Emergency medical technician

An emergency medical technician (EMT) is a trained healthcare professional who provides emergency assessment and treatment before hospital care, often while transporting patients by ambulance.

Emergency medical services: Emergency medical services are systems that provide urgent prehospital care and transport to people with acute illness or injury. EMTs work within this broader system of dispatch, field care, and hospital coordination.
Basic life support: Basic life support is noninvasive emergency care that supports breathing and circulation, including CPR and defibrillation. It names the core level of care commonly associated with EMT practice.
Motor vehicle collision: A motor vehicle collision is an event in which one or more vehicles strike another vehicle, person, or object. These incidents commonly require scene safety, injury assessment, and coordination with rescue services.
Advanced EMT: An advanced EMT is a prehospital clinician trained to perform additional interventions beyond the basic EMT level. This higher certification level may permit treatments unavailable to an EMT.
Dominique Jean Larrey: Dominique Jean Larrey was a French military surgeon who organized rapid battlefield evacuation using mobile field hospitals. His ambulance volante system helped establish organized medical evacuation as a model for later services.
Primary survey: A primary survey is a rapid assessment that identifies and addresses immediate threats to life. EMTs use it to find critical problems before moving to a detailed assessment.
Scope of practice: Scope of practice defines the procedures and decisions a professional is legally and practically authorized to perform. An EMT's permitted treatments depend on certification level and local rules.
Myocardial infarction: A myocardial infarction is damage to heart muscle caused by an interruption of its blood supply. EMTs recognize warning signs and arrange time-sensitive transport for suspected heart attacks.
Paramedic: A paramedic is an advanced prehospital clinician trained to provide a broader range of assessment and treatment than an EMT. Paramedics generally have more extensive training and a wider permitted scope of practice.
Ambulance: An ambulance is a vehicle equipped to transport sick or injured people and, in many systems, provide care en route. The vehicle's changing role from transport to treatment shaped the work EMTs perform.

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