EMS - Emergency Medical Services

Yancey EMS Truck

Our Emergency Medical Services objective is to provide quality, efficient, and professional emergency services to the citizens and visitors of Yancey County, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

In Emergency Medical Services, all personnel must be trained to handle a variety of emergency situations. Countless hours are spent each year in training insuring that the citizen of Yancey County are cared for in the upmost professionally and as compassionately as possible.

  • Our paramedic staff are NCOEMS Certified.
  • Yancey County runs two paramedic team in each EMS Unit.
  • Our team consists of 37 paramedics.
  • Yancey County is running 3 - 24-hour trucks.
  • Yancey County responds to approximately 4500 calls per year with 3 - 24-hour trucks.

Critical technical skills that our EMS personnel possess and include:

  • Basic Life Support
  • Advance Life Support
  • Pediatric Advance Life Support
  • Internal Trauma Life Support
  • Emergency Medical Services (EMS) procedures and operations
  • Critical Care
  • Tactical Emergency Casualty Care
  • Wilderness ALS
  • K9 Deputy ALS

Currently our paramedic personnel are trained and able to perform the following skills:

  • 12 Lead ECG interpretation
  • Central Venous Catheter Access
  • Oral Tracheal Intubation
  • Intraosseous Access
  • Drug Assisted Airway
  • Nebulizer Inhalation Therapy
  • External Cardiac Pacing
  • Blood Glucose Analysis
  • Oral/Nasogastric Tube Insertion
  • Needle and Surgical Cricothyrotomy
  • Synchronized Cardioversion
  • Intravenous Access
  • Chest Needle Decompression
  • BIAD

Inside EMS Truck