Airborne Care of the Ill and Injured

From the unique position of a decade in government service, I was given the opportunity to observe the changes in the provision of emer­ gency medical care across the country. In 1970, Emergency Medical Service (EMS) systems were a new and much needed development in the national health care delivery system. A systems approach to field casualty care has been progressively improved during each successive military conflict since the Civil War. These improvements were ini­ tiated after the rned...