So you want to be an intermediate? People’s lives often depend on the quick reaction and competent care of intermediates. Bridging the gap between paramedicine and basic skills maintained by EMTs, intermediates are involved in incidents as varied as automobile accidents, heart attacks, drownings, childbirth, and gunshot wounds all require immediate medical attention. Although stressful at times, these incidents all have one feature in common: the potential to make a difference in someone’s life. As an intermediate, you will soon find that there is nothing better in life than being able to say that you saved someone’s life when asked about your day.

General Statement of Job

Assisting with and performing skills usually seen within the hospital to those in need of medical help outside of a hospital setting help to define an EMT Intermediate. You should be competent in all basic skills as well as advanced airway management, intravenous fluid therapy, and limited medication administration and pharmacology. Thus, as an intermediate, you will provide direct patient care to sick and injured patients in all age groups, neonates through geriatrics. As an advanced life support provider, you must utilize all aspects of the primary and secondary survey to manage a developmentally appropriate plan of care for each patient, evaluate the patient’s response, and coordinate care effectively. You will be responsible for performing in accordance with established emergency medical procedures and techniques in the care of your patients.

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