EMS/Paramedic - Grand River Technical School

EMS/Paramedic from Grand River Technical School is a Campus Certificate Medical Emergency degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. Lives are saved every day due to the quick reaction and competent care of emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and Paramedics - EMTs with additional advance training to perform more difficult pre-hospital medical procedures. Missouri EMS personnel respond to over 1/2 million calls annually for incidents as varied as heart attacks, auto accidents, drownings, childbirth, gunshot wounds, etc. all requiring immediate medical attention. During the 1950s, the need for quality pre-hospital care of the critically ill and injured was recognized and, as a result, standardized levels of emergency medical education and pre-hospital health care delivery were developed through the United States Department of Transportation. Grand River Technical School offers three levels of EMS training: First Responder EMT-Basic EMT-Paramedic The minimum level - First Responders - are trained to provide basic emergency medical care because they are usually the first persons to arrive on the scene of an accident. Many firefighters, police officers, and other emergency workers have this level of training. The EMT-Basic rescue personnel are trained to care for patients on accident scenes and in transport by ambulance to the hospital under medical direction. The EMT has the emergency skills to assess a patient's condition and manager respiratory, cardiac, and trauma emergencies. The EMT-Paramedic provides the most extensive pre-hospital care, which includes administration of intravenous fluids and use of manual defibrillators to give lifesaving shocks to a stopped heart. The paramedic will utilize advanced airway techniques and equipment to assist patients experiencing respiratory emergencies. Paramedics may also administer drugs orally and intravenously, interpret EKGs, perform endotrachael intubations, and use monitors and other complex equipment. View more details on Grand River Technical School . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Medical Emergency courses.