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paramedic

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par·a·med·ic (pr-mdk)
n.
A person who is trained to give emergency medical treatment or assist medical professionals.
paramedic
[-med′ik]
Etymology: Gk, para + L, medicina, art of healing
a person who acts as an assistant to a physician or in place of a physician until the physician is available. paramedical, adj.
paramedic [par″ah-med´ik]
a person trained to manage the emergency care of sick or injured persons during transport to a hospital, including administration of injections and intravenous fluids, reading of electrocardiograms, and performance of defibrillation and other advanced life-support measures if ordered by a physician. See also emergency medical technician.
paramedic
A health professional certified to perform advanced life support procedures–eg, intubation, defibrillation and administration of drugs under a physician's direction; paramedics provide urgent care from an emergency vehicle or air service; in contrast, EMTs can only perform basic life-support. Cf EMT, Physicians' assistant, Physician extender.
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Concerns have been raised that Emergency Care Support Workers (ECSWs) - who are trained for up to nine weeks to administer basic emergency treatment - are being called to cases without a paramedic where their skills are not deemed enough to deal with the emergency.
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Concerns have been raised that Emergency Care Support Workers (ECSWs) are being called to cases without a paramedic and their skills are not deemed enough to deal with the emergency.
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One course that you can find is the paramedic to RN bridge program.
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