Emergency Medical Technician - Compton, United States - MEDREACH AMBULANCE SERVICE

Description

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 nonemergency responses).
• Transport patients to medical facilities.
• Thoroughly and legibly complete EMS prehospital 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.

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• Maintain verbal contact with dispatch via twoway 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 onrescuer and tworescuer CPR, at times while moving.
• Deliver effective ventilation by bagvalve 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 fourrescuer 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

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