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first recorded use of mouth-to-mouth ventilation, involving a coal miner in Dublin.
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Although the Romans and Greeks used chariots to remove injured soldiers from the battlefield, most
credit Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey, chief physician in Napoleon’s army, with institution of the first
prehospital system designed to triage and transport the injured from the field to aid stations -
In the United States, organized field care and transport of the injured began after the first year of
the Civil War, when neglect of the wounded had been abysmal. -
Hospital interns rode in horse drawn carriages designed specifically for transporting the sick and
injured. -
Civilian ambulance services in the United States began in Cincinnati and New York City,
respectively. Hospital interns rode in horse drawn carriages designed specifically for transporting the sick and
injured. -
The first volunteer rescue squads organized in Roanoke, Virginia, and along the New Jersey coast.
Gradually, especially during and after World War II, hospitals and physicians faded from prehospital practice,
yielding in urban areas to centrally coordinated programs.
