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800 BCE
Ancient Greek and Rome
Ancient Greek and Roman armies employed military and civilian personnel on the battlefield. During war, wounded soldiers were treated and transported away from the combat zone for care by the employed military and civilian personnel. -
460 BCE
Hippocrates
Founder of medicine and regarded greatest physician of his time. Medical practice based on observations and studies and on human body. Believed illnesses a physical and rational explanation. -
129
Galen
Roman physician who studied the four bodily fluids. Believed an imbalanced of one of these corresponded with a particular human temperament -
1000
Story of the Good Samaritan
A story from the bible about a Samaritan who stopped to care and transport a man injured on the road -
1099
Hospitaller Knights
Pope Gregory had a hospital built but was destroyed years later in 1005. It was built again after eighteen years and had the Hospitaller Knights to administer medical assistance to wounded soldiers during battle. -
1258
Medical stagnation
After Baghdad was destroyed by the mongols, scholars who were able to flee, took documents and books with them to the west. Much of the knowledge from documents were lost and the quality of the medical practitioners were poor. -
1487
The Spanish
Ambulances were used for emergency transport but were called ambulance wagons. Ambulance originally meant a moving hospital which follows an army in its movements. -
William Tossach
Documented his own successful case of mouth to mouth. Britain started performing mouth to mouth after William Tossach's documents and by promotion by John Fothergill and other enthusiasts. -
Amsterdam
Amsterdam had the first humane society who first promoted expired air ventilation by the mouth to mouth method. -
Civilian Rescue Society
Shipwrecked people were looked after by the first civilian rescue society. -
Dominique-Jean Larrey
Given credit for 'inventing' the ambulance. Designed the Ambulance Volante or flying ambulance to evacuate casualties from the battlefield. -
The Times
The Times had said ambulances were very helpful since it saved a lot of time which meant the patient could be cared for more. With the use of ambulances, hospitals were able to space further apart from each other -
First civilian ambulance
America's first ambulance service is instituted by the U.S. Army. -
NYC
New York City had America's first city ambulance by Bellevue Hospital -
Michael Reese Hospital
Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago used the first motorized ambulance. -
Royal Flyin Doctor
Australia had a royal flying doctor service, still in use today, were they used airplanes to transport the ill and injured patients in Australia's outback to major cities for care. -
Different business
There were five different types of businesses as off shoots of the modern day EMS. These businesses were towing operators, medical equipment companies, funeral homes, hospitals, and police/ fire departments until funeral homes started patient care and provided nearly half of the country's ambulances. -
Helicopter use
During the Korean war, helicopters were used for medical evacuations. -
HeLa cells
Henrietta Lacks was a cancer patient who had tissue samples taken without her knowing. When these samples were studied they noticed that some cells were not dying, and to this day are still not, and are considered immortal. They are called HeLa cells for the initials of the cancer patient. -
Mouth to mouth
The mouth to mouth resuscitation was developed by Dr. Elam and Dr. Safar. Elam was the first to prove expired air was important to maintain adequate oxygen then two years later with Safar, invented mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. -
Defibrillator and CPR
Researchers at John's Hopkins Hospital developed the first portable defibrillator and also perfected CPR -
NHTSA
President John F. Kennedy declared that the greatest of the nation's public health problems was traffic in 1960. Then Lyndon B. Johnson and the president declared it as the modern society's neglected disease and the National Highway Traffic Safety Act was adopted and standardised EMS training and other help for traffic control.
