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unusual facts about Emergency medical services


Motorola Minitor

The Motorola Minitor is a portable, analog, receive only, voice pager typically carried by fire, rescue, and EMS personnel (both volunteer and career) to alert of emergencies.


DAP Helicópteros

5 MBB Bo 105CB-4 for Emergency medical services operations; three are based at Santiago-Lo Aguirre helipad while one is based at Punta Arenas and one in Antarctica.

Deseado

A Tasmanian Police Kawasaki BK 117 rescue/Emergency medical services helicopter had earlier winched off the owner-yachtsman in 8 m waves on 16 April 2006 (Easter day), after he set off his EPIRB (radio beacon).

Emergency medical services in Italy

Emergency medical services are under Public Health Authorities control in each Italian Region; the ambulance subsystem is provided by a variety of different sources.

Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance

The Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance is an organisation providing emergency medical services through the provision of a helicopter air ambulance covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in the South East of England.

World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

According to Peter Safar, the idea for what was to become the Club of Mainz and eventually WADEM was first proposed by Rudolf Frey in 1973 at an international symposium on emergency medical services in Mainz, West Germany.


see also

Dan K. Morhaim

He has had numerous other activities, including: Medical director, Region III, for the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services System (MIEMSS) from 1982–1989; Fire Surgeon for Baltimore County since 1982; member of the Maryland-Kuwait Health Care Task Force (to Kuwait & Saudi Arabia, April 1991); physician at Indian Health Service Hospital (Navajo), Chinle, Arizona from 1991–92.

James Page

James O. Page (1936–2004), American authority on emergency medical services

Safety of emergency medical services flights

Emergency medical services (EMS) aviation operations (conducted with either helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft) provide an important service to the public by transporting seriously ill patients or donor organs to emergency care facilities.