Emergency Medical Technician

2 months ago


Compton, United States MEDREACH AMBULANCE SERVICE Full time

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Check patient’s Airway for any obstructions and ensure open airway.
- Comply with established universal precautions and isolation procedures.
- Assess patient’s vital life processes and carry out Basic Life Support functions.
- Clean interior and exterior of the assigned vehicle.
- Lift and carry patients to and from the gurney, backboard, bed, wheelchair, and/or floor.
- Read maps and route ambulance unit.
- Driving an ambulance (emergency and non-emergency responses).
- Transport patients to medical facilities.
- Thoroughly and legibly complete EMS pre-hospital form, run ticket and other related paperwork.
- Assist with the field operation of new hire EMT’s.
- Keep the ambulance in good working order.
- Check and stock medical equipment and keep ambulance clean/washed.
- Report mechanical problems or unusual incidents to a supervisor and dispatch.
- Assess injuries to the central nervous system and initiate appropriate medical treatment.
- Maintain clean and orderly crew quarters.
- Comply with continuing education requirements.
- Keep all licenses and certifications current.

Employee Initials_______
- Maintain verbal contact with dispatch via two-way radio or (if authorized) page regarding unit readiness, crew identity, location, etc.
- Function as a public relations representative when dealing with facilities and/or agencies, etc.
- Responsible for adhering to all company manuals, policies, procedures, training, and memorandums.
- Perform other duties as required.
- All skills within the EMT’s scope of practice which may include but is not limited to:
You will be expected to perform your duties in a calm, professional manner. You must be able to carry out all EMT-level patient assessment and emergency care procedures. The following is a list of all the major EMT skills you should be able to perform in accordance with the law.
- Properly inform patients and gain informed actual consent to treat.
- File the proper reports for special patient situations.
- Use correct medical terminology in communications and reports.
- Relate mechanisms of injury to accident patients in order to detect possible injuries.
- Properly wear and use all assigned clothing and equipment supplied to help reduce the risk of exposure to infectious diseases.
- Complete a primary and secondary survey.
- Gather information from bystanders.
- Determine pulse rate, rhythm, and character.
- Determine respiratory rate and character.
- Palpate and auscultate blood pressures.
- Determine skin temperature, moisture, and color and recognize any changes.
- Determine pupil size, reactivity, and equality.
- Detect distal pulse and nerve activity during assessment of the upper and lower limbs.
- Detect cervical and lower back point tenderness.
- Use a stethoscope to determine lung sounds.
- Conduct an objective physical examination.
- Accurately record information gained during the patient assessment.
- Detect and record changes in vital signs as well as the patient’s condition.
- Open and maintain an airway and determine adequate breathing.
- Determine a carotid pulse.
- Clear partially and fully obstructed airways.
- Establish respiratory arrest and provide safe pulmonary resuscitation.
- Establish cardiac arrest and provide proper cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Provide on-rescuer and two-rescuer CPR, at times while moving.
- Deliver effective ventilation by bag-valve mask, pocket facemask and positive pressure resuscitator.
- Properly insert oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal airways.
- Determine when patients need supplemental oxygen based on signs and symptoms and select the proper delivery device and flow.

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- Detect and control external bleeding
- Use direct pressure, pressure dressings, elevation, pressure points, and tourniquets to control bleeding.
- Estimate internal and external blood loss.
- Detect possible internal bleeding based on signs and symptoms, and mechanism of injury.
- Detect based on signs and symptoms, and care for shock.
- Detect soft tissue injuries and determine their type.
- Dress and bandage open wounds.
- Use occlusive dressings for open chest wounds, open abdominal wounds, and bleeding from major neck veins.
- Preserve and transport avulsed and amputated tissues.
- Stabilize and provide care for an impaled object and an avulsed eye.
- Stabilize and provide care for musculoskeletal injuries.
- Utilize all immobilization tools for fracture and dislocation stabilization.
- Evaluate nerve and circulatory functioning after splinting.
- Immobilize possible spinal injury patients on a long board.
- Use the four-rescuer log roll to place patients on the long board.
- cranial and facial fracture - poisoning
- brain injury - alcohol and drug abuse
- spinal injury - insect and snake bites
- blunt chest trauma - burns
- flail chest - heat and cold emergency
- rib fractures - smoke inhalation
- angina pectoris or AMI - electrical injuries
- CHF - water rela



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