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O*NET detailed work activityTreat medical emergencies
Stays humanHands-on care
19 jobs24 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Administer emergency medical treatment, under the O*NET work activity group Assisting and Caring for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 24 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Stabilize patients in critical condition.
- Administer first aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured persons in prehospital settings.
- Perform emergency resuscitations on patients.
- Perform emergency invasive intervention before delivering patient to an acute care facility.
- Perform emergency pharmacological interventions.
- Provide emergency care, such as artificial respiration, external cardiac massage, or assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition-stabilizing interventions.
- Initiate emergency interventions to stabilize patients.
- Provide emergency or other appropriate medical care to participants with symptoms or signs of physical distress.
- Perform emergency cardiac care, such as cardioversion and manual defibrillation.
- Provide emergency treatment of facial injuries including facial lacerations, intra-oral lacerations, and fractured facial bones.
- Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.
- Identify and respond to emergency physical or mental health situations.
- Perform medical procedures, such as administering oxygen, inserting and removing airways, taking vital signs, or giving emergency treatment, such as first aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
- Respond to emergency situations by providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), or pediatric advanced life support (PALS).
- Administer emergency first aid, such as performing emergency resuscitation or other life saving procedures.
- Administer emergency cardiac care for life-threatening heart problems, such as cardiac arrest and heart attack.
- Administer first aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured persons in prehospital settings.
- Perform emergency diagnostic and treatment procedures, such as stomach suction, airway management, or heart monitoring, during ambulance ride.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Monitor patients for changes in status and indications of conditions such as sepsis or shock and institute appropriate interventions.
- Diagnose or treat complex, unstable, comorbid, episodic, or emergency conditions in collaboration with other health care providers as necessary.
- Respond to emergency situations by providing airway management, administering emergency fluids or drugs, or using basic or advanced cardiac life support techniques.
- Administer first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation to injured persons or provide emergency medical care such as basic or advanced life support.
- Perform physical examinations, make tentative diagnoses, and treat patients en route to hospitals or at disaster site triage centers.