Job Summary / Purpose:

Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) are medical professionals provide emergency life–saving services to patients who suffered from accidents like vehicle crashes, burns, street accidents, drug overdose, attempted suicides, gunshot wounds or heart attacks and/or strokes or childbirth and to transport them to medical facilities. At the emergency scene, EMTs immediately look after the patient’s condition. They obtain patient’s medical history and evaluate his present condition. Upon identifying the patient’s condition, they give proper emergency medical service adhering to proper rules, regulations and protocols and transport the patient to the medical facility, EMTs are under a paramedic’s or physician’s supervision. They report all observations and corresponding actions to the emergency department.  After delivery of the patient, they record the details of the trip, restore used supplies and recheck their equipment. They sanitize the ambulance after transport of a patient with a highly contagious disease. The EMT-Basic has skills to give patient care at the scene of the accident and transport them under the guidance of superior skilled personnel. The EMT-Basic also can evaluate the patient’s condition and to apply proper respiratory, heart and trauma care services. The EMT may administer medications orally or by injection when trained and obtain the variance. They can operate electrocardiograms (EKGs), and operate specialized equipment.

Essential Key Job Responsibilities:

• Provides pre-hospital and intra-hospital basic life support care from initial contact until patient care is relinquished to a higher level provider or the accepting medical facility maintaining thorough patient care documentation.
• Obtains information from persons involved, examines victims, and determines nature, extent, or magnitude of illness or injury to establish emergency medical procedures to be followed or need for additional assistance.
• Communicates with professional medical personnel at emergency treatment facility to obtain instructions regarding treatment and to arrange for reception of victims at medical treatment facilities.
• Lifts, carries, and transports injured, sick or incapacitated persons from residential or accident scenes to medical facilities.
• Administers prescribed prehospital treatment at site of emergency or in ambulances according to established protocols.
• Stabilizes, immobilizes, lifts, and moves victims from scene of accident or catastrophe.
• Operates a specially equipped emergency medical vehicle in an assigned geographic area to respond to accidents or catastrophes and to transport injured or ill persons to a medical facility.
• Inspects specially equipped emergency vehicle, cleans equipment to insure its safe operation, and replenishes medical supplies, fuel, and fluids.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.