EMS Response Duties

Personnel assigned EMS response duties must be able to safely perform the following tasks, with or without reasonable accommodation:

Emergency Medical Operations:

• Rapidly respond to on-track and off-track medical emergencies
• Perform primary and secondary patient assessments
• Provide care within certification level (EMT, AEMT, Paramedic)
• Manage medical and traumatic emergencies, including high-energy mechanisms of injury
• Stabilize patients for transfer to transporting EMS agencies
• Assist with patient packaging and movement
• Enter and exit response vehicles quickly and safely

Clinical Skills and Patient Care:

• Perform airway management appropriate to certification level
• Administer oxygen and assist with ventilation
• Control bleeding using direct pressure, tourniquets, and other approved methods
• Perform CPR and opera...