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1) Final report on implementation of the national emergency medical services scope of practice model
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While incremental changes are expected at the Emergency Medical Technician (formerly EMT-B) and Paramedic (formerly EMT-P) levels, the largest change in the NEMSSoPM is the elimination of the EMT-Intermediate 1985 Curriculum and the EMT-Intermediate 1999 (EMT I-99) Curriculum levels. These levels will be replaced with the Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) currently under development. This level represents a significant change from the EMT...
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The shrill sound of the firehouse horn pierces the hazy sleep of pastor and firefighter Nick Foster before he discovers that his church is ablaze. As the firefighters enter the church, Nick stumbles over a body and carries it out just before the building collapses around them. But as the smoldering embers glow in the gentle breeze of the following day, Nick realizes that whoever set the fire is out to destroy him.
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A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila Arsenault is a gorgeous enigma, streetwise and tough-talking, with haunted eyes, fierce desires, and a never-look-back determination. Peter Webster, as straight an arrow as they come, falls for her instantly and entirely. Soon Sheila and Peter are embroiled in an intense love affair, married, and parents to a...
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"Each summer, Kate Livingston returns to her family's lakeside cottage, a place of simple living and happy times - a place where she now hopes her son, Aaron, can blossom. But her quiet life gets a bit more interesting with the arrival of an mysterious new neighbor, JD Harris. JD has good reason for being secretive. In a moment of sheer bravery the Washington, D.C., paramedic prevented a terrible tragedy - and became a national hero. He's hardly able...
9) Her fear
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"In New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray's novel of suspense in her Amish of Hart County series, an EMT falls for a woman with ties to an Amish community where people are dying similar, suspicious deaths"--
10) Hot response
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"Gavin Boudreau lives for the job, but he also believes in 'work hard, play harder.' As the youngest guy in Ladder 37, he figures he's got plenty of time before settling down becomes a priority. Soft, pretty women who aren't looking for promises are exactly his type, and he's comfortable with that. Working with a gorgeous EMT isn't going to change who he is"--Back cover.
11) EMTs help us
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"Introduces pre-readers to simple concepts about EMTs using short sentences and repetition of words"--
12) EMT's tools
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"Understanding each tool is made easy with simple definitions and in-use photos that will show kids how an ambulance, gurney, defibrillator and oxygen mask works."--
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When the station takes a call to say that you're in need an ambulance will get to you by driving at great speed. Come to the rescue with this speedy ambulance and its busy animal crew in this action-filled picture book. Zippy wordplay, zappy art, plus a helpful picture dictionary make learning about ambulances fun! On board pages.
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This book takes the reader to the front lines of medicine, from a serious automobile accident on a dark country road to a woman in cardiac arrest to a young man with near-fatal gunshot wounds. For these patients and countless others, treatment cannot wait until they are wheeled into a distant emergency room. If lives are to be salvaged, care must begin with the life-saving skills of Emergency Medical Technicians. "I could never work on a rescue squad,"...
15) Black flies
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The story of paramedic Ollie Cross and his first year on the job in mid-'90s New York. It is a ground's eye view of life on the streets: the shoot-outs, the bad cops, unhinged medics, the hopeless patients, the dark humor in bizarre circumstances, and one medic's struggle to balance his desire to help against his own growing callousness. It is the story of lives that hang in the balance, and of a single job with a misdiagnosed newborn that sends Cross...
16) The paramedic
19) Super paramedic!
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When Katie's grandmother trips and breaks her ankle, Katie learns about the importance of paramedics to her neighborhood.