emergency medical technician

English

Etymology

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Noun

emergency medical technician (plural emergency medical technicians, abbreviation EMT)

2. (emergency medical services) An ambulance worker who works in patient stabilization and emergency transport. In some services, an EMT is a trainee who is not a paramedic; in other services, a paramedic is a senior-level EMT, sometimes called an EMT-P in contrast with an EMT-I, etc.

   Alternative form: EMT (initialism)

   Hypernyms: technician, first responder < worker < person

   Hyponyms: AEMT, EMT-B, EMT-P, EMT-I

   Coordinate term: EMR (“emergency medical responder”) (usually coordinate)

   Near-synonym: paramedic (sometimes broadly synonymous)

See also

• EMS, emergency medical services
• prehospital