EMT-B Certification

What would you like to see done with the EMT-B cert?

  • Do away with it all together and make EMT-A the minimum?

    Votes: 22 37.9%

  • Leave it in but require more CE hours and clinical hours?

    Votes: 19 32.8%

  • Leave it alone. It works just fine as is.

    Votes: 17 29.3%
  • Total voters
    58
Tigger said:
Could not agree more. This is why I think American EMS needs to move away from using BLS units in 911 situations. Most of my patients do not have any "immediate life threats" but they do need medical care and the sooner the better.


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Down south we may not be the brightest, but we can surprise you at times :D. In MS, it requires a paramedic to be in the back of the truck on a 911 transport. IFT is just fine with a basic, but that is the only time a basic gets to be "the man". Any BLS truck caught on a 911 call must call for ALS intercept. In Louisiana my friends can declare a call BLS and the EMT assumes all the duties while the medic drives. I think as long as a paramedic (not an EMT-I) is on the truck, its fit for 911 service.


To answer the OP, I actually just said in a different post that the EMT level needs to be revamped. Today's EMT classes are focused around getting you passed registry and that's it, and you do not get field competent entry level emts from that. I think a little more class time, more emphasis on ALS assist, and more time spent on a truck as a student.
 
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