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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Re: Dutchess County NY dispat
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- Date: 26 Dec 1992 01:57:50 GMT
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- While we're here, Texas has:
- ECA - Emergency Care Attendant - basically an advanced first aid curriculum
- taught by state certuified instructors
- EMT - Basic EMT
- EMT-I - EMT Intermediate: basic plus IV, MAST and ET (was EMT-SS (special
- skills))
- EMT-P - Paramedic
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- There's no distinction for MICU nurse; nursing certification is meaningless in
- the prehospital environment in Texas, and a nurse serving as part of an
- ambulance crew must also have an EMT certification. (Practically speaking,
- most of the air ambulance nurses went ahead and got EMT-P.) Texas has no
- formal EMT-D certification, but use of automatic external defibrillators may
- be delegated to EMT and above at the medical director's discretion.
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "Brought to you by the letters O, S, and by the number 2." -- Mike Levis
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