Emergency Medical Technician in Virginia

Emergency Medical Technician - emergency medical service, whose duties include assisting in life-threatening conditions:

 -          road traffic accidents, falls, mine-explosive, gunshot, knife wounds, burns, drowning, electrocution;

-          Loss of consciousness, convulsions;

-          Urgent heart disease (myocardial infarction, and others.);

-          Acute poisoning;

-          Acute abdominal pain;

-          And other diseases, representing a direct threat to human life.

 Duties the emergency doctor

1. Provision of timely qualified medical aid to the sick and injured, in accordance with the established guidelines and procedures;
2. Supervise the work of the brigade, watch over timely staffed medical box, write-off of medicines and dressing material;
3. When receiving a call on the substation immediately go to the challenge, regardless of the staffing the brigade and other reasons. From the moment of exit of the substation, portable radio should be included, with the radio can work only a doctor. Turn off the radio is allowed only at the moment of arrival the brigade at the substation;
4. Conduct a thorough and competent inspection of the patient to provide quality medical care in full, to give advice to further treatment and regime upon leaving the patient's home;
5. Notify the driver to the need for more rapid delivery of the patient to a hospital due to severity of the condition the patient;
6. In case of death, before the arrival of ambulance to report to senior doctor of substation;

What should inform the person, the calling the service to get help in a timely manner?

By calling an ambulance on the phone, must be reported: the exact address (house number and apartment floor), name, age of injured, the reason for the call, the phone and the caller's name.

To reduce the unnecessary time, for the arrival of the brigade is necessary (if the call from home) ensure access to the patient and a sufficient lighting, insulate pets.

Before the arrival of ambulance

Those who have suffered an accident or fell from a height, before the arrival of "first aid", to touch can only in one case: if place, where they are, is physically dangerous (a burning house or a car, etc.). Because the extra movement threaten human disabilities and sometimes death. Therefore, the first rule of rescuers - to disassemble the vehicle, freeing the space around the victim, and not forcibly pull him out of there.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

To do chest compressions and artificial respiration should be able to each. But if you do not know, it is better not to take. And if you have the appropriate skills, keep in mind a few comments:

-          if a person's heart beats and palpable pulse, such measures are not necessary!

-          before carrying out artificial respiration do not forget to clean the mouth of the victim;

-          the heart is right behind the breastbone. No need to press on the stomach or in the left part thorax - just to the chest;

-          under artificial respiration is necessary to achieve that the air gone in the lungs rather than in the stomach. Look: the thorax rises - well, rises the belly - your efforts are in vain. Slightly throw back one's head so that the air passed in the lungs.

People, first of all, must be responsible for their health and not to neglect the prescribed treatment, follow the recommendations of the local doctor, lead a healthy lifestyle, then the ambulance and may not have to apply.