HISTORY OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES

Emergency Medical Services

EMS stands for Emergency Medical Services. Every country has some sort of extended pre-hospital setting which generally we call the EMS. in this blog we are going to learn the history of the EMS system and how it came to become an integral part of the hospitals. 

We will know what are the different parts of the EMS system that works when we call our local emergency helpline!!!!!


How It Started.....

The concept of bringing care to the sick or injured dates back to Roman times. However, today’s EMS systems have their roots in legislative and clinical developments of the 1960s and 1970s. 
Interesting to note that at that time there were very few types of equipment and facilities available and noteworthy to say tech was not too developed.
Most of the ambulances were of funeral homes and very few amounts of them had stretchers. in the underdeveloped parts of the world, the situation was even worse. Thus healthcare was a very scarce piece of luxury that not many could have. 

In Belfast, Northern Ireland, J. F. Pantridge began using a physician-staffed mobile coronary care unit to extend cardiac care into the prehospital setting. By doing so, he was able to reduce mortality among myocardial infarction(heart attack) patients.

The 1970s became something of a Golden Age for EMS in the United States. The U.S. Department of Transportation developed curricula for emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and first responders. EMS communications systems were formalized. 

As time passed there were more advances to the EMS facilities including trained EMS personnel and the use of quality technology

That was a brief history of the EMS services and in the next, we will see the components of the same. Until then stay healthy and safe. share and inform others too. 


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