word | paramedic |
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definition | A specially trained medical technician licensed to provide a wide range of emergency services before or during transportation to a hospital. |
eg_sentence | Five ambulances had already arrived, and a dozen paramedics were crouched over the victims with bandages and IVs. |
explanation | In ground warfare, wounded troops must usually be transported from the front lines back to field hospitals, and trained paramedical personnel—that is, nondoctors, usually known as medics or corpsmen—were first widely used in such situations. It took many decades for the wartime model to be applied effectively to ordinary peacetime medicine. With advances in medical technology (such as defibrillators, for restarting a heart after a heart attack), paramedics became an essential part of emergency medicine, and today hundreds of thousands of people owe their lives to paramedics. Paraprofessionals who work only in hospitals and clinics usually go by other titles |
IPA | ˌpɛrəˈmɛdɪk |
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