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David R. Boyd (born February 2, 1937) was an American surgeon and pioneer in emergency medicine. Boyd is considered to be one of the "fathers of EMS systems." [1] His colleague John Otten noted that Boyd "had been responsible for saving thousands of lives - more than anyone in the medical profession."
In the United States, the licensing of prehospital emergency medical providers and oversight of emergency medical services are governed at the state level. Each state is free to add or subtract levels as each state sees fit.
The system was called the Division of Emergency Medical Services (now known as the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services and Systems). Also in 1969, Cowley obtained a military helicopter to assist in rapidly transporting patients to the Center for the Study of Trauma (now known as the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center ), a ...
[3] [4] It was renamed Oregon Health Sciences University in 1981. [5] 1981 was also the year that OHSU was designated [6] a Level 1 trauma center: one of only two in the state of Oregon. [7] [8] In 1995, OHSU became a public corporation [9] separate from the Oregon State System of Higher Education. Dispensing with the Board of Higher Education ...
The show's technical advisor was a pioneer of paramedicine, James O. Page, [18] then a Battalion Chief responsible for the Los Angeles County Fire Department 'paramedic' program, but who would go on to help establish other paramedic programs in the U.S., and to become the founding publisher of the Journal of Emergency Medical Services. [19]
Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center is a 188-bed teaching hospital located in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1913, it is the only hospital in the city. The hospital operates a level II trauma center, and serves the Linn, Benton, and Lincoln County area. It is one of only 6 level II trauma centers in the State of Oregon. [1]
Legacy Emanuel Medical Center is a hospital located in the Eliot neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States.Founded in 1912, it is one of only two Level I trauma centers in the state of Oregon, [i] and home to the only burn center between Seattle and Sacramento. [6]
R Adams Cowley (July 25, 1917 – October 27, 1991) was an American surgeon considered a pioneer in emergency medicine and the treatment of shock trauma. [1] Called the "Father of Trauma Medicine", [2] he was the founder of the United States' first trauma center at the University of Maryland in 1958, after the United States Army awarded him $100,000 to study the effects of shock in wounded ...