A brief history of EMS, where EMS is today, and where EMS may be heading.

1. CaptainAlanRomaniaGuadalupeFireDepartment

2. INTRODUCTION

5. WHERE HAVE
WE COME
FROM?

6. THE GOOD SAMARITAN

7. THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALER

8. NAPOLEONIC WARS

9. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

10. CIVILIAN AMBULANCES

11. MODERN EMS SYSTEMS

12. WORLD WAR II & KOREA

13. “THE WHITE PAPER”

14. WHERE
WE ARE
TODAY.

15. EMS ACT 1973

16. GOVERNMENT EMS SERVICES

17. FIRE BASED EMS

18. HOSPITAL BASED EMS

19. PRIVATE EMS

20. AIR MEDICAL SERVICES

21. VOLUNTEER RESCUE SERVICES

22. FRANCO-GERMAN SYSTEM

23. WHAT DOES
TODAY LOOK LIKE?

24. OVERLOADED
EMERGENCY
ROOMS

26. AMBULANCE
WAITING…

28. WHERE
ARE WE
HEADED?

29. NEW IDEAS

30. FOLLOW-UP

31. ALTERNATIVE
RESPONSE UNITS

32. ALTERNATIVE
DESTINATIONS

33. ALTERNATIVE
TRANSPORT METHODS

34. ALTERNATIVE
TRANSPORT
METHODS

35. NEW
PROTOCOLS

37. Questions?