History of Emergency Medical Services in the U.S.

Question 1

What is the long-term result of the push by federal agencies during the 1960s and 1970s regarding improvements in medical technologies, transportation, and medication? (Check all that apply.)

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Cardiac and trauma services are much better today than they have ever been.; There is a reduced need for federal oversight of these services today.

Question 2

Read the following text from the National Institute of Health (NIH), which shows the impact of the 1972 Committee on the Costs of Medical Care that created Regional Medical Programs (RMP) to organize and disseminate health care advances across the nation. RMPs had a tremendous impact upon the development of EMS. RMP funding helped create a number of EMS systems and train emergency medical technicians. The primacy of heart disease, cancer, and stroke within the RMPs was impressed upon EMS, resulting in a system designed to combat these conditions. The concept of regionalized health care became commonly accepted in EMS. For example, taking trauma or burn patients to specialty centers became expected of EMS providers. Finally, the delivery of technologically advanced intensive care to patients located throughout a region, a core role of EMS, reflected the philosophy of RMPs. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Based on your reading of this excerpt on the value of how RMP improved EMS, what happened to EMS services in the mid-1960s? (Click all that apply.)

Revolt · Accepted Answer

New technology in radio communication would allow EMS to serve a much wider regional area.; An increase in traffic accident awareness would lead to increased funding for technologically advanced medical equipment for EMS.

Question 3

Which of the following describes the milieu that eventually led to a much more adequate EMS system? Select all that apply.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

increased concern for traffic accidents; increased attention on and care of heart, stroke, and cancer victims; the government’s activity in raising consciousness and addressing ways to solve health and safety issues; increasing immediate care and so decreasing mortality rates for wounded soldiers in the Vietnam War

Question 4

What major medical achievement occurred in the 1960s as a result of medical care improvements?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

50% reduced death rate from traumatic accidents

Question 5

What did the Highway Safety Act of 1966 do for the growth of EMS? (Check all that apply.)

Revolt · Accepted Answer

standardized treatment and equipment; established training standards for emergency personnel; placed penalties on states that did not comply

Question 6

After the Civil War in the late 1800s and before the government stepped in to oversee providing emergency services to civilians, what organizations, issues, and individuals helped to pave the way for the institution of EMS services in the 1960s? Select all that apply.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

morticians; fire departments; hospitals

Question 7

The medical experiences in the Civil War advanced medicine in the United States.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Which of the following best describes Napoleon Bonaparte’s place in the history of EMS? (Check all that apply.)

Revolt · Accepted Answer

He asked physician, Jean Dominique Larrey, to conceive a system for treating soldiers.; He asked his best doctors to ride with him into battle so they could see what soldiers needed.

Question 9

In 1966, how did the United States compare with other countries in emergency care?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

the USSR was well ahead of the United States with providing emergency care in 7 minutes; the United States lagged well behind other countries

Question 10

The word “ pediatric” pertains to senior citizens.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

False

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