Ambulance

that are available are government EMS, the ambulances work alongside fire departments and police officers, but operate separately and are funded by the local or national government ("What is EMS? Department of Health). Fire and police services are also available, this is seen in many different countries that use separate services. Fire and police services are seen in rural areas where having two separate services…

year 1927, the Los Angeles Fire Department added Emergency Medical Services into their program. A few years later in 1931, already six LAFD ambulances were stationed around the metropolitan and around the shoreside area. Originally the EMS program was linked with the Los Angeles Police Department, which meant whenever the police got a call the ambulances would be dispatched from the Receiving Hospital Department which alongside with them. Later on EMS was transferred over and were at…

Speeding down highways and weaving in and out of traffic, ambulances come to our aid when needed the most. Throughout history and even still in today’s society, ambulances are the key tool in giving people the emergency help they need to survive. Over time the ambulance has evolved and its technology has advanced, giving more people a better chance at a good outcome. To begin, the concept of ambulances date back as early as 1487. Rooting from the word Ambulare, the Latin term meaning…

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ignore the amazing medical advancements made during this time. Some of the procedures of that time have influenced the way doctors treat patients today. For example, prosthetics were invented during the Civil War, which are still used today. The ambulance system was also created during the civil war, changing the way patients were transported, and helped them get care sooner which helped save lives. Lastly, the sanitary commission was created. During the beginning of the war many died from…

that the guidelines set out in the NEXUS criteria and The Canadian C-spine Rule do not always fit into a prehospital context. As a result of this ambulance services created their own guidelines to follow based upon the Canadian C-Spine Rule and the NEXUS criteria. An example of these is the cervical spine immobilisation procedure from Wellington Free Ambulance. This set of guidelines is based off the NEXUS criteria with influences from the Canadian C-spine rule and are used to determine whether…

know how to work in a small space and not have a fear of heights. Because, when it comes to this job, Traveling comes from a simple Ambulance to a Helicopter ride. When a patient needs to be transported in aircraft, the time will be decreased in traveling to a local hospital. But safety risks are increased, putting your life more at danger then it would be in an ambulance. But ALL paramedics and EMTs have to be okay with that and be determined to get that patient to and fro,…

in tort. SHERLOCK V AMBULANCE Duty Kent v Griffiths - the ambulance was distinguished from other public services - it is seen as an extension of the National Health Service, which owes a DoC towards its patients. Once the ambulance accepted Sherlock’s call and sent an ambulance, it was providing a service to that individual and crucially the individual could be harmed as a result of the ambulance’s negligence. Breach In the above case, the reasonable time for an ambulance to arrive was 14…

asleep when our front tire blew. We swerved to the side of the road and hit a big oak tree. I quickly got out of the car and opened the driver's door to see if my girlfriend wasn't hurt, thankfully she wasn't./ She immediately started calling for an ambulance and I lit a joint to try to calm myself down. I looked at the tire and it seemed to have torn due to glass ripping my tire. I assumed it was just teenagers since this part of the country is not a bad place to have a party and maybe it got…

Switching out the nearly empty boxes, I drop a single small glove on the floor of the ambulance, and as I bend down to pick it up, I see the young boy whose parents called 911 at 3:00 in the morning because he woke up in respiratory distress. When my crew and I got him inside the shockingly bright, unfamiliar ambulance, he was so terrified that he began to cry uncontrollably, only adding to his breathing problems. As his oxygen levels dropped, I reached…