Vital EMS’ personnel are trained to provide superior advanced medical care. In addition to those basic and enhanced skills normally provided, advanced life support personnel provide highly developed patient assessments, peripheral intravenous cannulation, administration of medications, intravenous infusion pump utilization, blood glucometry, advanced airway management including intubation and ventilator monitoring & management, pulse oximetry, needle chest decompression, needle cricothyrotomy, intraosseous cannulation and infusion, defibrillation/cardio-version, ECG rhythm/arrhythmia recognition with treatment and external trans cutaneous pacing. Vital EMS is certified for the CPAP and ventilator-dependent patient as well.
All Vital Emergency Medical Service Paramedics are trained and certified to the Specialty Care Transport level, allowing Vital Emergency Medical Service to routinely transport patients of critical status at an advanced scope of practice with medications and equipment not routinely initiated or used at the Paramedic level.

