Paramedic

Definition: Paramedic

Paramedic

Noun

1. A person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment.

Specialty Definitions: Paramedic

Domain	Definitions
Health	An emergency medical technician (EMT) who received further training for the delivery of some aspects of advanced life support (ALS) care. (references)
Occupations	Administers life support care to sick and injured persons in prehospital setting as authorized and directed by physician: Assesses nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures to be followed or need for additional assistance. Restores and stabilizes heart rhythm on pulseless, nonbreathing patient, using defibrillator, or as directed by physician. Monitors cardiac patient, using electrocardiograph. Initiates intravenous fluids to administer medication or drugs, or to replace fluids lacking in body. Performs endotracheal intubation to open airways and ventilate patient. Administers injections of medications and drugs, following established protocols. Inflates pneumatic anti-shock garment on patient to improve blood circulation. Administers initial treatment at emergency scene and takes and records patient's vital signs. Assists in extricating trapped victims and transports sick and injured persons to treatment center. Observes, records, and reports to physician patient's condition and reaction to drugs, treatments, and significant incidents. May drive mobile intensive care unit to emergency scene. May serve as team leader for EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS (medical ser.) 079.374-010. May communicate with physician and other medical personnel via radio-telephone. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Paramedic

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A Paramedic is a professional who is trained to be an aide to licensed medical personnel. More commonly however, the more commonly known paramedics are those who are trained to respond to medical emergencies out in the field for the purpose of stabilizing the victim's condition so s/he can be transported to medical facilities.

In the United States, EMTs are licensed according to their level of training. Although the National Registry of EMT's is one such licensing entity, individual states may set their own standards of licensure. All EMT's must meet the minimum requirements as set forth in the Department of Transportation's standards for EMT curriculum. National Registry recognizes three levels of EMT: EMT-B (Basic), EMT-I (Intermediate) and EMT-P (Paramedic). The paramedic level is the highest level of nationally registered positions. In addition to the basic-level skills of CPR, first aid, airway management, oxygen administration, spinal immobilization, traction splinting, bleeding control and splinting, as well as the intermediate skills of IV therapy, endotracheal intubation and initial cardiac drug therapy, the paramedic is also educated in EKG interpretation, advanced airway skills, pharmacology, trauma resuscitation, pediatric life support and advanced cardiac life support.

Paramedics are often employed by emergency medical services or as firefighters. Paramedics may respond to calls in an ambulance or have their own dedicated response vehicle, even sometimes a fire engine.

As nursing shortages become more and more prevalent, paramedics are being increasingly used in the Emergency Rooms and Intensive Care Units of hospitals. In addition, paramedics are often used as chief medical personnel on offshore drilling platforms and on MEDEVACS and airplanes. However, paramedics may be employed in many different medical fields, not necessarily in that of the transport of patients. Such positions may include phlebotomy, blood banks, research labs and educational fields.

In the U.S., salaries paramedics can expect range anywhere from unpaid, volunteer positions to around $60,000, depending on location and experience. It should be noted that volunteer paramedics can provide the same level of care as those at the upper end of the pay scale. Currently, in the United States, the busiest EMS service per ambulance is New Orleans' Health Department EMS, which responds to approximately 4,000 "911" calls per month, utilizing six ambulances for the entire city of about 500,000 people.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Paramedic."

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Synonym: Paramedic

Synonym: paramedical (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Paramedic

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	There ain't no paramedic ("Bad Medicine"; performing artist: Bon Jovi)
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Commercial Usage: Paramedic

Domain	Title
References	Ambulance and Paramedic Service in Hong Kong: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Mosby's Paramedic Textbook (Revised Reprint) (reference) Paramedic Care, Principles and Practice: Introduction to Advanced Prehospital Care Workbook, Volume 1 (reference) Paramedic Care: Principles Practice, Volume 4: Trauma Emergencies (reference) Paramedic Care: Trauma Emergencies, (5 Volume Set) (reference) PARAMEDIC EXAM 2E (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	I Wanna Be a Paramedic (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech	911 Paramedic (reference) 911 Paramedic / ER Code Red (Jewel Case) (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Image Slideshow: Paramedic

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Photo Album: Paramedic

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A woman "paramedic" tests the tetanus case for serum hypersensitivity before starting the emergency treatment ... / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Harrison..
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Non-Fiction Usage: Paramedic

