Mobile Intensive Care By "Unemployable" Blacks
Mobile intensive care by "unemployable" blacks trained as emergency medical technicians (EMT's) in 1967-69.
Don M Benson, Gerald Esposito, Jerry Dirsch, Raymond Whitney, Peter Safar
Journal of Trauma, May 1972, 12(5), pp. 408-421.
Download as a pdf: trauma1972-bensonemt.pdf (1.6 MB).
Contents of pdf file
1 Intro | 408 |
2 Training | 408 |
2.1 General education | |
2.2 Emergency medical technicians training | |
2.2.1 Pre-clinical training | |
2.2.2 Clinical experience | |
2.2.3 Guided field experience | |
2.2.4 Resuscitation and life support drill | |
2.2.5 Ambulance service administration | |
2.2 On-the-job experience | |
2.3 Advanced training in cardiac care | |
3 Results | 414 |
3.1 Training results | |
3.2 Ambulance design and equipment | |
3.3 Communications | |
3.4 Service results | |
3.5 Organizational, sociologic, financial, and political considerations | |
4 Conclusions | 419 |
5 Summary | 419 |
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