Baltimore Pioneers Emergency Ambulance Techniques and Equipment
NOT TOO MANY YEARS AGO, standardized first aid courses taught along American Red Cross lines often were considered to be adequate training for crews on ambulances and other emergency vehicles. With today’s advancing medical knowledge and increasing population, as well as the attendant rise in traffic and the number of highways, this hit-or-miss training technique no longer suffices.
Baltimore, Md., the first city to place its emergency ambulance service under the direction of the fire department, answered 37,199 calls for assistance with its fleet of 12 ambulances in 1963. This compares with 5,000 runs made by five ambulances the first year the ambulance service was under the fire department’s jurisdiction.
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