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A career in EMS is both rewarding and demanding. People’s lives often depend on the competent emergency medical care and emotional support provided by emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics to patients and their families in crisis. Emergencies such as automobile crashes, heart attacks, slips and falls, childbirth, and gunshot wounds challenge the EMS crews' training, skills, and commitment. EMTs and paramedics provide a vital service as they care for and transport the critically sick and injured to medical facilities.

Requirements

In Pennsylvania, there are two levels of certification in the prehospital work environment, the EMT-Basic and the EMT-Paramedic.

An EMT-Basic (often referred to simply as EMT) is trained at the basic life support level. Skills includes oxygen administration, vital signs monitoring, spinal and extremity immobilization, recognition of life-threatening conditions, automated external defibrillation (AED) operation, and other non-invasive skills.

To become an EMT-Basic you must:

Be at least 16 years old
Enjoy working with people
Perform well in stressful situations
Complete a 120 hour classroom state approved course
Pass the state practical and written skills examinations
Re-certify every three years
Participate in continuing education training

An EMT-Paramedic (often referred to simply as Paramedic) is the highest-trained prehospital emergency care provider in the EMS system. The Paramedic accepts the awesome responsibility for patient care. In addition to providing basic life support, Paramedics are trained in advanced life support procedures. Currently, paramedics may administer approximately 60 different medications: orally, intravenously, intraosseously and intra-nasally. Paramedics perform advance airway procedures including endotracheal intubation, needle cricothyrotomy, needle chest decompression and CPAP adminstration. Paramedic skills include the interpretation of electrocardiograms (EKGs), defibrillation/cardioversion, and transthoracic pacing.

To become an EMT-Paramedic you must:

Be certified as an EMT
Complete 600 hours of classroom training
Complete 400-500 hours of clinical (in hospital) and field training
Pass the state practical and written examinations
Maintain a minimum of 18 hours continuing education per year
Be granted Medical Command privileges from a licensed board certified Emergency Medicine physician

To find out more about how to become an EMT or Paramedic click on the links below.

PA Dept. of Health Recruitment Website

National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians

Community College of Allegheny County

Butler County Community College

Center for Emergency Medicine

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