Ekg Technician Salary In Ky

Ekg Technician Salary In Ky is $50,000 annually on average. The highest paid Ekg Technicians make $65,000, while the lowest paid make about $30,000. The median pay for an Ekg Technician is $52,500 per year. The typical hourly pay for an Ekg Technician is $24.15 and the typical salary for a full-time Ekg Technician ranges from $40,000 to $60,000 per year.

   Ekg Technician Salary In Ky

EKG Technician salary in Kentucky

How much does an EKG Technician make in Kentucky?

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The average salary for a ekg technician is $22.67 per hour in Kentucky. 2 salaries reported, updated at May 18, 2022.

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Highest paying cities for EKG Technicians in Kentucky

1. San Francisco, CA$29.79 per hour7 salaries reported
2. New York, NY$28.27 per hour11 salaries reported
3. Philadelphia, PA$25.75 per hour7 salaries reported

1. Atlanta, GA$25.63 per hour5 salaries reported
2. Houston, TX$24.93 per hour6 salaries reported
3. Las Vegas, NV$24.02 per hour6 salaries reported

1. Louisville, KY$23.20 per hour5 salaries reported
2. Jackson, MS$23.07 per hour5 salaries reported
3. Baton Rouge, LA$22.91 per hour5 salaries reported

Louisville Metro Emergency Medical Services is the primary provider of pre-hospital life support and emergency care within Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky. LMEMS is a governmental department that averages 90,000 calls for service, both emergency and non-emergency, each year.

The current agency executive head is Edward J. Meiman, III and the chief of service is Colonel Jesse Yarbrough, EMT-P.

Contents
1 History
1.1 City of Louisville
1.2 Jefferson County
1.3 City-County Merger and Louisville Metro EMS
1.4 2015 Restructuring
2 Services
2.1 Skills
3 Structure
3.1 Ranks
3.2 Union
4 Mutual aid
4.1 Fire service
4.2 Other ambulance services
5 Specialized teams
6 Deployment
6.1 Equipment
6.1.1 Ground transportation
6.2 Area of responsibility and divisions
6.3 Continuity of coverage
7 Communications
7.1 Two-way radio
8 Response
8.1 Area Hospitals
9 See also
10 Notes
11 References
12 External links
History

LFD (left) and JCEMS (right) ambulances at UofL Hospital
Louisville Metro EMS has its history rooted in the two major EMS providers that served the area since the earliest days of pre-hospital care of the 1970s.

Police officers transferred the severely ill or injured to hospitals in Louisville and Jefferson County until 1972 when the Jefferson County Medical Society created the first EMS service.[1] The first licensed paramedics in Kentucky graduated in 1975 from a pilot program at Louisville General Hospital, now University of Louisville Hospital. Included were fifteen City of Louisville EMS paramedics and one Jefferson County Police officer paramedic.

City of Louisville
Further information: Louisville EMS and Louisville Division of Fire
Louisville police officers transported patients for many years until Louisville EMS (LEMS) was created in 1974. The Park-Duvalle Neighborhood Health Center In 1968 provided ambulance service first to just patients with in their service area,then eventually to the city. The service was taken over by Louisville government. The program was operated by the city and Robert Shaver PhD was recruited as its founder and first Director, as well as Director of Public Health, and disaster planning, and was the first EMS service provided in Louisville. Dr. Shaver created a unique first response system staffed by registered nurses who were housed in Medi-cars and operated under the guidance of advanced medical directives. In 1995 the city transferred EMS duties to the Louisville Division of Fire in an effort to streamline emergency services in the city.[1] The EMS bureau of the Louisville Division of Fire utilized firefighters cross-trained as EMTs and paramedics as well as non-firefighting personnel.

