Emergency medical technicians

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Duties and responsibilities:

Emergency medical technicians, or ETMs, usually work in terms of two in specially designed ambulance. They provide immediate life or limb saving medical treatment at the scene of accidents and injuries as well as transport casualties to hospitals emergency decal technicians often respond to:

• ·   Automobile accidents
• ·       Heart attack
• ·       Gunshot wounding
• ·       Unscheduled childbirth
•  Drowning’ Other serious medical emergencies

Average salary: $25,000-$37,000

Educational requirements:

Students must have high school diploma (in some areas GED certified may be substitute)in order to become an emergency medical   technicians. Driver’s education, health, and science courses are strongly recommended and may require before enrolling in some training programs.

 Basic emergency medical technician training includes about 100-120 hours spent in the classroom and 10 hour in hospital’s emergency room. Emergency medical technicians are required to pass state licensing or certification test and participate in continuing education programs. Many emergency medical technicians earn associate degree in their field.

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