Paramedic definition

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A person who is trained to give emergency medical treatment or assist medical professionals.
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A medic who parachutes to combat or rescue areas.
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(US) An individual who is licensed at the state or national level to practice medical interventions in an emergency pre-hospital setting.
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A person specially trained to provide emergency medical services, as in or from an ambulance.
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A person who is trained to give emergency medical treatment or assist medical professionals.
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An individual trained to medically stabilize people through various interventions, victims of trauma or medical events outside of a hospital setting and preparing them for transport to a medical facility.
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A person trained to assist a doctor, nurse, etc.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
paramedic
Plural:
paramedics

Paramedic Sentence Examples

  • He served in the first Gulf War as a member of the Navy and then worked as a paramedic for 12 years after getting out of the military.

  • Some of this equipment is the same as that used in paramedic ambulances, some has been produced specifically for mountain rescue.

  • Air Ambulance paramedics assisted on scene, one patient taken to hospital by land ambulance with Air Ambulance paramedics assisted on scene, one patient taken to hospital by land ambulance with Air Ambulance paramedic.

  • This is currently performed with a curved plastic tube, which requires the presence of a trained paramedic in order to administer it correctly.

  • Walters reached number one on the Billboard charts with his hit song, but soon retired from showbiz and became a licensed paramedic.

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