page_title: Paramedics in Germany
hierarchical_section_title: Paramedics in Germany
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Versorgung eines Notfallpatienten durch eine Rettungsmannschaft des Malteser Hilfsdienstes (Hinweis: Die Szenerie ist gestellt!)
context_page_description: Paramedics in Germany are the main providers of emergency care in emergency medical services in Germany. There exist two professional levels regulated by federal law, the Rettungsassistent and the Notfallsanitäter.
  Both are able to provide the first level of pre-hospital emergency care. Additionally, they can get backup by an emergency physician on scene. Thus the German paramedic scope of skills include a set of advanced life support treatments, which they have to perform until an emergency doctor is on scene. Then the paramedics act under direct medical supervision of the physician.
  Non life-threatening emergencies are handled solely by the paramedic ambulances without a physician on scene.
  Other regulated qualifications in German EMS are Notarzt and the more basic emergency technician level Rettungssanitäter.
context_section_description: Paramedics in Germany are the main providers of emergency care in emergency medical services in Germany. There exist two professional levels regulated by federal law, the Rettungsassistent (two year education, effective 1989 until 2013) and the Notfallsanitäter (three year education, starting 2014).
  Both are able to provide the first level of pre-hospital emergency care. Additionally, they can get backup by an emergency physician on scene. Thus the German paramedic scope of skills include a set of advanced life support (ALS) treatments, which they have to perform until an emergency doctor is on scene. Then the paramedics (and other medical staff on scene) act under direct medical supervision of the physician.
  Non life-threatening emergencies are handled solely by the paramedic ambulances without a physician on scene.
  Other regulated qualifications in German EMS are Notarzt (emergency physician) and the more basic emergency technician level Rettungssanitäter.
caption: German paramedic (right) and prehospital physician (left) assess a patient
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