Jefferson County
Further information: Jefferson County EMS
Jefferson County EMS had its beginnings in the now-defunct Jefferson County Police Department. Beginning with police officer paramedics in 1975 and eventually evolving into non-law enforcement personnel assigned only to providing emergency medical care, the Emergency Medical Squad of the county police became Jefferson County Emergency Medical Services (JCEMS) in 1987.

JCEMS provided emergency medical services to all areas within Jefferson County outside of the cities of Louisville, Anchorage and Jeffersontown. JCEMS always fielded ambulances containing at least one paramedic. The JCEMS Disaster Response Team (DRT) responded to all hazardous materials and technical rescue incidents within Jefferson County outside of the City of Louisville. After the creation of LMEMS all hazardous materials responsibilities, along with specialized vehicles and equipment, were transferred to the Jefferson County Fire Service.

City-County Merger and Louisville Metro EMS
The merger of the governments of the City Louisville and Jefferson County took place on January 6, 2003. The most visible (and publicized) merger activity of the new government was the integration of the county and city police forces. No pre-merger preparations were made in regards to emergency medical services. Immediately after the merger, the Louisville Fire Department EMS and Jefferson County EMS continued to operate separately as before. The new Metro Mayor, Jerry Abramson, eventually appointed a task force to review the current EMS practices and determine in what manner EMS will be provided in the new consolidated government.[2] The fire services in Louisville-Jefferson County were (and still are) unable to be combined as nineteen of the twenty fire departments are independent of Metro government and were not subject to any merger legislation. The findings of the EMS task force presented several methods of EMS delivery. Included ideas were retaining two separate services, tasking the Louisville Division of Fire to provide EMS coverage to the entire city-county, the subordination of EMS duties to another “parent” organization such as the police or health departments, or the creation of a stand-alone department. After much debate, the mayor’s office chose to create a new department and Louisville Metro EMS was created on February 5, 2005, by the combining the Louisville Fire Department EMS Bureau and Jefferson County Emergency Medical Services.

2015 Restructuring
In February 2015, with the departure of Dr Neil Richmond, the agency’s first executive head, Metro Government combined the emergency medical services with Emergency Management Agency to create “Louisville Metro Emergency Services.” Emergency Services combines 911 call-taking, all radio dispatching, and LMEMS into a single agency. The new agency, despite its inclusive name, does not include the police or fire department which remain entirely separate. The job of chief executive officer, heretofore both the agency director and the medical director, was eliminated and the jobs again separated. The executive assistant director of Emergency Management Agency was given ultimate charge of LMEMS and a part-time physician hired to perform medical direction.

Services
LMEMS is a full-time provider of Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Life Support (ALS) and is accessible through the 9-1-1 system. LMEMS employs an entirely full-time workforce of Kentucky-licensed Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) and paramedics (also known as EMT-Ps). Most employees maintain optional certification by the National Registry of EMTs,[3] a national EMS accreditation association.

LMEMS provides transportation to the emergency department of the chosen hospital. LMEMS does not return patients home nor does it offer transportation to immediate care centers or hospitals without emergency departments. All scheduled ambulance service and inter-facility transports are handled by private ambulance companies retained by the patient. Only under exceptional circumstances will LMEMS provide hospital-to-hospital transfers.

Skills
Louisville Metro EMS utilizes two levels of care providers. EMT-Basics (referred to as technicians or EMTs) and EMT-Paramedics (usually just called paramedics) have drastically different scopes of practice but all exist to provide care and transportation to the sick and injured. A technician specializes in ambulance operation and basic life support care as well assistance to advanced providers. Most technicians have an initial six months of training receiving at least 110 hours of formal classroom training, often reaching or exceeding 120 or 168 hours, with some training institutions requiring initial unspecified numerous clinical hours within a hospital. Basic Emergency Medical Technicians are required to pass skills training and are required to challenge the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians exam to become NREMT certified. Paramedics use complex diagnostics, perform medical procedures, and administer medications and additional advanced care that would otherwise only be provided by an emergency physician. Paramedics in Kentucky generally have three years of initial training including at least 750 hours of internship and clinical instruction in addition to about 1200 hours of formal, classroom instruction. An increasing number of paramedics possess at least an associates degree, many have bachelor’s degrees.

