Emergency medical technician

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Duties and responsibilities:

Emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, usually work in team of two in specially designed ambulances. They provide immediate life or limb saving medical treatment at the scenes of accidents and injuries as well as transport casualties to hospital emergency room for further care. The job is both physically demanding and stressful. Emergency medical technicians often respond to:

1.Automobile accidents

2.Heart attacks

3.Gunshot wounding

4.Unscheduled childbirth

5.Drownings

6.Other serious medical emergencies

Average salary:$25,000-$37,000

Educational requirments:

Students must have a high school diploma (in some areas GED certificates may be substituted)in order to become an emergency medical technician. Driver’s education recommended in some training programs.

Basic emergency medical technician training includes about 100-120 hours spent in the classroom and 10 hours in a hospital emergency room. Emergency medical technicians are required to pass state licencing or certificated test and participate in continuing education programs. Many emergency medical techniicans earn associate degrees in their field.

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I would like to be one because I want to see people bleed and me