Title: Describe the local EMS system.
Course: Emergency Medical Telecommunications (14055-V) > Section: Introducing Emergency Medical Dispatcher Roles and Responsibilities

Description should include

- arrangement of the components of the local EMS system
- the tiered EMS structure
  - emergency medical responder (EMR)
  - basic life support (BLS)
  - advanced life support (ALS)
- medical resources available in the local EMS system
- resources dispatched in a special situation and ways to access these resources
- state or local code that defines the EMS system
- hot response modes
- cold response modes.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are the levels of the EMS system?
- How do the levels of the EMS system work together?
- What are the local preconfigured response modes?
- What is the difference between a hot and a cold response?