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SMCAS
is committed to providing the best and most advanced pre-hospital
Advanced Life
Support to all the patients we treat. To
provide this service, all employees are educated with the latest
evidence based
training and information available for pre-hospital providers. Also,
each employee is provided and trained
in the most advanced diagnostic equipment designed for the pre-hospital
environment.
Each
SMCAS ambulance is staffed with the minimum of a Basic Level Emergency
Medical
Technician and a Paramedic Level Emergency Medical Technician. While
this is the State of Michigan minimum
requirement to operate an Advanced Life Support ambulance, SMCAS
strives to
provide much more than the minimum requirement. Many
of our staff are at the Specialist level and all of
our Full-Time and most of our Part-Time Paramedics
have achieved the certification of the Critical Care Emergency
Medical
Transport Program through the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. We
hold ourselves to the highest of standards
and perform continual quality assurance to make sure all patients are
treated
to exceed the standard of care.
Some of
the core continuing education that most employees receive includes BCLS
(Basic
Cardiac Life Support), ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Live Support), HazMat
(Hazardous
Materials) Awareness, PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support), and PHTLS
(Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support) or ITLS (International Trauma Life
Support). While these are the
basic
requirements for SMCAS
employees, most of SMCAS employees are either certified or licensed in
many of
the following:
HazMat
Operations
HazMat
Technician
Firefighter
I & II
FireOfficer Training
CCEMT
(Critical Care Emergency Medical Transport)
CDLS
(Core Disaster Life Support)
BDLS (Basic Disaster Life Support)
ADLS (Advanced Disaster Life Support)
RN
(Registered Nurse)
Certified
and Reserve Police Officers
Licensed
EMS I/C (Instructor/Coordinator)
BCLS,
ACLS, PALS, PHTLS, and ITLS Instructor
Deputy
Medical Examiner
TEMS
(Tactical Emergency Medical Support)
12-18
Lead ECG’s (Electro Cardiogram)
Mechanical
Ventilators and CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure)
Technical
Rescues:
Vehicle
Extrication
Swift
Water Rescue
Ice
Rescue
Confined
Space Rescue
Airplane
Crash Rescue
High
Angle Rescue
Trench
Rescue
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