This video is cool

[Just Plain Ruff]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnYeUHyZv_o

It's Johnny and Roy in Paramedic school and then a Public service announcement. It's really neat.

[scubanurse]

Very cool!

[paramedicmike]

Narrated by Jack Webb. I kept waiting for the Dragnet references.

[island emt]

Jack Webb was on of the creators of the show and a producer.

[Generic]

Here is a good website about the origins of paramedicine.

http://www.pioneersofparamedicine.com/

Video:

[Caduceus]

That was a cool video!

[hertzvanrental]

The POP video was great. What a great bunch of doctors. I know it was about US prehospital care but it's a shame they didn't get together with likes of Professor Douglas Chamberlain who was a cardiologist in Brighton, UK. He had a similar idea in the late 60's but due to politics couldn't the programme up and running til the early 70's. He's our honorary medical advisor still. Had the privilege of being taught thrombolysis etc by him. Wonderful man as I'm sure his American counterparts are

[hertzvanrental]

The first paramedics are trained in England - British heart Foundation

The first paramedics are trained in England

A traumatic episode at a patient's home leads to a new training course for paramedics in England.

In 1965 we helped Dr Frank Pantridge to launch the world's first ambulance-based resuscitation service in Belfast. Four years later Brighton-based cardiologist Professor Douglas Chamberlain was inspired to build on Pantridge's work after a catastrophic consultation in a patient's home:

'As I examined the patient's chest he apparently died. I started vigorous chest compressions and commanded his wife to dial 999. After what seemed a very long time I heard the two tone of the ambulance. The driver came in and I said, "Where's the defibrillator?" He said, "We don't have it. We have to report back to the Medical Officer of Health who will decide whether to send the coronary ambulance."'

After another wait, the right vehicle actually arrived. The defibrillator was brought upstairs, plugged in and turned on, 'and there was a great explosion,' remembers Chamberlain. 'Clearly water had got into it. I later learned that where it was kept had a leaky roof. It was quite a major bang, a lot of smoke. It was an awful thing; it haunts me still.'

The day after watching his patient die in such awful circumstances, Chamberlain told the Medical Officer of Health he wanted to shake up the system and train ambulance staff to do what Pantridge was doing in Belfast. 'And so we took the first six people from Brighton ambulance station in the first week of July 1970, and I very quickly had a six-month course mapped out. So by the end of 1970 we had six trained men - we didn't call them paramedics then. I went on giving that course for 26 years, every six months.'

Such schemes multiplied through the 1970s and 80s, maturing into a national training scheme.

Image: Professor Douglas Chamberlain

The first paramedics are trained in England - British heart Foundation - 50th anniversar