lyndonff

Thanks everyone for your responses. These numbers are exactly what i needed. Thanks again for your help.

I am the service director for a first responder unit, and we are thinking of upgrading our service to emt-basic non transport. i was wondering how many emt-basics your department has to make 24/7 coverage possible. im not talking members on your roster, but how many emts actually do the work to keep your service 24/7 compliant. I cant find a definate or estimate answer anywhere with the state, but was hoping everyone on here could help me get a rough number.

When i went through school a few years ago the Basic class in wisconsin was 86 hours, plus you had to take a side course to do the aed, combitube, advance skills drugs and you had to pass the state exam and national registry. now they wrapped the skills and basic class into one class lasting 125 hours approximently, plus you still have to pass the state and national registry. Around here we can use auto, semi auto or manual defib depending upon your service and protocols, BUT almost everyone at the basic level use SEMI-auto defibs. also our ECG skills are non interpretive, so you can learn what they mean so it helps you understand the problem enroute, but you just arent allowed to report your findings the the hospital in the radio or phone report.

From what i have heard from people from neighboring states, Wisconsin allows basics to do a great deal. We can do non visualized, double lumen airways, cpap, albuterol, in some cases atrovent, nitro, epi pen and subcutaneous epi, glucagon, glucose checks, manual, auto and semi-auto defib and both 3 and 12 lead ecg monitoring.