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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
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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