Thursday November 20 1997 16:41, Melissa Ying wrote to Timur Cetin:
 MY>      EMT stands for Emergency Medical Technician.  I don't know what
 MY> levels you have in Germany, so I can't draw any parallels for you.  In
 MY> Ontario, EMT-B is roughly equivalent to an EMR, Emergency Medical
 MY> Responder, but the requirement up here to work an ambulance service (St.
 MY> John doesn't count) is currently an EMCA (Emergency Medical Care
 MY> Assistant, I think).  There's EMT-B, EMT-I and EMT-A.  I know B stands 
for
 MY> Basic, but I'm not sure about the I and the A... Intermediate and 
Advanced
 MY> makes sense, but I could be waaaay off the mark. :)
EMT-A: EMT, Ambulance
EMT-B: EMT, Basic
EMT-I: EMT, Intermediate (also known as CRT: Cardiac Rescue Technician)
EMT-P: EMT, Paramedic
An EMT-A and EMT-B are very close.  The difference is that an EMT-A was 
trained with more knowledge of physiology than an EMT-B which is trained to 
focus more on assessments.  EMT-A is being phased out; in my jurisdiction all 
EMT-A's must be EMT-B's by December 31st, 1999 so they're not even teaching 
the A course anymore around here.  There's a 24 hour "bridge" course they 
give which will upgrade your "A" to a "B" certification. (which I did in 
March)  In this area, CRT's are being phased out as well, around the same 
time frame I believe. After the year 2000, existing CRT's will either have to 
take the necessary courses to become a Paramedic or they'll get knocked down 
to EMT-B status.  I'm not sure what the logic is behind that, but apparantly 
that's what they're doing in this area.
Also, in this area, EMT-A and EMT-B are allowed to defibrillate using an 
Automatic External Defibrillator (A.E.D.) but not with a manual defibrillator 
which is reserved for use by the CRT's and Paramedics.
Dave
davidh@smart.net
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