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He initiated the Freedom House Enterprise Ambulance Service, one of the first prehospital emergency medical services in the United States in 1967 and together with Dr. Nancy Caroline, developed standards for emergency medical technician (EMT) education and training, as well as standards for mobile intensive-care ambulance design and equipment. [7]
In 1967, he began training unemployed African-American men in what later became Freedom House Ambulance Service, [4] [5] the first paramedic squadron in the United States. [6] [7] Dr. Eugene Nagel trained city of Miami firefighters as the first U.S. paramedics to use invasive techniques and portable defibrillators with telemetry in 1967. [8]
[2] [5] Such services provided, at most, basic first aid and rapid transportation to a hospital. [2] [5] [4] In police-operated ambulances, the ambulance crew would typically load the patient into the back of a police van, and rush to the hospital. [2] The U.S. medical system had yet to incorporate advances in emergency care made in battlefield ...
BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado paramedic was sentenced Friday to five years in prison in a rare prosecution of medical responders following the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name ...
Nancy Lee Caroline (June 27, 1944 – December 12, 2002) was an American physician and writer who worked in emergency medical services (EMS). She was medical director of Freedom House, an emergency ambulance service that assisted underserved populations in Pittsburgh in the 1960s and 1970s.
Missouri officials are mourning the death of a 27-year-old paramedic. Michael Clarke was working on the advanced life support unit at Station 12 in St. Peters on Monday, Oct. 14, when an emergency ...
Cichuniec was a paramedic with Aurora Fire Rescue in 2019 when he responded to the scene where McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, had a confrontation with police.
James O. Page JD (August 7, 1936 – September 4, 2004) was recognized as a leading authority [1] on United States emergency medical services ().James was born in Alhambra, California, and frequently moved between California and Kansas as a youth.