Lanark County Ambulance Service paramedics

Level I paramedic

The level I paramedic is a community college graduate of an Ambulance and Emergency Care Program, has obtained EMCA certification, and is employed in an ambulance service. The function of a level I paramedic is to provide emergency patient care, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), patient immobilization, oxygen therapy, basic trauma life support, blood glucose testing, and non-emergency patient care and transportation.

The level I paramedic is certified by a physician to:

• operate a semi-automatic external defibrillator
• provide blood glucometry
• administer drugs including:

ASA
Epinephrine
Glucagon and glucose gel
Nitroglycerin
Salbutamol.

This page last updated July 22, 2009