healthyking
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So i was reading on the oems for Virginia and i saw something about new skills for EMT's but is that in effect. I start class in a week in a half?
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planetmike
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It's my understanding that new protocols are still being rolled out, region by region. For Western Virginia, our new EMT-B protocols will include administering narcan and glucagon. There are a few other protocol changes, but the changes also include fixing typos and other minor corrections in the previous version. http://wvems.org/index.php?option=c...ms-2014-ems-protocols&catid=28:news&Itemid=62
healthyking
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So does these protocols apply to all of Virginia or just the western part? And idk if the skills I saw that were new started in 2012 or so but it's on the Virginia oems website. It was talking about transitioning to the Virginia curriculum something in that nature
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These are the protocols for Western Virginia region. My EMT-B instructor said that last year was the first year that Virginia was using NREMT as their standard for what we should be learning in EMT-B classes. I'm guessing that is what the "new" skills are that you originally mentioned.
Virginia is divided into various EMS regions...
...each of which has their own protocols. I run under ODEMSA (Old Dominion EMS Alliance) and we're already able to give glucagon and narcan IN as basics.