A batch of 20 medical personnel, yesterday began their first day of a week-long training course to become fully qualified Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) or Ambulance Technicians, at the Project Dawn location in Liliendaal.Other terms used to denote these healthcare providers of emergency medical services, include ambulance driver, ambulance orderly,NFL Jerseys China, ambulance attendant and ambulance man or woman.A section of the participants during their lunch breakThe precise meaning of the term varies by jurisdiction, but in many countries EMTs respond to emergency calls, perform certain medical procedures and transport patients to hospital in accordance with protocols and guidelines established by physicians or medical directors.They may work in an ambulance service (paid or voluntary), as a member of technical rescue teams/squads, or as part of an allied service such as a fire or police department. EMTs are trained to assess a patient’s condition,NFL Jerseys Supply, and to perform emergency medical procedures as needed to maintain a patent’s airway with adequate breathing and cardiovascular circulation until the patient can be transferred to an appropriate destination for advanced medical care.Interventions include cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillation, controlling severe external bleeding, preventing shock, body immobilization to prevent spinal damage, and splinting of bone fractures.The training is being administered by an overseas-based body named Gemini. It is a Global Emergency Medical Initiative, which is dedicated to teaching and training persons in emergency medicine in the most simplified way.Ovid Fraser, Veterinarian, Rotarian and Leader of the Guyana Gemini Project, told Kaieteur News that they are training persons from various medical entities including the Georgetown Public Hospital and the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, to become qualified EMT trainers so that they can in turn train others like themselves, or even the man on the street.This is the second course for this year. The first was conducted in January and the third will commence in September. By then, Fraser noted, he and his team are hoping to have at least a dozen qualified EMT trainers.The overseas-based Guyanese pointed out that the five participants of the first batch, were also being observed by their superiors as they taught yesterday’s batch. They were Kathy Fabriga,Jerseys China Cheap NFL, Monique Cyrus, Ron Morris,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, Kirk Embrack and Nandram Dat.According to Fabriga, a nurse at the Davis Memorial Hospital, the course is being executed in such a simplified form, that even those with no history of medical teachings will be able to easily understand and teach it to someone else.The leader of the training group is Tim Redding.One of the participants, Deon Alfred, who has been an ambulance attendant for about ten years,Cheap China Jerseys, said that while a nurse is trained to work with stabled patients, it is the EMT’s job to stabilize the patients.“We are the ones who have the lives of persons in our hands since, we are the first responders. We are being tasked to start treatment immediately,NFL Jerseys China,” Alfred said.He also believes that the government should create a network so as to sensitize people about the work of an EMT. He added that if more persons are also trained, and the ambulance service is rebooted, it will save lives, since many persons opt to call for a taxi before they think of an ambulance. This is despite the fact that the ambulance contains equipment to save people’s lives.