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Do these studies mean you want a BLS truck for your mother while she chokes on a piece of meat firmly stuck in her larynx where only direct visualization will save her? A BLS truck to the soccer field when your kid forgets his inhaler and has an asthma attack? A BLS truck when your daughter develops severe anaphalytic shock at school? What about when your wife has chest pain where the medic could have done a 12 lead and determined STEMI and brought her to the cath lab when instead she is brought to the local doc in the box ER and dies from cardiac arrest?
Here in Rural Alberta, I work on a BLS car. There is myself and my partner who are both EMT-A's (equivelant of EMT-I in the states). Other than direct visualization of airway blockage and 12 leads, I have protocols and training in place to treat each of these pts to maximize a positive outcome. I'm allowed to give nebulized bronchiodilators. With online medical control, I am allowed to give Epi for Anaphylactic reactions. I'm allowed to give ASA and Nitro for cardiac chest pain.