Ems System

The Emergency Medical Services system is a complex world incorporating the latest techniques and ideas in healthcare with emergency response, technical rescue, and efficient and safe transport to definitive care. Through hundreds of years of progression and developments in both healthcare and training, EMS today has come to be an efficient and truly life-saving service. The emergency medical provider in the prehospital arena is a highly trained and capable individual entrusted with the care of those people who are extremely sick or critically injured at their most vulnerable times. Among those in prehospital healthcare, there are several tiers of provider. Generally speaking, in the United States, healthcare professionals are classified as First Responders and Emergency Medical Technicians, at the Basic, Intermediate, and Paramedic levels. Each has a very important and unique function, and often heavily rely on each other on a daily basis. The EMT-Paramedic ("paramedic" here on) is the most highly trained prehospital care technician, and is capable of providing lifesaving techniques on par with some nurses and doctors in hospitals. The care provided by paramedics is most commonly called Advanced Life Support, or ALS, in the United States. While there is an abundance of EMT-Basic ("EMT" here on) providers in practically every community, frequently there are fewer paramedics, especially in the large majority of rural areas in most of the US. ALS is a valuable and sometimes difficult to obtain service in many places, where most of EMS is provided by EMTs on the local fire or rescue service. Often, however, there is a need for specialized and emergent care that exceeds the abilities of even the best EMT. This creates a need for ALS services that are easily accessible and relable for local rescue organizations. Presently in the United States there are several forms of ALS services. Examples of such include fire department-based, third service-based, third service