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It was easier in the good old days.
“We just threw the patient in the back and drove like hell,” reminisced an old timer. He had just helped transport a patient to the hospital by ambulance, and was tilling out the numerous forms required by today's standards.
In the “good old days" rescue squads existed primarily to get critically ill people to the hospital as fast as possible. Most ambulance drivers and emergency medical technicians had minimal training beyond basic first aid. Their main job was to pick up the patient and, with sirens screaming and horns blarinft drive to the hospital as fast as the equipment could go.
Today transport is only part of the picture. EMTs and ambulance drivers are highly trained and certified. Ambulances are equipped with tens of thousands ot dollars of modem medical equipment, even a portable EKG machine. Rescue squads must follow standards and regulations (including the required paper work) set by the medical profession, federal and state agencies—even Homeland Security~the county, and other groups. This means that patient care begins when the squad team walks through the door, and, if necessary, continues until the patient is turned over to the hospital doctors in the emergency room.
All rescue squads and fire companies in Rappahannock County are stuffed entirely by volunteers. In addition to responding to calls 24-hours a day and participating in training, the volunteers maintain and clean the equipment and
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