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Originally Posted by WilliamTomFrank
How do you decide who drives the ambulance?
Is a person assigned to always drive or do you take turns?
Or is it just who gets there first?
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Out here in Arizona most all ambulances are ALS (1 EMT and 1 Medic) unless they are solely interfaculty (2 EMTs). In Arizona, the state does not certify below the EMT-B level (there is no state first-responder (NREMT-FR)), therefore, to be one an ambulance out here you have to an EMT.
The EMT drives to and from the call in most all cases. This allows the medic to review their field guide on the way in, so if the call comes in as a ped code, what size tube does he want, how much of what drug does he want etc (its saves scene time if he knows without thinking once he gets there what he wants to grab).