Advanced Life Support (ALS) encompasses a range of critical medical interventions designed to manage life-threatening conditions in pre-hospital settings. This includes advanced airway management techniques, comprehensive cardiac monitoring, and the administration of pharmacological agents to stabilize patients. Not to be confused with Basic Life Support (BLS), ALS is typically employed by trained firefighter/medics operating within frameworks such as the Incident Command System (ICS) to ensure coordinated emergency response. In EMS contexts, it is commonly framed alongside structured communication and triage concepts such as START (Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment) or SALT (Sort, Assess, Lifesaving interventions, Treatment/Transport) as shared terminology.
Category context: Patient care, assessment, interventions, triage, and EMS system terms commonly used by firefighter/medics.