EMSV 1400 — Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)
| Lecture/Lab The Emergency Medical Responder course educates participants to be a part of t he nation's Emergency Medical System. Using National EMS Education Standards, this course provides students the knowledge and skills training required by the Emergency Medical Responder (EMR). The EMR course is designed to train volunteers and professionals to assess and provide emergency care to patients with trauma, medical and environmental emergencies in the field of emergency medicine. The primary focus of the EMR is to initiate immediate lifesaving care to critical patients who access the emergency medical system. This individual possesses the basic knowledge and skills necessary to provide lifesaving interventions while awaiting additional EMS response and to assist higher level personnel at the scene and during transport. EMR's function as part of a comprehensive EMS response, under medical oversight. EMRs perform basic interventions with minimal equipment.