title: Advances in pre-hospital care: the technology of emergency medical services.
abstract: These four examples of technology and its relationship to pre-hospital care will be reviewed: portable defibrillators, pneumatic antishock garment, 911 systems with computer-aided dispatch, and aeromedical transport.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80220.
authors.forename: P T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Pons
mesh_terms: D000401:Aircraft; D004554:Electric Countershock / Q000295:instrumentation; D004631:Emergency Medical Service Communication Systems; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D005676:Gravity Suits; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014187:Transportation of Patients; D014481:United States