Technicians are trained to operate independently of a paramedic, and when such situations arise they are capable of caring for and transporting any medical emergency to the hospital on their own.

Although the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services allows for the use of EMT-Intermediate providers, LMEMS does not utilize this mid-level of care provider.

Treatment issue Emergency Medical Technician skills (EMT / technician) Paramedic skills (paramedic / medic)
Airway management Assessment, manual repositioning, oro- and nasopharyngeal airway adjuncts, manual removal of obstructions, suctioning, King LT-D blind insertion airway device (BIAD) tracheal intubation (oral and nasal), advanced airway management for endotracheal tube, tracheostomy. Deep suctioning, use of Magill forceps, surgical airways (including needle cricothyrotomy)
Breathing Assessment (rate, effort, symmetry, skin color), obstructed airway maneuver, passive oxygen administration by nasal canula, rebreathing and non-rebreathing mask, active oxygen administration by Bag-Valve-Mask (BVM) device, pulse oximetry Active oxygen administration by endotracheal tube or other device using BVM, colometric, side stream, or inline end tidal carbon dioxide (EtCO2) capnography. Use of mechanical transport ventilators (rare), active oxygen administration by surgical airway, decompression of chest cavity using needle/valve device (needle thoracostomy)
Circulation Assessment of pulse (rate, rhythm, volume), blood pressure, skin color, and capillary refill, patient positioning to enhance circulation, recognition and control of hemorrhage of all types using direct and indirect pressure and tourniquets Ability to interpret assessment findings in terms of levels of perfusion, obtaining intravenous access (IV), intravenous fluid replacement, vasoconstricting drugs, intraosseous (IO) cannulation (placement of needle into marrow space of a large bone). Access central venous catheters or peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC).
Cardiac arrest Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), airway management, manual ventilation with BVM, automatic external defibrillator (AED), ResQPod thoracic impedance device, LUCAS 2 Chest Compression System Device Dynamic resuscitation including intubation, drug administration (includes anti-arrhythmics), 12-lead ECG interpretation, manual defibrillation, synchronized electrical or chemical cardioversion, and external cardiac pacing
Cardiac Monitoring 12-lead ECG BLS acquisition. Monitor interpretation only. 12-lead ECG monitoring and interpretation including modified chest leads, right-sided leads, and posterior adjunctive leads.
Drug administration Oral, nebulized, auto-injector or intramuscular, intranasal Intramuscular and subcutaneous injection, intravenous and intraosseous boluses and infusions, endotracheal tube drug administration, rectal tube, and umbilical venous access.
Drug types permitted Low-risk/immediate requirements e.g. oxygen (hypoxia), aspirin and assisted nitroglycerin (chest pain/angina equivalent), oral glucose (low blood sugar), epinephrine auto-injector or intramuscular (allergic reaction), albuterol (asthma), antidotes (naloxone for opiate overdose), Analgesics for pain, antiarrhythmics (irregularities in heartbeat), cardiac resuscitation drugs, bronchodilators (for breathing), vasoconstrictors (to improve circulation, e.g. dopamine, Pitressin, epinephrine), atropine for slow heart rates, anticonvulsives (for prolonged seizures), antidotes (naloxone for opiate overdose), dextrose 50% in water (low blood sugar), sodium bicarbonate (acidosis)
Patient assessment Physical assessment, auscultation, ‘vital’ signs, history of general and current condition, considers differential diagnosis, determination of transport and appropriate hospital, pulse oximetry, glucometry More detailed physical assessment and history, auscultation, interpretation of assessment findings, ECG interpretation, glucometry, capnography
Wound management Assessment, control of bleeding, application of pressure dressings and other types of dressings, splinting and immobilization Pain management