Fifty Years of Modern EMS: Looking Back at the Paper That Started It All: Accidental Death and Disability still greatly influences EMS today.

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Fifty Years of Modern EMS: Looking Back at the Paper That Started It All: Accidental Death and Disability still greatly influences EMS today.

EMS World. 2016 Oct;45(9):50-52

Authors: Ferbrache C

Abstract
For the most part EMS, despite all of its challenges, has kept up with the needs of its communities and adapted to its role as a de facto safety net. When the white paper was written, treatment for the injured varied radically from the state to state and city to city. While some may feel the white paper was not the impetus for all the changes outlines, it's difficult to argue these changes would have happened as quickly without such and influential document. We must keep its findings in mind to stay at the forefront of prehospital advancements, as opposed to reacting as a necessity of survival.

PMID: 29949691 [PubMed]

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