I was less than subtle about my pleasure in finding this recording earlier in the week. If you are, or were a paramedic with NYC*EMS, or became one later with FDNY, this is the story of the beginning of your profession, told by the physician responsible for starting the program in 1974. Todays generation of NYC medics probably do not even know his name or the name of the members of that first class of paramedics. Here is your opportunity . You owe it to yourself to watch this. There were no paramedic textbooks, no State Exam, No MAC Committee or protocols, No Telemetry Control- in fact the radio system consisted of 1 portable for voice, and another to transmit the EKG back to Jacobis ED physicians. Equipment designed for hospitals being adapted or created for field use. The first monitor was the Lifepak 4. They were field testing the first portable Nitrous Oxide system.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 01:26:21 +0000
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