underserved or rural areas where access to healthcare services is often limited.

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Differences in Accuracy Between Paramedics and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) When Identifying Low-Acuity Pediatric Patients

International Journal of Paramedicine

One barrier to including children in such programs is a lack of evidence regarding whether paramedics and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) can accurately identify children with low-acuity complaints. Our primary objective was to compare the accuracy of EMTs to that of paramedics in identifying low-acuity pediatric encounters.

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Paramedic Workforce Disparities Marked by Geographical Positioning

International Journal of Paramedicine

Introduction: Effective service delivery and the wellbeing of the paramedic workforce is reliant on confounding factors and is effectuated by geographical positioning. Key words including paramedic*, EMT, urban OR metro*, rural OR remote and disparit* were inserted into the search engines MEDLINE, CINAHL Plus and Scopus.

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How to Become a Paramedic in the Army

Paramedic Training Spot

If you’ve been struggling to decide between serving as a Soldier in the United States Army or becoming a paramedic , venture no further; you’ve come to the right place. Specifically, we’ll be diving deep as we discuss how to become a combat paramedic in the United States Army. What is a Paramedic?

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Telemedicine for Ambulance Crews Has a Future, Despite Fiasco of ET3

Pulsara

Every EMT or paramedic who works out in the field knows that a fair percentage, some might say the majority, of our patients, don’t actually need to go to the emergency room.” Is it safe for this patient to go to urgent care? Can they get a prescription written for a new medicine or refill an existing prescription?

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Demonstration of Doppler Ultrasound Pulse Detection by Trained Prehospital Personnel

International Journal of Paramedicine

This research aims to assess whether EMT-Basics and Paramedics can be quickly and inexpensively trained to use DUSG as a tool for pulse detection. Chest compressions performed as indicated by these circumstances may not provide significant therapeutic benefit to those patients and may, in fact, distract from better directed therapies.

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The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Turnover Intention Among EMS Providers

International Journal of Paramedicine

Among the important implications of this study is trait EI should be included in discussions of job turnover of EMTs and paramedics, especially in human resource planning. While EI is found to predict turnover intention, other factors such as physical health, perceived stress, and income may be better predictors of turnover intent.