EMT Training

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Alaska State certified basic emergency medical course beyond advance first aid. The course emphasizes prevention, assessment and care of injury and illness commonly encountered in both urban and rural settings.

Presents skills for proficiency in victim assessment, recognition, and treatment of medical emergencies and other basic life support procedures. Includes observation experience in hospitals, emergency rooms or other sites. Provides the necessary training to become state or nationally registered as an EMT I, which is optional.

Special note: Students must have the strength to be able to move victims, sufficient vision to assess condition of victims and dexterity to perform the skills application procedures.

Registration Restrictions: Provide evidence of professional CPR training and certification that includes adult, child and infant CPR and airways obstruction relief maneuvers, including two rescuer CPR and barrier devices.

Provides the EMT I with added skills of advanced airway, specialized tourniquets and intravenous treatment.

Special note: Students desiring Alaska certification must pass, within 1 year after completing the education program, the written and practical examination for Emergency Medical Technician II administered by Community Health and Emergency Medical Services (CHEMS). In order to obtain a State of Alaska EMT II certification, the student must obtain a CHEMS approved physician sponsor.

Registration Restrictions: Must be certified as a State of Alaska EMT I or Nationally Registered EMT-Basic (comity is required). Current healthcare provider CPR card; documentation of 10 patient contacts since becoming a certified EMT; and a DHSS-approved sponsoring physician.

Emphasizes knowledge and skills necessary to apply electrodes and monitor cardiac activity, defibrillating life-threatening arrhythmias and administer specific pharmacological agents.

Special note: Students desiring Alaska certification must pass within one year after completing the education program, the written and practical examination for Emergency Medical Technician III administered by Community Health and Emergency Medical Services (CHEMS).

Registration Restrictions: Currently certified in Alaska as an EMT II, documented 10 patient contacts and 10 intravenous sticks.