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2. Emergency medical services - Wikipedia

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   A New South Wales Ambulance emergency medical services unit responding to a call for service. Emergency medical services ( EMS ), also known as ambulance services or paramedic services, are emergency services that provide urgent pre-hospital treatment and stabilisation for serious illness and injuries and transport to definitive care. [1]

3. Emergency medical responder - Wikipedia

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   Emergency medical responders are people who are specially trained to provide out-of-hospital care in medical emergencies, typically before the arrival of an ambulance. Specifically used, an Emergency Medical Responder is an EMS certification level used to describe a level of EMS provider below that of an emergency medical technician and paramedic.

4. Nontransporting EMS vehicle - Wikipedia

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   Nontransporting EMS vehicle. A nontransporting EMS vehicle [a] is a vehicle that responds to and provides emergency medical services (EMS) without the ability to transport patients. For patients whose condition requires transport (e.g. to a hospital), an ambulance is necessary. In some cases they may fulfill other duties when not participating ...

5. Emergency medical services in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Freedom House Ambulance Service was the first emergency medical service in the United States to be staffed by paramedics with medical training beyond basic first aid. [24] In the late 1960s, Dr. R Adams Cowley was instrumental in the creation of the country's first statewide EMS program, in Maryland. The system was called the Division of ...

6. Emergency Service Unit - Wikipedia

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   An emergency service unit (ESU), alternatively emergency service detail (ESD) or emergency service squad (ESS), is a type of unit within an emergency service, usually police, that is capable of responding to and handling a broader or more specific range of emergencies and calls for service than regular units within their organization, such as rescue, emergency management, and mass casualty ...

7. New York City Fire Department Bureau of EMS - Wikipedia

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   9. Ambulances. 450 [3] (2018) The New York City Fire Department Bureau of Emergency Medical Services ( FDNY EMS) is a division of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) in charge of emergency medical services for New York City. It was established on March 17, 1996, following the merger of the FDNY and New York City Health and Hospitals ...