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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