What Would I Do?
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Paramedics [Emergency Medical Assistants] provide pre-hospital emergency medical care to patients with injuries or medical illnesses and transport them to hospitals or other medical facilities for further medical care.
Your duties may include:
- assessing injuries or medical illnesses of trauma victims, patients with respiratory disease and stress, overdose and poisoning victims, industrial accident victims and other ill or injured individuals to determine emergency medical treatment
- administering pre-hospital emergency care to patients such as oxygen therapy, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), spinal immobilization, bandaging and splinting
- establishing and maintaining intravenous treatment (IV), applying equipment for ventilation and circulation complications
- administering medications and providing other advanced emergency treatment to patients
- transporting patients by air, land or water to hospital or other medical facility for further medical care
- collaborating with ambulance dispatch centres, hospital staff, police, firefighters and family members to make sure relevant information is collected and proper treatment is administered
- documenting nature of injuries and illnesses and treatment provided
- maintaining ambulances and emergency care equipment and supplies
- may assist with triage of emergency patients