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The village doctors, who often have little more than rudimentary paramedic training, both raise crops and provide their communities with basic HCS on a fee-for-service basis. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Paramedic

"Paramedic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.37% of the time. "Paramedic" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	97.37%	37	56,631
Noun (proper)	2.63%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	38	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Paramedic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
paramedic	455
paramedic school	131
paramedic job	109
paramedic training	100
flight paramedic	37
paramedic salary	32
paramedic employment	29
become paramedic	29
paramedic program	26
paramedic test	22
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Modern Translations: Paramedic

Language		Translations for "paramedic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏مضمد (dresser, first aid man), ‏خدمات الإسعاف, ‏شبه طبي. (various references)

Bulgarian		фелдшер (loblolly boy). (various references)

Czech		zdravotník. (various references)

French		paramédical. (various references)

German		sanitäter (ambulance man, first-aid attendant, orderly). (various references)

Hebrew		חובש (dresser, first aid man, jailor, medical orderly, nurse). (various references)

Hungarian		felcser (bone setter, leech), egészségügyi segédszemélyzet, egészségügyi (hygienic, medic, medical, sanitarian, sanitary). (various references)

Indonesian		paramedis. (various references)

Italian		paramedico, medico paracadutato. (various references)

Pig Latin		aramedicpay.(various references)

Portuguese		paramagnético. (various references)

Russian		санитар (corpsman, male nurse, medical orderly, orderly, stretcher-bearer), фельдшер (first aid man, medical orderly, surgeon's mate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bolničar (medic, medical orderly). (various references)

Spanish		paramédico (paramedical). (various references)

Swedish		person med paramedicinsk utbildning, paramedicinsk. (various references)

Turkish		paraşütçü askeri doktor, yardımcı sağlık hizmeti veren kimse. (various references)

Ukranian		медик із середнею освітою, медик парашутно-десантних військ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Paramedic

Derivations
	Words beginning with "paramedic": paramedical, paramedicals, paramedics. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Paramedic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: maravedis, Paramedia, paramedix, parametic, piromidic, Portmadoc. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Paramedic"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "paramedic" (pronounced pe"rume'dik)
3	-d i k	acidic, Benedick, comedic, encyclopedic, episodic, heraldic, medic, melodic, nomadic, nordic, orthopedic, periodic, rhapsodic, sporadic, tornadic.
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Anagrams: Paramedic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-m-p-r"
	-2 letters: campier, cardiae, cramped, crimped, madeira, peracid.
	-3 letters: acarid, acedia, admire, aramid, arcade, camera, camped, camper, cardia, caried, carped, craped, damper, decamp, dermic, diaper, madcap, paired, parade, pardie, picara, priced, primed, ramped, redcap, repaid.
	-4 letters: acari, acred, acrid, aecia, aider, aimed, aimer, aired, amice, amide, apace, arced, areca, areic, armed, cadre, caird, campi, caped, caper, cared, carpi, cedar, ceria, cider, cramp, crape, cream, cried, crime, crimp, cripe, damar, daric, deair, derma, dicer, dimer, drama, drape, dream, erica, imped, irade, maced, macer, madre, maria, media, medic, micra, mired, paced, pacer, padre, padri, parae, pardi, pared, praam, price, pride, pried, prima, prime, raced, ramie, raped, rapid, recap, redia, redip, remap, riced, rimed, riped.
	-5 letters: aced, acid, acme, acre, aide, amia, amid, amie, amir, aped, aper, area, aria, arid, cade, cadi, caid, came, camp, cape, card, care, carp, cedi, cire, cram, crap, dace, dame, damp, dare, dear, derm, dice, dime, dire, dram, drip, emic, emir, epic, iced, idea, idem, ired, maar, mace, made, maid, mair, marc, mare, mead, mica, mice, mire, paca, pace, padi, paid, pair, para, pard, pare, pear, peri, perm, pica, pice, pied, pier, pima, pram, prim, race, raia, raid, rami, ramp, rape, read, ream, reap, rice, ride, rime, ripe.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-m-p-r"
	+1 letter: paramedics.
	+2 letters: paramedical.
	+3 letters: paramedicals.
	+4 letters: demographical.
	+5 letters: polyacrylamide.
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